Croxton PR - LUGSDIN/EN

[lugsdin]

Was the letter written to one of his cousins in Australia?

Very interesting information, David.

Yes the letter was written to his step cousin Frank in Australia, the son of step-brother John & Mary Stonebanks.

It is amongst numerous family letters I have inherited - letters from Eliza Topham (nee Lugsdin 1850), James & Mary Ann Topham (1854, 1874, 1876), Joseph Lugsdin (1897, 1898 x 2, 1905) and numerous grandchildren of Ladds & Priscilla Lugsdin in Canada, plus numerous grandchildren of Robert Thorns Lugsdin in England, as well as letters from relatives and residents of Colmworth, Sharnbrook & Riseley.

Cheers,

Graham

[bedfordshire boy]

Thanks Graham. It's great that you have so many old letters, which doubtless contain all sorts of day to day information about their lives, which help to bring them alive

David

[bedfordshire boy]

Sometimes I'm a bit slow!

Jay/Jabez Lugsdin's wife was Jane Mary Dun. Her brother was Robert Graham Dun, whose company, for which Jay was manager of the San Francisco branch, was R.G.Dun and Co.

In 1933 R G Dun & Co merged with the Bradstreet company to form Dun & Bradstreet

Little wonder that when R G Dun died in 1900 he was a very rich man

David