Hi Phyllis Thanks for your reply. I've checked the Motorway Regulations and find that neither oxen drawn carts or pedestrians are allowed to use the motorways and therefore conclude that they must have used some other route!!! At present, I'm favouring the A5 suggestion but this may have prolonged the journey as there are so many sets of traffic lights on it. As for the Rotterdam lists, look again at the 5th Party...you'll find Johan Adam there! Keep well! Chris >From: "Phyllis Ryerse" <ryerse@bellsouth.net> >Reply-To: <ryerse@bellsouth.net> >To: IRL-PALATINE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [IP] London - Dublin in 1709!! >Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:39:01 -0400 > >Hi Chris! > >Gee whiz..........didn't they take the M40 out of London and head >northwest......getting off at the Chester Exit? (giggle giggle!) > >Well, who knows....that may not be so far off the truth! Many of the >early wagon ruts later became major roads!! > >I did read somewhere that it took nearly 100 wagons to haul them all up >there! That's pretty interesting too! Aren't there any early maps >from that era that might show you their route?? > > > >How 'ya been Chris?? > >Still digging around in the 'old stuff' eh! Me too, although I get >side-tracked now and then. > >Nothing new on our mysterious James, however I recently got the film of >the original 1709 Rotterdam emigration lists to see if I could find >Johan Adam's name. VERY difficult to look at....poor writing and some >of those pages had microfilmed almost black. I never found Johan >Adam......but I did find a Johan Ludwig who was probably our early >Ludwig fellow! Somehow it's satisfying to see their names written in an >old document like that. > > > >Well, carry on my friend! > >Phyllis > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Christopher Le Gear [mailto:chrislegear@hotmail.com] >Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:14 AM >To: IRL-PALATINE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [IP] London - Dublin in 1709!! > > > >Dear All > > > >In 1709 our forefathers travelled from London to Chester where they took > > >ship for Dublin. Does anyone know the route they took through England >to > >get to Chester??? > > > >Chris > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone >http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile > > > > > >==== IRL-PALATINE Mailing List ==== > >List Administrator: > >Susan Laursen Willig > >IRL-PALATINE-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > > >==== IRL-PALATINE Mailing List ==== >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the following: >IRL-PALATINE-l-request@rootsweb.com >Put either the word, subscribe, or unsubscribe in the subject line and body >of the message. > _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile