Thank you - my local library has one of his books available 'Old Herbaceous' (sp?) - which I will definitely be reading, as well as the info. on Google. Thanks again. - Joy > To: eng-wiltshire@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:03:24 +0000 > From: jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com > Subject: [ENG-WILTSHIRE] Information about Reginald ARKELL and his works (was The Round House (1958) ...) > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:47:17 -0000, Joy Beaton <joy_beaton@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > Just a question - was Reginald ARKELL connected to John ARKELL and > > Thomas ARKELL, who came to Canada. I am going to try and track down a > > copy of this book. > > Hi Joy, > > There is a Wikipedia page on Reginald ARKELL, which gives the year of the > author's birth as 1882 and his birthplace as Lechlade, Gloucestershire, > which is near this county's border with Wiltshire. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Arkell > > You should be able to find his family in the censuses. > > The Wikipedia page also gives a long list of his works. I had one of the > three books of his poems with Green Fingers in the title, when I was young. > > If you put "Reginald Arkell" into Google, there are lots of hits on his > name. > > Josephine > > -- > Josephine Jeremiah > www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WILTSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message