Hi MargaretE,
I'm glad to make contact with another Linge descendant! You will have noted my Linge connections in the earlier posts. As a result of my those posts I made contact with a descendant of William's brother Henry some months ago (via New Zealand!). Owing to an illness in my newly-found cousin's family, we haven't corresponded for about three months, but I was informed about the sad family story. I haven't done much more research since mid-year because my work has been particularly busy. I'm looking forward to retirement in about a year's time, and hope to be able to put more effort into family history. Depending somewhat on the global economic situation and how things develop, my wife and I are hoping to visit UK in mid-2010, and we would love to be able to meet many of my long-lost relatives.
I found Thistley Hall Farm on Google Earth: amazed to see it's still under cultivation, but the old house is gone.
Will make further contact.
HowardJ
