Many thanks for this one Andy, I certainly found it very interesting account of a person's life....and hope to fit him into my Leng family before too long! My researched Leng's are a great deal earlier so now I shall have to go the other way into the future to see if I can see where he sits in the family grouping. Your hard work over the years is much appreciated and I had all of the notes saved until a computer crash two weeks ago and lost the lot....but thankfully can go to the website and find them again. Phew! All the best, Noelene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Sefton" <andy@andysefton.fsnet.co.uk> To: <ENG-NORTH-YORKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 7:56 AM Subject: RE: [N'Yorks] Malton Messenger BMD's 24th December 1864 > Thanks to all the kind messages I have received. I was surprised no one > picked up on this super entry I posted for 3rd December 1864 in the Deaths: > > It gave me an evocative feeling of a Dickens novel: > > "On the 28th ult., at Malton, Mr Robert LENG, woodturner, aged 66. Deceased > for many years has been totally blind and being gifted with no ordinary > musical ability, attained great proficiency on various instruments. As a > vocalist he also excelled; and all our townspeople will have vivid > remembrance of his nightly perambulations of the town, during the Christmas > season each year. So far as he is concerned, the Christmas carols will no > longer be heard in Malton." > > Back soon with 1865. > > Andy Sefton > >