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jeffH
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Re: Blethyn Family
« Reply #15 on: Friday 02 February 07 04:05 UTC (UK) »
Barry Johnson has put together an excellent website which traces the history of Millford Haven's trawling industry.

http://www.llangibby.eclipse.co.uk/milfordtrawlers/index.htm

There are three trawlers in the index registered to Charles Blethyn of Milford Haven

Alpha, 1905-1911
Doris, 1897-1903
Hesto, 1899-1902

But the website is not just an index. If also includes (where available) log book entries, newspaper mentions and other bits of info about each of the indexed vessels.

Jeff
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abergynolwyn
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Re: Blethyn Family
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 28 October 09 16:00 UTC (UK) »
If you are seriously interested in the genealogy of the Blethyns in Pembroke you should refer to Richard Rose's 'Pembroke People', Otterquill Books, 2000.  I quote, 'The name Blethyn occurs constantly in records relating to Pembroke town and elsewhere in the county in relation to metal-working. The Blethyns of the town were clockmakers and whitesmiths. The family is a difficult one to reconstruct from the parish registers, but William, who lived to be 98, was probably the father of George who in turn fathered George and Richard mentioned below. William’s will is the only one I have encountered in which cutting off with a shilling may have been literally intended as a disinheritance rather than as a nominal legacy. They are an unusual family in other respects, such as George Blethyn’s three marriages and fathering of ten children over forty years and the large difference in age between William Blethyn and Richard Blethyn and their respective wives. Maria Blethyn, who married William Griffiths, descended with her useless husband into Banker’s Row.'

There then follows the genealogy and connections of four successive Blethyns, very intricately worked out.

See www.otterquillbooks.com

I hope this is helpful.
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Re: Blethyn Family
« Reply #17 on: Friday 13 November 09 17:29 UTC (UK) »
My link to the BLETHYN's is via my great aunt Ellen (Nelly) EVANS who was a servant to the Charles BLETHYN household in Milford Haven, as indicated in the 1901 and 1911 Census. Is there any BLETHYN family memory of her? Elder cousins of mine have no memory of her apart from her name, and I have failed to discover what happened to her after 1911.

I can recommend JOHNNSON's website on Milford trawlers and fishing craft. It contains histories of  many of the vessels that my family served on, and there are some photographs, two of which show three relatives.

Regards to all

Ian EVANS
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