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Description:Wills and their accompanying inventories of goods and chattels, are an excellent source of information for family, social and economic history. A will can provide all kinds of useful information about family relationships and the social and economic status of the testator, that is the person making the will. In addition before 1750, an itemised inventory of the goods of the deceased was drawn up by between two and five unbiased persons called appraisors, overseers or supervisors. The inventory includes all the moveable goods, including there appropriate household goods, clothing, stock-in-trade, farm stock, growing and cut corn, loose money and any rent and debts due but it does not include land.
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The village of Kinver is situated in the south-west corner of Staffordshire and is dominated by Kinver ...
Holy Austin Rock is possibly named after a former hermitage built into the sandstone cliffs of Kinver ...
Trade directories such as this are a very useful source of information, providing details of principal ...
Census returns are among the most useful sources of historical information about places and households. ...
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