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From: "Moira Bue" <>
Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Literacy in Scotland
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:57:36 +0500


.... It's not a difficult issue to resolve. If any of you care to go through the ships' registers for immigrants to the US and also the US censuses it is easy to pick up on the relative literacy of immigrants from different countries. There is an old lending library in Crief, Innerpeffray Library, which was opened ca. 1680 and its records show that the lenders came from all classes. moira

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Shaw" <>
> To:
> Subject: [MIDLOTHIAN] Literacy in Scotland
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:30:30 +1200
>
>
> The recent statement in this list "In the UK, before the late
> 1800's, the majority of people could not read or write, so those
> individuals would not know how their name had been recorded, and
> they might never have had the opportunity to read the relevant
> entry anyway. "
> needs some comment.


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