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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">A couple more suggestions / comments from
the sidelines</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>RAS says "In 1777 the Cambridge Youths refer to "the printed register of
the society beginning in the year 1667, and regularly transmitted down to the
present time". </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Might be worth checking the British
Library's Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) for this. I had some
dealings with this project back in the 1980s and they uncovered and catalogued a
fantastic amount of C18th printed ephemera. I guess the database is probably
subsumed in the BL's main system by now - but worth enquiring</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Regarding the possibilities, I do think
that separation or divorce can be pretty much ruled out for Annable's parents.
It will probably turn out that the father died - though tracing burial records
(the IGI doesn't cover them really) is always tricky. There is a National
Burials index project, but not - unless I'm out of date - a single database or
search portal</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">The professor thing, too, has been
rightly scotched!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">CP</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>