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Working Lives: Huddersfield and District Family History – A Governess and a Rural Policeman

Mon 15 Sep 25
Mon 15 Sep:1530-1700; Free Entry. Holmfirth Library, 47 Huddersfield Road, Holmfirth HD9 3JH Heritage Open Day: Maureen Wheeler of the Huddersfield and District Family History Society lets us into the lives of 2 Nineteenth Century characters in the Holme Valley. An opportunity to find out about the lives of two working people in the Holme Valley in the Nineteenth Century in a presentation by members of the Huddersfield & District Family History Society. We will explore the life of a local governess who arrived as a young woman from Northamptonshire to work for a Honley family. The research will look at her background, her training, her links to Honley and, unusually for most governesses, her marriage to a local man. In contrast, we will follow the career of a rural policeman working in the villages around Holmfirth... READ MORE>

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