{"id":706,"date":"2008-10-15T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:58:50","slug":"my-parents-visit-to-cambridge-and-parts-of-essex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/my-parents-visit-to-cambridge-and-parts-of-essex","title":{"rendered":"My Parents&#8217; Visit To Cambridge And Parts Of Essex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My parents recently visited Westminster College in Cambridge and viewed the original letters written in 1771 by John Dando (b. abt 1715) and Rev Rowland Hill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also visited Saffron Walden in Essex, seeing the Golden Butterfly confectionery and tobacconist shop where Mary Ann Free and Charles and Alice Dando lived and where their daughter, Ivy Alice Dando (my gran), was born. 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