The following publications are all available from Peggy Day, 8 Orchard Street, Quy, Cambridge CB5 9AE. Life in Quy from the beginning of Time to the Year 2000 Peasants to Labourers: Quy 1714 to 1830 Quy in Early Victorian Times 1830-1854 Letters from Home: Quy in 1944 More letters from Home: Quy at the end of the War. January - August 1945 The History of Quy School Memories of Quy School Quy Village Hall 1920-1980 Stow-cum-Quy. Booklet. Stow-cum-Quy through two 25-year reigns Bill's Country Poems The Formation of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary 150 years ago Staine Hundred Chronicles Peggy Day has lived in Quy all her life and has copies of the church registers from 1600 as well as census returns from 1841 to 1891 and has family trees for many of the 19th Century families. If you think she can help with your family history please contact her at the above address or send an e-mail to Bill.Watts@btinternet.com Return to Local History Page
Peggy Day also writes as Peggy Watts
Text by Peggy Day, drawings by Jim Watts. 70pp inc 63 illustrations. £3.00 + £1.00 p&p.
Text by Peggy Watts. 54pp. £2.50 + 60p p&p.
Text by Peggy Watts. 73pp. £2.50 + 60p p&p.
Letters by Kitty Watts, edited by her daughter. 46pp. £2.50 + £1.00 p&p.
Letters by Kitty Watts edited by her daughter. 78pp. £3.00 + 60p p&p.
Text by Peggy Day. 38pp. £1.00 + 50p p&p.
Edited by Peggy Day, drawings by Jim Watts. 25pp. £1.00 + 50p p&p.
Text by Peggy Watts. 16pp. 50p + 50p p&p.
A selection of facts and history first written in 1970 but updated in 2001. 16pp 50p + 50p p&p.
1020-1935 &1952-1977. 17pp. 50p + 50p p&p.
By Bill Watts. 60pp. £3.50 + 60p p&p.
By Peggy Watts. 56pp. £3.00 + 60p p&p.
Compiled by Peggy Watts. News extracted from the Cambridge Weekly papers for the villages in the Staine Hundred: Bottisham, Lode with Longmeadow, Quy, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior with the hamlet of Reach, Great Wilbraham, Little Wilbraham with Six Mile Bottom.
1854 19pp £1.00 + 50p p&p
1884 37pp £1.00 + 60p p&p
1894 55pp £1.00 + £1.00 p&p
1904 61pp £2.50 + £1.00 p&p
1914 67pp £2.50 + £1.00 p&p
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