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We leave the ferry at Holyhead and travel to Bridgnorth so that Wendy can research her ancestors. We stay at the Parlors Hall Hotel. I visit Iron Bridge, the home of the Industrial Revolution. I then spend the day at Bridgnorth, visiting theFunicular, St Leonard’s Church and the Severn River Railway. . . . → Read More: Bridgnorth The Harley’s live in Brampton Bryan Castle and have their old family castle as a ornament in the front yard. Lord Robert Harley is my ancestor here. I then travel to Wigmore Castle to see the home of my grand uncle – Earl Robert De Mortimer, who tried to seize the English throne. I also . . . → Read More: PART 5A THE NORMANS A few days in Dublin. We stay at the Parliament Hotel, because we never realized that this was the weekend of the Hurlinggrand final. On the first full day I go to Glendalough. On the second day we go to Knowth and Newgrange. Finally we visitDublin Castle. . . . → Read More: Dublin and surrounds Arriving in Shooter’s Hill I visit the site, now a War Hospital of the 80 room mansion called Hazelwood House, which belonged to the father George Harley, father of Elizabeth Harley (1765-1842). They are Great…Grandparents. I then meet up with Wendy who has arrived from Europe. We visit Harrods. On the . . . → Read More: London to Dublin Sussex is where several of my ancestors lived. The Norman descended ancestors, who connected into the family in Australia only a few generations back. The Anglo-Saxon ancestors are from the Cramp side. My Marks side members also come from Sussex, but Marks is a Jewish name. We do not know if they . . . → Read More: Saxons and Normans |
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