Identifier: devoncornwallnot06amer (find matches)
Title: Devon & Cornwall notes & queries
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Amery, John S
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Publisher: Exeter, England : J.G. Commin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 157 also filled the Municipal Offices of Auditor, Councillor,Alderman, and Mayor of Launceston. From 1874 tohe held the office of Town Clerk, which he resigned in thelatter year. In 1847 he married Anne Sophia, daughterof John and Mary Smith, by whom he had four children,Apsley Petre, Claude Hurst, Otho Bathurst, and AdelineMary. During the whole of his life he took a keen interest inthe material improvements at Launceston as to its roads,and markets, the abolition of the turnpike toll, restoration ofthe Church, building the School House, the Guildhall, theSouthgate Arch and Museum, excavations of the Priory andsimilar public works. At an early age Mr. Peter developed a taste for certainbranches of learning. He acquired some knowledge of theHebrew, Chaldee, Latin and French languages, and tookevery opportunity of examining old Charters and ancientmanuscripts, and became an authority of considerable repu-tation in the West. It is said that a transl

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