Sayre`family genealogy
by James K. Sayre
My paternal grandfather, Frank Valentine Sayre (his middle name noted his birth on St. Valentine's Day, February 14th), my father, Robert Kedzie Sayre and myself, James Kedzie Sayre, all trace our Sayre family ancestry back to one Thomas Sayre, who, as a young man, sailed from England and landed at the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1935. Several years later, he and his brother moved down to the eastern end of Long Island and helped to found the towns of East Hampton and Southhampton. There is a Sayre's Path in that area to this day.
The roots of the Sayre family in England are apparently in Leighton Buzzard, a town in Bedfordshire, that is about thirty eight miles northwest of London. The big attraction in Leighton Buzzard is narrow-gauge railway for holiday-makers. It is a two-foot gauge light railway with three miles of track. The original industrial use of this narrow gauge railway was to haul mined sand to the nearest main line railway. It was originally built after World War I, after sand-hauling by cart had badly damaged the local roads.
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