Thank you everyone for the correct name. No wonder I couldn't find it with putting the H in my search. I will check out all the excellent links and thanks for sending them. It is hard to imagine where places are when you are not familiar with a place. Samuel Bailey was a signalman working for the Midland and Great Northern Railway and was living in and working from a Railway supplied house at Front Road, Wisbech St. Mary. Cambs. He later moved to Walpole St. Andrew Norfolk. I doubt that this house will still be there, but if it was, it would be great to see what it was like. Regards, Nan Bailey On 13 August 2011 05:25, Jonathan Neville <jneville@digitalwild.co.uk>wrote: > It's most definitely the Midland & Gt Northern Joint Railway! > The H will have been a misprint (J & H are next to each other on a > keyboard!) > > Jonathan Neville > > > ———————————————–——————————— > Visit the Norfolk Mills website at www.norfolkmills.co.uk > Itteringham village website is at www.itteringham.com > and my African and Norfolk wildlife photos are at www.digitalwild.co.uk > > Although this email has been scanned by Sophos Anti Virus, > it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure > they have adequate anti-virus defences. > ———————————————–——————————— > > > On 12/08/2011 14:19, Nan Bailey wrote: > > I have found an ancestor working for the Mid and G N H Railway in the > 1911 > > census. I presume the initials GN stand for great Northern, but can't > work > > out what the other initial is for. Can someone please give me the correct > > name for the Mid and G N H Railway, so I can look up information on it. > > > > Thanks, > > Nan Bailey > > Qld Australia > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Nan, Idle curiosity prompted me to do a little digging. Google Map shows Front Road as being in Murrow - a little to the east of Wisbech St. Mary - you can view the entire road by using the Street facility. The 1901 census shows Samuel is resident at Sunnyside No. 2, Kiln House Lane, W.S.M. and in 1911 at Chestnut House, W.S.M. These properties may well still exist. Would suggest you check out this website: > http://www.wisbechstmary.org.uk/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1< which has a couple of photographs showing the Wisbech St. Mary Railway Station. There is history page that could be of interest and a contact link should you wish to pose a question or two. There is a photograph of the site of Murrow Station on this link: > http://myrailwaystation.com/FORMER%20LOCATIONS/pages/MURROW%20%20STATION%20%20%20Ex%20G_%20N_%20&%20G_%20E_%20Jt%20%20%20and%20%20M_%20&%20G_%20N_%20%201973_%20Photo%20by%20Peter%20Howie%20_jpg.htm < Stan L. Langley - West Norfolk U.K. Principal Interests; JICKLING; LANGLEY; RICHMOND; WAD(DE)LOW; W(H)ILLOCK. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nan Bailey" <aus.bailey@gmail.com> To: <norfolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [NFK] Mid and G N H Railway Thank you everyone for the correct name. No wonder I couldn't find it with putting the H in my search. I will check out all the excellent links and thanks for sending them. It is hard to imagine where places are when you are not familiar with a place. Samuel Bailey was a signalman working for the Midland and Great Northern Railway and was living in and working from a Railway supplied house at Front Road, Wisbech St. Mary. Cambs. He later moved to Walpole St. Andrew Norfolk. I doubt that this house will still be there, but if it was, it would be great to see what it was like. Regards, Nan Bailey > NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 2804 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

Correction. My previous email should have read " Murrow - a little to the west of Wisbech St. Mary." Stan L. Langley - West Norfolk U.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan Langley" <stanllangley@ic24.net> To: <norfolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [NFK] Mid and G N H Railway > Nan, > Idle curiosity prompted me to do a little digging. Google Map > shows Front Road as being in Murrow - a little to the east of Wisbech St. > Mary - you can view the entire road by using the Street > facility.................................. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 2804 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message