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379:"a number of little known and mostly obsolescent place-names, which, though they are a department of philology from one point of view, from another epitomize many of the motives of a bygone social life, not excepting its customs and superstitions."
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in 1876, of Manx and Welsh descent. Much of his youth was spent with his maternal grandfather, named Jones, a director of the North and South Wales Bank in
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