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Paper, 'Extracts from the Parish Register, Holy Cross, Salford' by William Gorsuch

Reference number: L&P/7/231

Date: 1781

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Subject: Demography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An extract of the register of the parish of Holy Cross, Salop, being a third decade of years from Michaelmas 1770 to Michaelmas 1780, carefully digested in the following table'

Read 17 January 1782

Reference number
L&P/7/231
Earliest possible date
1781
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Extracts from the Parish Register, Holy Cross, Salford' by William Gorsuch, 1781, L&P/7/231, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_231/paper-extracts-from-the-parish-register-holy-cross-salford-by-william-gorsuch, accessed on 12 November 2025

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