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The "prosperous and slightly criminal half century" life of Ravenser Odd.

Content note: Grimsby.

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I seem to remember there was somewhere off the coast of Norfolk or Suffolk at some point where new mothers went to register their births as it was unparished, so they didn't have to acknowledge the father. The memory is a bit of a muddle, but I can't find any reference to it.