The Speculum Gregis
"An Account of all the Inhabitants of the Parish of Croydon in the County of Cambridgeshire commencing from 1 January 1843"
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| The
Reverend Francis Fulford
was appointed Rector of
Croydon-cum-Clopton in Cambridgeshire in July 1841,
remaining in that parish for four years. In January 1843 he
began to compile a list of inhabitants adding their ages,
occupations, literacy and church attendance as well as some
'off the cuff' comments. The notebook - a ‘Speculum Gregis’
- or
‘Mirror to the Flock’
- was updated by his successor, the
Reverend R S B Sandilands until 1848, when it was put away
with other parish documents, and eventually after the
departure of the last resident Rector, was deposited in the
Cambridgeshire Record Office (P 53/1/11). |
| A transcription of the ‘Speculum Gregis’ was published as
‘The Rector and his Flock’
in 1980 by David Ellison and Bassingbourn Booklets. |
| This new updated and corrected online version of the Speculum Gregis’ has the original Fulford preface, the Ellison introduction, a new transcription (both basic and annotated), additional genealogical information, a detailed alphabetical index of names, and background material on the Reverend Francis Fulford, the village Rector who went on to become the first Bishop of Montreal in Canada. |
The Speculum Gregis website was incorporated
within the Wimpole Past website, February 2021. |
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