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From: Anne Peat <>
Subject: Re: [HRT] Slowman and Sarah BRETT
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:32:18 +0100
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On 4 Jul 2008, at 04:56, H & V Edwards wrote:

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> PS. After another comprehensive look at my 1766 Dury and Andrews map
> I have
> found "Slonmans" just about 1 mile west of Colney Street off the
> Watling
> Street Road (south of St. Albans) which appears to be obliterated by
> the M25
> on a modern Ordnance Survey map. It would not appear to be a
> village just
> perhaps the name of a group of houses. But here I am guessing as the
> map is
> not sophisticated.

That's exactly where the Slowman's Close is now - off Watling Street/
Radlett Road, south of St Albans.

Anne
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anne Peat" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [HRT] Slowman and Sarah BRETT
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>
>> Dear Cindy and Valerie - I have also spent some time looking for
>> Slowman and for Sarah Brett/Tomlin . On the 1851 census Ancestry has
>> her transcribed as coming from Stamen Herts.( It could read Slamen -
>> but that doesn't help much! In the 1861 census she says she comes
>> from
>> Hitchin.
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