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Humphrey Toms fonds
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- Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.
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Fonds
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RBSC-ARC-1556
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3.6 m of textual records
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Name of creator
(1911-1983)
Biographical history
Humphrey Toms was a plant pathologist at the Agricultural Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. He was also a genealogist who conducted research in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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The fonds consists of correspondence, copies of vital statistics records and parish registers, maps, family trees, wills and his personal notes on families in Devon and Cornwall collected as part of his genealogical research which centred principally on the towns of Stratton and Bude in Cornwall.
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Inventory available. PDF document attached.