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History Topic: Lt.-Gen. (ret) Gord Reay - Obituary (2000)
gramondo
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:53 pm
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History Topic: Lt.-Gen. (ret) Gord Reay - Obituary (2000)
gramondo
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:52 pm
Replies: 1 6
Gord Reay - Obituary (2000) Lt.-Gen. (ret) Reay passed away on December 21, 2000, in Zagreb, Croatia after being involved in a car accident in that city. A former commander of the Canadian army, Lt.-Gen. (ret) Reay was in Croatia to help establish a mine action co-ordination mechanism on behalf of t...
Improving Royston Topic: The Green Corridor
gramondo
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:07 pm
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Improving Royston Topic: The Green Corridor
gramondo
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:06 pm
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Memories Topic: Idyllic memories of Royston
gramondo
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:32 pm
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yes Abbledy is still there, it was a bit overgrown the last time i walked through. we used to go there and make dams in the stream. maybe Abbledy was originally Appleday... "APPLEDAY, 2 farm-houses in the township of Notton, and parish of Royston, liberty of Pontefract; 4½ miles N. of Barnsley....
History Topic: Captain James Wright
gramondo
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:19 pm
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Notes: Captain James Wright arrived with Cromwell's army in Dublin in 1649. To finance Cromwell's campaign to put down the "rebellious" Irish who just could not accept English rule, Parliment devised a scheme where every person who contributed was to receive estates and manors of 1000 acre...
History Topic: Captain James Wright
gramondo
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:18 pm
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How the English Wrights came to become Irish James Wright was born in Royston, Yorkshire in 1615 and died in 1700. He first married Jane Owen in 1638 and had one son, William in 1640. Captain James Wright arrived with Cromwell's army in Dublin in 1649 and was later granted the estates of Gola and C...
Photographs Topic: Royston Silver Band
gramondo
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:10 pm
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Photographs Topic: Royston Drift Mine Band
gramondo
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:08 pm
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Photographs Topic: Royston Salvation Army Band
gramondo
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:07 pm
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