We live in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England

Some brief historical facts about our city and its origins are listed below.
You can also see a map - we live in the neighbourhood nearly at the centre of the image!

· · Modern St Albans was founded on a hill overlooking the ruins of the Roman city of Verulamium.

· · Originally established in AD 49 on an older Celtic settlement, Verulamium was an important and wealthy civil centre in Roman Britain for over 300 years.

· · St Albans is named after Alban, a Roman citizen executed in the third century as the first Christian martyr in Britain.

· · The site of his martyrdom soon became a shrine, and was eventually enclosed within a medieval Abbey, now a Cathedral. Over the centuries, the shrine has been a major place of pilgrimage.

· · In the Middle Ages St Albans was also the site of two battles in the 'Wars of the Roses' as the town commanded the strategic route into London.

· · It is arguable that the Patron Saint of England should really be St Alban and not St George!

· · You can see some of the City if you visit the civic web site by clicking here.

and click this link to see all the family

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· Genealogical research; I am compiling information on my family history with particular interest in the surnames Deveson, Foad, Streeter, Stainthorp and Waddleton. More details are listed on the page that can be reached from the menu or from here.

This also has a link to a 'RootsWeb World Connect' site where I have posted my searchable 'ancestor database'.

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First constructed on Monday, April 10th 2000, latest revisions in April 2002

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