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From: "Elizabeth Wills" <>
Subject: RE: [SoG] Genealogical diversions (was London Cab Drivers)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:20:48 +0100
In-Reply-To: <eEw+RCAc4ur7Ewut@tdrake.demon.co.uk>

Barney wrote,
>>>At least the cab drivers had the opportunity to switch from horse to
motor vehicle. My great grandfather's brother was a Lincolnshire horse
breeder specialising in rearing horses for cab drivers. Around 1900 he
had to sell up and leave the land for a life in suburban London when the
horse market went belly up.<<<
Great Grandad's father was a 'Heavy Horse Breeder' in Suffolk. That is why
he and his brother worked with horses when they came to London in about
1880. Dan managed to buy a motor cab, but James couldn't. James died in
1911, age 56, from bronchitis due to the London smog.

Elizabeth

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