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Chartist children: radical naming practices and a thousand boys and girls called Feargus

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James Grassby 1805 – unknown

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William Paul Dowling, 1824-1877
Artist, Irish Confederate and London Chartist

The Evening Star
Feargus O’Connor’s Chartist evening newspaper

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