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Persons Covered
Apart from reports of trials, genealogical information to be found in newspapers relates to fairly well-defined social groups. First, then as now, the doings of the nobility were of general interest, and their births, marriages amd deaths are extensively covered. Next in terms of coverage are the merchant and professional classes of the towns in which the newspapers were published. These would include barristers and solicitors, doctors, masters of schools, military officers and clergy, as well as the more prosperous business people. It should be remembered that, from about the 1770s, this would include the growing Catholic merchant class.
Next are the farming gentry from the surrounding areas. After them come the less well-off traders, traceable largely through advertisements. Finally, the provincial papers also cover the inhabitants of neighbouring towns in these same classes, albeit sparsely at times. No information is to be found concerning anyone at or below middling farmer level, the great bulk of the population in other words. This remains true even from the third and fourth decades of the nineteeenth century, when the number of announcements rose markedly, and the social classes covered broadened somewhat.
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