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Scroll down for Family History and Highland Railway. Click for Single Malt Whisky ___________________________________________________________________________ FAMILY HISTORY I am a mixture of Scottish and Welsh grandfathers, and English grandmothers:  if only I had been good enough, I could have played rugby for any of these countries! So far, I have researched the following names: (click on those underlined in blue for more information, other pages being prepared: some of the unlinked can be found on the Other Families page.) ANDREWS/ANDERSON in Gaddesdens, Flamstead, HRT (and elsewhere ?) BALL in Stoke STS, Harwarden FLN COCK at Kintbury BRK EYTON/EATON in Bangor-on-Dee FLN and Ruabon DEN WLS FENSOM in Berkhamsted HRT FINCH in Wheathampstead HRT FOWLER in St. Albans, Berkhamsted HRT, and Edlesborough BKM GOLDING in Berkshire GOODWIN in Much Hadham, HRT KINGHAM in St. Albans, North Mymms HRT LAWRENCE in East Woodhay BRK MASSEY in Chester CHS, Ellesmere SAL, ENG, and Denbighshire, Flintshire WLS. Other general information also available McKAY, MacKAY in Tongue, SUT SCT NORRIS in Wheathampstead, the Gaddesdens, Widford, Much Hadham, HRT, Ivinghoe BKM RATHBONE in Cheshire ENG RICHARDSON in Audley, Peover, Ollerton, Knutsford CHS ROWLEY in Baldock, Much Hadham, HRT ENG ROSIER in Kintbury BRK ENG SNELLING in Hertfordshire - and where else ? SOLES of St. Albans HRT STIRRUP in Frodsham CHS SUTHERLAND in Tongue, SUT SCT SUTTON in Frodsham, CHS, ENG TASKER in Navenby, Wood Enderby LIN, Knutsford CHS, Harrogate WRY TUBB in Hamstead Marshall, Kintbury and Lambourn, BRK, ENG TURVEY in Berkhamsted HRT WATERTON in Berkhamsted and Tring, HRT and Chesham BKM ENG WOOD in Vernham Dean and Andover, Hampshire ENG I have many references and names of other reseachers for most of the above names:  Email me with your own lines and I shall see if I can link you with any of them, and perhaps save you some work. ___________________________________________________________________________ HIGHLAND RAILWAY and Highland Railway Society My interest in the H.R. goes back over 50 years, to the times I visited my Grandfather's ancestral croft at Tongue, on the north coast of Sutherland.  At the time we were living near London, and the journey was by the overnight "Royal Highlander" from Euston to Inverness, and then by another train on to Lairg.  From Lairg to Tongue the journey was by the daily mailbus, a combination of coach front half and mailvan rear, which stopped to deliver not only mail but bread, milk and other goods at many of the roadside crofts.  The complete journey from London took just 24 hours. I am now Membership Secretary of the HRS, for their Home Page click here. ___________________________________________________________________________ To discuss any item above, E-mail me.

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