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Hucksters REPLY TO mariew

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A little off topic but...  Wasn't a Huckster someone who sold all manner of things from say a street corner shop, or off the street maybe, might you be using the terms in the wrong context. I dont want to seem pedantic, but it might help mariew, it might be that the business was a Hucksters & Grocers rather than it being named so? Hope you understand my meaning?  O0
 
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Yes I think you are right, I have only been doing the family tree for 3 and a half years and there is so much I have got to learn.
 
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this cutting was from Kelly's 1915
there was no National Health Service at the time you are referring to so they would have gone to the workhouse infirmary for treatment
 
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How happy you have made me John, I knew I could rely on you to give me the answer yet again. Thank you.
 
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I forgot to ask you john is there anywhere I can look to find a photo of this shop as you seem to know the right places to look, I am not that clever on the computor I have to keep asking my daughter for help.
 
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this is from Kelly's 1908 so he bought the shop between 1903 and 1907 as there was no shop in 1903, as for a photograph of the shop you would have to be very lucky to find a photograph. a hucksters shop would have been most probably a converted house usually the front room with the living quarters in the back
second cutting Kelly's 1903
 
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