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- Northgate and Tower Streets
Launceston Businesses
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- East Cornwall Bank Company
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- Selina Wadge
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Brian Gairns
24th January 2022 @ 10:35 am

I have just discovered that my parents were working as cook and footman at Penheale Manor when they married in 1940. Do you have any records? They were Marjorie Smith aged 32 and Stewart Gairns aged 26.

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