On 30 Dec 2010 at 15:49, Jean Wood wrote: > > Well, perhaps you are also related to the famous Judge --- I grew up > in Winchester and the Bloody Assizes of 1685 were notorious and we > were taught about them from very early days. There is even a shop > which boasts that a platform was built out from their first floor > level to create the scaffold. > Surely you mean Dorchester, don't you, Jean? That was where the Bloody Assizes were held. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE