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    Great Western Railway Shareholders Index on findmypast.com

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This unique index is *not* an index of railway staff, but shareholders 
in the Great Western Railway. The index contains details for 77,000 
shareholders, with a total number of 292,000 names plus addresses (where 
given) entered into the registers.

The Great Western Railway, also known affectionately as "God's Wonderful 
Railway", was built to link London to the West Country, South Wales and 
the South West of England. Bristol merchants were desperate for 
effective transport links to London, to prevent the emergence of 
Liverpool as the country’s second port.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the engineer on the project, personally 
surveying the route. He was also a shareholder, and appears in the index 
following his death in 1859.

GWR Brunel

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This first release covers the ledgers for the period 1835 to 1910. The 
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In almost all entries, the name of the shareholder is given together 
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