Stjepan AJETIC & Bucharest - Giurgiu Railway
My ancestor Stjepan AJETIC coming from ILOK, Slavonia, Croatia was hired by the British company „John Trevor Barclay & John Staniforth“ which signed with the Romanian state a contract to build the railroad between Bucharest and Giurgiu. THE COMPANY: John Trevor Barkley - link ! John Trevor Barkley John Trevor Barkley (1826-1882) 1882 Obituary [1] Mr. JOHN TREVOR BARKLEY was born at Yetminster, Dorsetshire, on the 12th of October 1826. He was educated at Uppingham School, and began his business career at the South Hetton Collieries, near Sunderland, in 1839, being then thirteen years of age. After assisting for some time in the engineering management of these and other collieries, he began to take an interest in railway business, which was at that time a comparatively new sphere of labour, and in which better prospects of success were opened out to a capable engineer than perhaps any other. Mr. Barkley's first railway appointment was that of reside
