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From: "Mike Worsley" <>
Subject: remittance man
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 22:47:48 -0000


Dear Listers,

Someone has asked me if I knew what the term 'remittance man' meant in respect to an ancestor of theirs. One idea was that it might be that the ancestor had done something unacceptable in England, and the family had then paid him to stay overseas.

Thanks in anticipation,

Mike Worsley

Fareham,
Hants.

Researching WORSLEY in Hebden/ Grassington and Hope/ Eyam (Derbyshire)
also BIRCH in Bolton Abbey

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