Lowe, Roger ___ 1642-1679 ___ British ___ tradesman

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Roger Lowe was a shopkeeper in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. He was a sociable youth, knew everybody in town and the country round about, and having a little education in an illiterate community, was much in request for making wills, drawing up agreements, casting accounts, writing family letters, and love letters too'. His diary, which was kept somewhat irregularly, provides a lively picture of village social life.
A biography link
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DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1663-1674 ___ religious social village

WEB TEXT LINKS
etext
a few pages
 

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Wigan Archives Service

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
The Diary of Roger Lowe in Ashton-in-Makerfield
 

May 2005, July 2008, April 2013, June 2018
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.