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From: "Marvin Witham" <>
Subject: Re: Wicklow, NB
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 05:46:25 -0500


Yes Dot, it was according to my Dad Leonard, named after him, now 88, who
used to ride with him as a boy. Leonard Drost father before him drove the
same ferry, so that's going back quite a few years. :)
Were you familiar with the family in Wicklow?

Thanks for asking,
Marvin and Sally Witham
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Date: Monday, December 29, 1997 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: Wicklow, NB

>Marvin Witham wrote:
>>
>> Am researching the surnames, DROST and BROWN in Wicklow, NB. Leonard
Drost
>> m. Margaret Brown in 1877. Does anyone have any information on this
family?
>> They had four girls, Tressie, Betsy, Ferne, and Laura; and one son,
Perry.
>> Margaret died sometime before 1900 and Leonard remarried. He drove the
>> ferry over the St. Johns River as his father before him did.
>> Thank you so much for any information.
>> in the St. John River did Leonard drive the Ferry?
My father used
>to take us on; the ferry as kids on the way to Springfield, NB. It was
>up river quite a way from there but was such a thrill. Just wondering if
>it was your Leonard. Dot
>

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