A visit to Herefordshire Record Office may prove fruitful. A search on their catalogue (at A2A) for CRANSTON shows lots of references. Of particular interest may be amongst the Breinton parish records "notes on Cranston Family of Kings Acre" > From: philbufton@hotmail.com> To: eng-hereford@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 19:30:38 +0100> Subject: Re: [HEF] James CRANSTON/E fl 1764> > JK,> > The person you need is David Whitehead, author of Parks and Gardens in > Herefordshire, as far as i know not on e-mail, but search for the above > should give you some leads.> > Phil Bufton> > > --------------------------------------------------> From: "J K gen" <gen2mail@googlemail.com>> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:36 PM> To: "eng-hereford-l" <eng-hereford-l@rootsweb.com>> Subject: [HEF] James CRANSTON/E fl 1764> > > Does anyone have any information on the early life of James> > CRANSTON/E? He is purported to have been a London land surveyor, who,> > in 1764, established a nursery for growing trees in King's Acre, Hereford.> >> > Does anyone know who he married?> >> > I have an outline of the family from the later 1700s to about the turn> > of the 19th/20th century, but cannot seem to find a connection to> > London - other than the "London land survey" description.> > JK> > ---- ENG-HEREFORD Mailing List ----> > A genealogy and local history list covering the County of Hereford> >> > -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ENG-HEREFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message> > > ---- ENG-HEREFORD Mailing List ----> A genealogy and local history list covering the County of Hereford> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-HEREFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Win Indiana Jones prizes with Live Search http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000002ukm/direct/01/

Thank you to all who sent information re CRANSTON, I am most grateful. Have e-mailed Hereford record office with a view to them doing a little light research for me - shall enquire about books too. I should have checked A2A myself - thank you for reminding me David forgetful JK On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:44 AM, david jones <mrdavejones@hotmail.com> wrote: > A visit to Herefordshire Record Office may prove fruitful. > > A search on their catalogue (at A2A) for CRANSTON shows lots of references. > Of particular interest may be amongst the Breinton parish records "notes on Cranston Family of Kings Acre" > > > >> From: philbufton@hotmail.com> To: eng-hereford@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 19:30:38 +0100> Subject: Re: [HEF] James CRANSTON/E fl 1764> > JK, > > The person you need is David Whitehead, author of Parks and Gardens in > Herefordshire, as far as i know not on e-mail, but search for the above > should give you some leads.> > Phil Bufton> > > --------------------------------------------------> From: "J K gen" <gen2mail@googlemail.com>> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:36 PM> To: "eng-hereford-l" <eng-hereford-l@rootsweb.com>> Subject: [HEF] James CRANSTON/E fl 1764> > > Does anyone have any information on the early life of James> > CRANSTON/E? He is purported to have been a London land surveyor, who,> > in 1764, established a nursery for growing trees in King's Acre, Hereford.> >> > Does anyone know who he married?> >> > I have an outline of the family from the later 1700s to about the turn> > of the 19th/20th century, but cannot seem to find a connection to> > London -! > other than the "London land survey" description.> > JK>