Welsh Journals

JOHN BROGDEN (1798-1869) John Alexander Henry H. D. Milne = James = M. C. Beete George Daughters (1823-55) (1825-92) (1827- (1832-1907) (1849- W. H. 1913) 1927) (1842-92) James Duncan Lucy George Garstang Dunbar Eleanor Alexander (1850-85) (b. 1861) (d. 1954) (b. 1868) BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE This article is based upon information obtained from a variety of sources including the following: Documents, papers and correspondence at one time in the possession of a member of the family. Copies of schedules relating to the Brogden railway contracts in New Zealand and information concerning them obtained during his researches kindly provided by Mr. D. B. Leitch of Masterton, New Zealand, the author of The Railways of New Zealand. The Lancashire and Cheshire Record Offices, The Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society and the Barrow-in-Furness, Ulverston, Altrincham and Hale Libraries. The archives of the South Wales area of the National Coal Board, The Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers, Vol. XV (1856), The Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineers, The South Wales Coal Annual, Finlay A. Gibson, The coal mining industry of the United Kingdom, etc., 1874-1920 (1922), The Porthcawl dock shipping registers. Joseph Richardson, Furness past and present (2 vols. 1880), J. D. Marshall, Furness and the industrial revolution (1958), William White, Furness folk and facts (1930), D. B. Leitch, The Railways of New Zealand (1972). The Public Record Office, The General Registry and the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House, The London Gazette and The Law Reports. The files of The Times, The Western Mail, The South Wales Daily News, The Glamorgan Gazette and The Porthcawl Advertiser. LEONARD S. HIGGINS Porthcawl 1 See a contribution on 'The Late John Brogden' in Vol. 1, pp. 221-35 oi J, Richardson, Furness past and present (2 Vols. 1880). 2 These purchases both involved mortgages and also subsequent very complicated financial arrangements. 3 The anglicized spelling of Dyffryn and Llynfi is retained when the titles of Acts of Parliament and the names of companies in which it occurs are quoted. 4 The existing railways in Mid-Glamorgan the Llynvi Valley Railway and the South Wales Railway were broad-gauge lines. 5 The new company formed by the Receiver also failed in 1885, and when the properties were later put up for auction by order of the Court no buyer could be found. They were subsequently purchased by Colonel North and ultimately by North's Navigation Collieries (1889) Limited. 6 In order to inherit the Picton estate he assumed the surname Picton by deed pole in 1883 and became John Picton Picton. 7 Duncan Dunbar Brogden, James's son by his first wife, was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on the 29th of July 1882 and was posted to the 2nd Battalion of the Royal West Sussex Regiment. After serving in Malta he proceeded to India in January 1886. It has not, however, been possible to discover when or where he died.