Hi Nicola.... Your message is quite interesting. By separate emailing, I am forwarding some correspondance which I carried on with Jenny Self, Del Maw, Patricia Strong, and Julie Wells about a year ago. It will detail our interest in the lineage you are researching. To summarize, however, I maintain a website focused on researching Strongs in Ireland, and by extension, England and Scotland. See: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/ and follow the links to Book One, 2nd Edition, and the Lineages Directory. Scroll down to Ireland, and County Wicklow; and back up to Timothy Strong of Stone Mason fame. You will find various links which may bear on the subject in which you are interested. If you are interested in looking at the Wicklow data we have in the recently updated Irish Strong Database, see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/wicklow.htm The hypothesis of interest to us is whether the Wicklow Strongs can be linked to the Stone Mason Strongs. There seems to be only about one missing generation... and perhaps you may be able to find the "missing link"! Obviously, the material I have has been gathered in a "peripheral" way, focused on the Irish end of the research with the English material being mostly references which might help in making the connection. I am hoping that Martha Strong, also a subscriber to this list, will pick up on this subject and provide a few insights as well. She is an "expert" on the Strongs of southwest England, and may be able to provide more help. Note her website: > "Welcome to my World": Martha F. (Brani) Strong's web site > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7905/ She has compiled quite a bit of info re the Stone Mason Strongs both on the website and in her private research... some of which I mention in the separate mailing being sent to you. Please let me know whether the material I am providing is helpful... and we look forward to hearing further about your research findings! Regards Dave Strong ====================== ----- Original Message ----- From: Nicola <Nicola@bestfootforward.com> To: <STRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 5:46 AM Subject: Introduction > > This is an introduction. I have joined this mailing list for two reasons: > > 1) I am a Strong (my mother is a Strong) and am therefore interested in > getting in touch with relatives. > - our line of Strong's is from South Africa (x3 generations), with > my great-grandfather leaving England for Zimbabwe/South Africa just before > WWII (I think). - Family history around this time is very poor. > > 2) Most interestingly, I am conducting detailed research on the Strong > family of stonemasons who, amongst other buildings & churches, were > contractor masons for St Paul's Cathedral, as well as quarry owners in > Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire Counties. I have been gathering information > on them for the past year (secondry data) and have accumlated rather a large > amount of information, and am slowly starting to piece the puzzle together. > However, I am keen to increase the detail of my research to incorporate a > more contextual understanding of how they lived, what it was like to be a > stonemason and their role as important stonemasons in London and the > Cotswolds/Oxfordshire in the 1600's and 1700's. At present I am researching > original sources in London libraries, and as I can only do this part-time, > it is taking awhile. > > If anyone has information on this particular line of the Strong family - > stories etc I would be most grateful to hear from you, and/or share my > findings to date. While I continue my research, I am trying to trace the > memoirs written by Edward Strong Snr. He wrote these in the early 1700's, > whilst retired in his manor at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Should > anyone have ideas on how I can trace these memoirs I would love to hear from > you. > > Best wishes, > Nicola Jenkin > ...................................................................... ...... > ................................ > Nicola Jenkin > Projects Manager > > Best Foot Forward Ltd > The Future Centre > 115 Magdalden Road > Oxford > OX4 1RQ > England > > Tel: 01865 250818 > Fax: 01865 794586 > Mobile: 0781 558 7707 > > E-mail: nicola@bestfootforward.com > Website: www.bestfootforward.com > > City Limits Project: Ecological Footprint of Greater London: > www.citylimitslondon.com > > 'Sharing Nature's Interest' & a lifestyle calculator: > www.ecologicalfootprint.com > > ==== STRONG Mailing List ==== > ======================================================== > "Welcome to my World": Martha F. (Brani) Strong's web site > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7905/ > > Ancestors of "Elder" John Strong, Margery Deane, and > Abigail Ford in England. Children of "Elder" John > Strong of MA & CT. Historical documents of England & > U.S.A.; historical Strong(e) homes and buildings. New > genealogical research findings concerning families in > "The West Country" of England: Somerset, Dorset, and > Devon counties. Memorial to John Richard Mayer, Strange > descendant and researcher. Other research aids and links. > ==========================================================