| SURNAME | AREA | CONTACT | DATES
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| | RABY, John | John and his son John William, Family were originally boatbuilders in
Ely but had moved to Kings Lynn by the 1881 census. John William married
Mary Agnes Barnard who was a railway signalman's daughter
Area Ely and Kings Lynn | Susanne Ellingham | 1870 -1940
| | READ | SOMERSET/DEVON | Shirley Yalden | PRE 1890
| | REW | ASHBRITTLE/SOMERSET | Alan Jones | ANY
| | REW | ALL | Alan Jones | ANY
| | REWE | ASHBRITTLE/SOMERSET | Alan Jones | ANY
| | REWE | ALL | Alan Jones | ANY
| | REYNOLDS | SOMERSET | Shirley Yalden | PRE 1880
| | RICKARDS | ALL | Allan White | ANY
| | RICKARDS, John | shown as GWR Bridge Painter in 1901 living Durham Rd, Newport, S.Wales | Allan White | ALL
| | ROLLE | DEVON | Sheila Yeo | ALL
| | ROTHWELL, James | My ancestor James Rothwell was born in Turton, Lancashire in 1818. Two sons were born in Bolton, another in Crewe, a daughter in Romford, a daughter in Portsea and two more children in Brighton, Sussex.
In the 1861 census, James wife is described as a rail labourer’s wife but there is no sign of James in this census. (She is not a widow.)
I found James in his retirement in 1852 with the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, Hammerman, Loco Department. This from Find My Past.
Two of his sons, James and George (my ? grandfather) followed in his footsteps, although George became a boiler maker (probably working in Portsmouth dockyard because he and his family ended up in Bermuda dockyard (wish we still had the land he owned…)
I would be very grateful if you could give me any guidance as to what railways James might have been employed by so I can proceed further.
| Sherley Presland | 1818-1900
| | ROWE, Mesiah | b1851 Gt Gaddesdon, Hertfordshire, d1904, Hunslett, Yorkshire
1881 Census he was a Railway Porter at Hunslett, Yorkshire | Mr P J Stevens | 1851-1904
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