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John William Adams

William Adams was born about 1774. He married Martha Tribe on the14th February 1804  at St Marys Church, Portsea. A son, John William Adams, was born in 1805. John William married Susanna Fabian in  St Thomas’s Church, Portsmouth in 1828. Four children were born to them before they migrated to South Australia on HM ship […]

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Cosham High Street

Stables at the rear of the George and Dragon

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Portsmouth in the Future

Some predictions of Portsmouth beyond the year 2000, made in 1967 as part of a study by the Portsmouth Junior Chamber of Commerce. Lifestyle: It is visualised that homes will have a deep freeze unit attached to micro-wave or infra-ray cookers so that when the household returns home for a meal, the food will be […]

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