Publications

Local Publications

The following publications are all available from Peggy Day, 8 Orchard Street, Quy, Cambridge CB5 9AE.
Peggy Day also writes as Peggy Watts

Life in Quy from the beginning of Time to the Year 2000
Text by Peggy Day, drawings by Jim Watts. 70pp inc 63 illustrations. £3.00 + £1.00 p&p.

Peasants to Labourers: Quy 1714 to 1830
Text by Peggy Watts. 54pp. £2.50 + 60p p&p.

Quy in Early Victorian Times 1830-1854
Text by Peggy Watts. 73pp. £2.50 + 60p p&p.

Letters from Home: Quy in 1944
Letters by Kitty Watts, edited by her daughter. 46pp. £2.50 + £1.00 p&p.

More letters from Home: Quy at the end of the War. January - August 1945
Letters by Kitty Watts edited by her daughter. 78pp. £3.00 + 60p p&p.

The History of Quy School
Text by Peggy Day. 38pp. £1.00 + 50p p&p.

Memories of Quy School
Edited by Peggy Day, drawings by Jim Watts. 25pp. £1.00 + 50p p&p.

Quy Village Hall 1920-1980
Text by Peggy Watts. 16pp. 50p + 50p p&p.

Stow-cum-Quy. Booklet.
A selection of facts and history first written in 1970 but updated in 2001. 16pp 50p + 50p p&p.

Stow-cum-Quy through two 25-year reigns
1020-1935 &1952-1977. 17pp. 50p + 50p p&p.

Bill's Country Poems
By Bill Watts. 60pp. £3.50 + 60p p&p.

The Formation of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary 150 years ago
By Peggy Watts. 56pp. £3.00 + 60p p&p.

Staine Hundred Chronicles
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

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

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