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An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth century. Throughout the early modern period, Scottish society was constructed around an expectation of social conformity: people were required to operate within a relatively narrow range of acceptable identities and behaviours. Those who did not conform to this idealised standard, or who were in some fundamental way different from the prescribed norm, were met with suspicion. Such individuals often attracted both criticism and discrimination, forcing them to live confirmed to the social margins. Focusing on a range of marginalised groups, including the poor, migrants, ethnic ...
John Moule (1807-1880) was born in Cambridgeshire, England, probably in the hamlet of Kneesworth. He died in London, Ontario, Canada. In 1833 in York (now Toronto) he married Catharine Barbara (Katie) Scanlan (1814-1884), the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Scanlan. She was born in Limerick, Ireland. John Moule immigrated to York in 1828. They had thirteen children, nine of them grew to maturity and left descendants scattered around the United States (Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York etc.) and Canada.