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Joshua Kirby (1716-1774)
Born at Parham, Suffolk in 1716, second of the eleven children of John Kirby (1690-1753), schoolmaster and surveyor, and his wife Alice née Brown (1685/6–1766). Educated at home at Wickham Market, Suffolk and Joshua assisted his father in his book, The Suffolk Traveller (1735) and a map of Suffolk (1736). In 1739 he married Sarah (c.1718–1775), daughter of Abraham Bull of Framlingham and lived at Ipswich, where he had already joined a hous (showing 500 of 4404 characters). |
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