Hello All, A very informative short story of the beginnings of the work in the Fens and I for one wish to thank Lynda for all the information. Like many of us, I was aware of some of the details but now feel more comfortable with a more complete story. Imagine being the very first Huguenots to arrive in the area ? Are there records which show just who they may have been ? Kind Regards, Peter Leroy

Hallo everyone, I have recently purchased a couple of very interesting little booklets: Title: The River Makers Author: Trevor Bevis ISBN: 0 901680 66 4 Publisher: Trevor Bevis BA, 28 St. Peters Road, March, Cambs. PE15 9NA Tel: 01354 657286 Price: £3.95 Description:Linked Huguenot and Walloon colonies anciently at Sandtoft (North Lincolnshire) and Thorney (North Cambridgeshire) and secondary settlements at Parsons Drove and Guyhirn. With account of Dutch and Scottish prisoners and their forced labour in the reclamation of the Cambridgeshire Fens. Title: Water, Water Everywhere Author: Trevor Bevis ISBN: 0 901680 46 1 Publisher: Trevor Bevis BA, 28 St. Peters Road, March, Cambs. PE15 9NA Tel: 01354 657286 Price: £3.90 Both booklets are about 40-50 pages. The first one contains extracts of Dutch and Walloon names taken from the 'lost' Sandtoft Baptismal Register. The second one contains some interesting maps relating to Vermuydens scheme in about 1642. Both booklets are excellent. Suzie Morley in Suffolk, England Looking for: ALLISON, BRADLEY, MILLER (in London) JEE/GEE, HOLLAND, KIRKMAN, MORLEY, RUSHTON, SPICE (in Lincolnshire) TABOURDEUX, TOUCHARD, URAND (Anywhere) > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 17 November 2003 01:36 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [HWE] Drainage of the Fens > > > Hello All, > > A very informative short story of the beginnings of the > work in the Fens and I for one wish to thank Lynda for > all the information. Like many of us, I was aware of > some of the details but now feel more comfortable with > a more complete story. > > Imagine being the very first Huguenots to arrive in the > area ? Are there records which show just who they may > have been ? > > Kind Regards, > Peter Leroy > > > ==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== > Website for the Huguenots-Walloons-Europe list at: http://www.island.net/~andreav/index.html Lots of information, links to other sites, surnames list. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237