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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: West Drayton ??
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 23:56:43 +0100


In message <01b401be7c82$98680860$>, "Verne R. Horton"
<> writes
>Where and what is West Drayton? This has peaked my interest in that my
>eldest known ancestor was named "Drayton" Horton with an estimated DOB of
>1725 +-. In that the name is seemingly quite unusual I am wondering if this
>might somehow provide a lead???
>

Bottom left hand corner of Middlesex, just to the east of Uxbridge,
which should be on your map. Your man is probably the result of a
marriage between Mr Horton and Miss Drayton, whose family were that bit
better off, so he named the boy with an eye to a bit of lovely money
coming his way in the fullness of time.

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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