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Tag: Women’s History Month

  • The Elusive Potters of Goulbourne

    The Elusive Potters of Goulbourne

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    Patricia Greber
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    March is Women’s History month and I am plan to spend the month focused on finding the family of Mary Potter. Mary is my direct female ancestor and I know very little about her. The census records tell me she was born about 1805 in either Ireland or England. In 1834 at the Parish of…