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Topic: Halfasheeps Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In. (Read 1517 times)
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Tephra
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 2755
Duc, sequi, aut fuge!
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Welcome to this weeks Scavenger Hunt and it's Halfasheeps turn. I think this one is going to be doddle for you lot.........but then again I could be mistaken!!
Good Luck and Good Hunting
Barbara
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Hope this is ok - I don't need a particularly large amount of info, but it's one of those brick walls!
The person I am trying to track down is a William John Hughes. I have very little info on him, but hopefully someone can crack this nut.
Until the 1911 Census is out (and I really cannot wait!), the only detail I have for him is off the marriage certificate to my gt gt gran, Elizabeth Evans.
They were married on 01/09/1903 at Pontypridd Registry Office.
His age at the time is given as 24 years old, but I know for a fact that Elizabeth's age (20) was out by 2 years (she should have been 18), so I don;t know if one or both lied about their ages (not helped by the fact that she was around 5 months pregnant at the time).
He was given as a bachelor whose occupation was a haulier.
HIs father was noted as a Charles Hughes (deceased), and I suspect this may be true as their first son was called William Charles Hughes. The father's occupation was given as a solicitors clerk, but I have taken this with a pinch of salt, and expect him to actually be a coal miner!
The witnesses to the wedding were Elizabeth's parents, so no help there.
The address given for both William and Elizabeth on the marriage cert was 86 Feeder Row, Dinas - this was the Evans home on the 1901 census, but curiously Elizabeth is missing (possibly a barmaid in the Glynrhedynog Inn, Ferndale, RG13/5001 Fol 56 Pg 45).
I have not been able to successfully locate a William with a Charles as his father in the census returns at this time.
Their children (if this helps!) were:
William Charles Hughes (25/02/1904, 14 Tram Road, Dinas, Rhondda)
Hopkin Hughes (27/09/1906, 3 Morris Court, Pontlottyn - named after Elizabeth's father)
Victor Hughes (11/12/1915, 14 Mill Street, Cwmfelin, Maesteg)
They also had Kenneth and Rose, but I've not done any research into them as yet as I have no information about them whatsoever.
A family story about William really doesn't help matters much. In a new family tradition (upheld by his son Hopkin, and continued with various success by other male members of the family), he upped sticks and left his wife and children at some point.
I know Elizabeth eventually re-married a Benjamin Evans, but I don't know when, only that he was a resident of Maesteg. She is buried with her son, Hopkin, so I have no idea where this Benjamin is buried (I assume Maesteg Cemetary though).
One of my older cousins said that he recalls being at Elizabeth's house (his gran) when she received a phone call stating that William had died in London (to which she was apparently not that bothered shockingly enough), and that he was apparently buried in a paupers grave in London somewhere (he just doesn;t want to be found does he?).
This cousin in question was born in 1949, and Elizabeth died in 1972. so I have a bit of a time period that this could have occurred in, but quite frankly the logistics of trying to find a death for a Hughes, or the marriage of two Evans' (assuming she re-married under her maiden name) just makes me shudder, so I've not done anything about this - hence the scavenger hunt (I know you lot like a challenege!).
I have tried narrowing it down a bit by asking the cousin if he was married at the time, etc, but he cannot recall - he knows it wasn't mentioned again, but that's it.
That is the lot - a lot of mainly useless info to try and find one man with a common name, who could possibly have lied about every detail on his marriage certificate.
Good luck to everyone who is prepared to help me out, and many thanks in advance - I hope to pick up some new ideas for beating brick walls from this!
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Onley/Only/Olney In Islington.
Abbott In Islington
Wallwork In Bolton and Walkden
Lamb In Bolton and Ireland
Grundy In Bolton
Blackledge In Bolton
Osbaldeston ?? ??
Barnett in Islington
Binyon in Islington
Kitchen in Bolton
Parker in Bolton
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halfasheep
RootsChat Senior
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Just a gut feeling given the amount of trouble the Hughes family has been - they seem to only get married because someone got pregnant, then leg it at the first opportunity (a trait still visible in one of my uncles!).
I'd checked the 1881, 1891, and 1901 census's for a Charles Hughes who was a solicitor's clerk, but found nothing at all.
Given that Elizabeth's age is out, I am a bit concerned that William has provided false details for whatever reason - I wouldn't put it past him having been below the age of consent (as Elizabeth should have only been 18), hence altering his age, and even saying that his father was dead!
The only reason I believe that Charles was actually his father's name is because their first son had Charles as a middle name.
Then again, I could be wrong about all the above.......
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Buckley - South Wales, Tipperary
Lane - Waterford
Hughes - South Wales
Evans - Neath/Cadoxton
Whitty - Wexford, South Wales
Connell - Ireland?
White - Cork
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toni*
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 8722
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Charles HUGHES aged 55 Merthyr Tydfil Sep Qtr 1901 11a 435
Charles HUGHES aged 53 Swansea Jun Qtr 1903 11a 515
Gaie
these two should appear on 1901 census
BTW if you know the address for 1911 - a clue if the same at time of marriageand on army records then its most likely to be the same in 1911 - you can order the census image for £45.00 the only thing excluded is the disability section.
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