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Barbara348
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Re: St Martins, Salop?
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 17 June 09 11:20 UTC (UK) »

Hi Gadget,

As a Shropshire lass myself, I have been watching this post with interest..

Having been born in Oswestry, I find that on what seems to be a rare occasion when the old town is mentioned, it draws me like a magnet.

Am I mistaken in thinking that posts/enquiries about Oswestry are few & far between?

Maybe I've missed some.

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Re: St Martins, Salop?
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 17 June 09 11:32 UTC (UK) »

There aren't many Barbara. I can count the requests that I remember on one hand.

I think many references to Oswestry come from it once being the registration district name for parts of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, as in this case.


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Re: St Martins, Salop?
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 17 June 09 12:18 UTC (UK) »

Thank you Gadget, I am digesting your information as I eat my dinner.  I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Many thanks Wink
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Re: St Martins, Salop?
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 17 June 09 12:56 UTC (UK) »

Did he marry an Ann and was he in Bedlington, Northumberland in 1901:

Boat House, Cambois, Bedlington
RG13/4834 F 62 P 16

Meredith

Geroge, 51, Miner and C hewer, b. St Martins, Wales (Salop written in in right column)  (a common mistake especially if it was Gledrid which is about 1/2 mile from the border)
Ann, 50, domestic, b. Ruabon, Denbighshire  (which is 6 miles from Gledrid/St Martins)
John,27, miner c hewer
George, 21, miner coal
Edith, 19
Evan, 16, miner coal
Warick, 14, miner
Frank, 12, scholar
Florence, 9, scholar
(all children b. Ruabon, Denbighshire)

There is Nathan Barnes,  married,23, coal miner, b. Neston, Cheshire listed as son in the same household and other Barnes family members all down as Visitors - one is a Polly Barnes, married,  aged 24 and b. Ruabon.  Also 2 children - Norman and Edith. It could be that she is George and Ann's daughter and she married Nathan and the two children are George's grandchildren.

The entry is a bit of a mixture. I'll post the Barnes family if you think it is the correct family.


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Hi Gadget

Yes these are the ones.  It looks like they were having a get together!  I am directly descended from George, whose son, Edward, moved to Lancashire when the railway opened a line through here in 1864 and of course the extension of the deep mining in this area.  It became known as Little Wales around here.  They brought religion, language and their own culture and even had their own Eisteddfod.

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Re: St Martins, Salop?
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 17 June 09 15:20 UTC (UK) »

So George moved to Ruabon and then to Northumberland, where he died,  but his son George moved to Lancashire, is that right?

When you have finished with George's line, let me know as I have a fair number of Ruabon records and could (hopefully) trace Ann's ancestors  Smiley


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Re: St Martins, Salop?
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 17 June 09 16:13 UTC (UK) »

You are very kind Gadget, as I find everyone is on this site and extremely knowledgeable. 

Sorry I have confused you.  George's son Edward moved to Lancs in 1890's, and married my GGrandmother who was from this area. 

They do seem to have moved about a bit, maybe following the work.  My families did seem to move about, again following the work.  I think the area must have had a large welsh community as lots of areas did.

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Re: St Martins, Salop?
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 17 June 09 18:28 UTC (UK) »

Hi Gadget

Sorry forgot to ask.  I like to know what the areas were like where they lived.  I have Joseph in Ifton Rhyn in 1841.  Do you know what the area may have been like and have you any photos?

Del Smiley
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Re: St Martins, Salop?
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 17 June 09 19:17 UTC (UK) »

Hi Del

I have a book about the area. Could you PM me your e-mail and I'll come up with something  Smiley


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Re: St Martins, Salop?
« Reply #23 on: Saturday 20 June 09 16:18 UTC (UK) »

Hi Del

i've been looking through the book I referred to again but the references are scattered throughout so it is difficult to do a summary.

The book is:

C Neville Hurdsman, A History of the Parishes of St Martin's and Weston Rhyn, Bridge Books, 2003

http://www.bridgebooks.co.uk/

A map of the Ifton area of St Martin's with an arrow roughly where the colliery was:
Click for Map


Some bits on the web:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Martin%27s,_Shropshire
http://shropshiremines.org.uk/misc/ifton.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/coalhouse/sites/ugc/pages/neilgraham.shtml

and a picture of what the site looks like today:

http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/countryside.nsf/open/C726CA31494D599C80257552005A4289

I went there a few times with my Dad who worked at the colliery for many years.


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