Gant family from Brandon, Suffolk

Many of the female descendants of Francis Gant of Weeting, Norfolk  worked as furriers in Brandon, probably not the most pleasant of occupations as the job involved skinning the local rabbits! Lingwood’s Hat and Fur Factory in Brandon Extract From White’s 1844 Suffolk Directory BRANDON, a well-built market town, noted for gun-flints, whiting, rabbit-skins, and [...]

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