Word: peterhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obedience to Taylor's new dogma, Exclusive landlords in the Scottish town of Peterhead evicted non-Brethren tenants; Exclusive fishermen fired crewmen who did not belong to the sect. Members of the sect were forced to leave their jobs in Midlands factories because Taylor's rules forbade them to join unions. Marriages have foundered on the doctrine of separation; in Walsall, for example, Businessman Leslie Pearson and his father-in-law Fred erick Jessop publicly complained that their wives would not even speak to them when the two men left the sect. In Staffordshire, two spinster sisters...
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