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From: graham dixon <>
Subject: [YKS] Newspaper Editor
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 10:03:36 +1200
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Hello Douglas
Thank you very much for this.
I'll be on to the FFHS booklet shortly.
Your answer is possibly much more important than just that though.
Can you put me in touch with your friend doing the PhD thesis please.
My gt gt grandfather's sister Mary Ann DIXON married a William Mortimer
BAINES in New Zealand and they moved back to England to take up an
inheritance, an estate at Narburn, south of York in the 1860s.
Edward is a name used often in this family so I would like to learn more
about Edward BAINES, editor of the Mercury.
Again, many thanks.
cheers
Graham Dixon
(Auckland, New Zealand)
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wrote:

>Hi Graham:The Leeds Mercury was one of the oldest local newspapers in the UK,founded before 1750.The Leeds Intelligencer(c.1777)became the YorkshirePost.
>A friend of mine is getting his PHD thesis published,which is on Edward Baines,the illustrous editor of the Mercury.
> A useful booklet was published in 1987 by the Federationof Family History Societies entilted
>Local Newspapers 1750-1920 and gives details about local newspapers throughout
>England and Wales.It probably is still inprint.
>Cheers
>Douglas(Leeds)
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>On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 19:43:14 +1200 graham dixon <> wrote:
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