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Letter posted from Dulverton (Somerset, England) to Bristol (England) in 1894. The letter talks about searching the parish registers of St Peters Church in Tiverton, Devon for Pingston surname entries.

Scanned by Adrian Pingstone in March 2005 and placed in the public domain.

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Sept 26/94
My dear Father,
Arrived at Tiverton yesterday & found your letter awaiting my arrival. I then made straight for my customers so that I could spend an hour or so at St Peters Church which I did up to within 10 minutes of service being held when I had to clear out, but at any rate I have traced the registers back as far as 1733 & overleaf you will find a copy of as many Pingstons as I happened to come across. I have only noticed..................
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