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THE AUTHOR was born at Childs Ercall Heath. He attended Tibberton School and Adams Grammar School, Newport, and
he read History at Manchester University. After National « : Service in the KSLI and the Intelligence Corps, he worked for "
Royal Insurance for 37 years, serving in the insurance and IT areas and as a seconded representative to the trade union, MSF (formerly ASTMS). He is now retired and lives at Ormskirk. He married in 1968 and has two sons. His main interests, apart from history, are reading and listening to music.
The author has had a life-long interest in the estates of his native area and the families who owned them. Realising that information about the estates and families was often hard to come by, he developed the idea of compiling a book on the subject. The background knowledge of the subject has been built up over the last twelve years, but much of the material for the book has been gathered over the last three years at the new Shropshire Records and Research Centre at Shrewsbury.
The first volume of this series was published in 1997.
Price £8.50 ISBN 0-9530502-1-1
WILLIAM RUSCOE
LANDED ESTATES AND THE GENTRY
AN HISTORICAL STUDY OF THE LANDED ESTATES OF NORTH-EAST SHROPSHIRE
Anthony Ruscoe
Volume Two
High Ercall and Hodnet Areas