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Hi Jool


Thank you for posting those. I haven't got a findmypast login so if anyone else does it would be interesting to see those articles. The 2nd one mentioned my great great grandmother Elizabeth Holloway née Pinnegar, and I must admit I had never taken her as a barmaid or landlord's wife! It would be interesting to see how she looked, George too.


My late mother, bless her, was a Holloway and I wonder if there is, or was, a family resemblance?


Sleep well every one


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Why AnthonyMMM,


  You are indeed a local expert! At least something good came out of walking in the country lanes through lockdown - I did the same locally here in Dorset.


I am pleased that you have solved this as it was perplexing me. In my RootsMagic database I have had both my Great Grandfather and Great Great Grandfather and a note from an uncle that they had been living at the Cross Keys, but until I delved into this more after my father passed and I saw that pixelated Photograph - which shows the original image had been copied as a jpg many times and depreciated accordingly, I didn't know anything about the Cross Keys.


Thank you too for the links to were the Cross Keys house is and for the image from 2010 and recent Google image. I will take a snapshot of them and add them into the history of the family.


Thank you again for your help 


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Hello everyone,


It's been a while since I have posted on here., but today I have a conundrum. In my late father's estate I have found a very old and badly contrasted photo of my Great Grandfather (Wilfred Cyril Holloway) and his parents (George and Elizabeth Holloway) on a horse drawn carriage outside the The Cross Keys Public House, Horn Hill, in Rickmansworth - or that is what is written on the photo. However, I cannot find any information on it. I should imagine that it has now gone or been turned into a residential property.


The only website that I could find any reference to it has no real information on it except referencing who lived there in the last 3 census records of the 1800's plus my great great grandfather with his children in 1901.


If anyone has any information on this quaint old pub, I would be interested to know.

All the best,

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Hello Everyone, and Emma of course...

Well it's 2022 now a decade on from when this thread of information was written  But I have recently returned from a personal pilgrimage to Wickhambrook (Emma and I are distantly related) and photographed all of the Edgley/Edgeley gravestone Memorials. Plus of course the Village Memorial to the fallen during WWWI and WWII. I have tried to no avail to attach a couple of the Village memorial photos below pertaining to Adolphus Bertie Edgley/Edgeley. I will see if I can do it on another reply or post.

Thank you all for the information you have supplied on both Adolphus and his brothers I am going to add most of it into my own family tree records.

Did anyone find out if James and Betsy Jane Edgley moved to Australia as their Gravestone Memorial is also in the Graveyard at Wickhambrook which suggests that they stayed here in the UK and Wickhambrook in particular. I can also add their Gravestone Photo's if you want.

All the very best

Brian
aka Fanflame