File 2 - Ampton press clippings (George Arthur Paley)

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Newspaper articles pertaining to Ampton, Suffolk, collected by George Arthur Paley (1874-1941), husband of Frances Mary Bernard of the Kirwan family and father of Percy Paley (see LE55/2/5). G.A. Paley was the owner of the Ampton Hall estate. Clippings include:
-undated article on a cricket match between Ampton and St. Andrew's Works;
-'Death of the Hon. Hedley Vicars Strutt', 23 January 1891 (Strutt was maternal uncle to G.A. Paley);
-'Ampton: Marriage of Mr. G.W.H. Smith and Miss F. Chilcott', 26 March 1909;
-'Beating the Bounds', 1911 (about the practice of walking the limits of the local parish);
-'Coronation Celebrations at Ampton', 7 July 1911;
-clipping detailing the results of cricket matches, 25 August 1911 (featuring Mr. G.A. Paley's XI versus Suffolk Borderers at Ampton);
-'Ampton: Death of Mr. Chilcott', March c. 1913 (about the passing of Jonathan Chilcott of Ampton, age 62);
-undated envelope addressed to 'The Hon. Mrs Paley' (Clara Paley, mother of George Arthur Paley) from The Englishwoman's Review, a feminist periodical published between 1866 and 1910 by Sidgwick & Jackson, London.

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