• page 3 refers to the Manor of “Critham”, which should read “Dritham”;
• page 3 claims that Effingham in Illinois was named after Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham,
but this is not the case – it was named after an English surveyor, General Edward Effingham;
• page 8 refers to “Mrs Forder”, which should read “Mrs Faulder” – the then Lord of Effingham East Court Manor,
Carolyn Mary (née Calburn) Faulder (today Bainton) who was one of the daughters of Charles Clement Calburn, in turn
one of the sons of Robert Reitmeyer Calburn;
• page 13 refers to “Mr Diamantide”, which should read “Mr Diamantidi”;
• page 21 gives the year of George Pauling’s death as 1918 – it was 1919;
• page 26 gives the surname of a head teacher at St Lawrence School as Pender – it was Spencer;
• page 32 gives the date when Effingham Woman’s Institute was formed as November 1919 – it was February 1919.