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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Islington address
« on: Saturday 25 February 06 15:31 GMT (UK)  »
Not at all...there's always another relative to look for!

Sarah seems to have done very well for herself...I imagine my Woodwards were very poor (with 17 kids to feed!) - their father was an iron worker so marrying the eldest off to a butcher must have been a relief!  I'm having great fun trying to track down where they all went!

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Islington address
« on: Saturday 25 February 06 11:20 GMT (UK)  »
ooh thank you!

I was going to do that later...had to go and be a bit domestic first!

Sarah (and my G Grandad William) were part of an enormous family and I've managed to track down two sets of descendants so far...now we're all trying to find the lot.

I can only assume Eranthine and Letitia were either names from HIS family or fancy ones she picked up in London!  Definately not the usual Woodward fare...every generation in each of the branches has so far had the same names...perhaps Sarah wanted to be different!

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Islington address
« on: Saturday 25 February 06 08:59 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks - don't know why none of my searches could bring up the names or addresses!

Now I have to find out what happened to Sarah.

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Islington address
« on: Saturday 25 February 06 08:18 GMT (UK)  »
I am researching Woodwards from Tredegar in South Wales. I have found my G Grandfather's oldest sister on the 1891 census working as a servant for 4 sisters and their elderly aunt - names as follows:

99 Petherton Road, Islington

Eliza Southall (Head) aged 52  Own means  b.Lambeth
Kate  "  aged 43
Hannah  aged 41
Emily aged 39
Elizabeth Pickard (aunt)aged 76
Sarah A Woodward  aged 28 - domestic servant b Tredegar

I went on to look on the 1901 census to see if she was still there and I can't find the address - Petherton Road only goes up to about number 66.  Where did it go?

I also can't find any of the Southall sisters - Did they all get married or die?

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Glamorganshire / Mine records
« on: Thursday 16 February 06 18:05 GMT (UK)  »
Are there records held anywhere of the names of miners employed by various pits in the Rhondda Valley throughout the 19th and early 20th century?


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Glamorganshire / Re: Pike/Williams
« on: Tuesday 14 February 06 21:19 GMT (UK)  »
Ah ha - I've found this one.

Thanks!  This is the first time I've managed to find anything with their names on it...my father's family is proving hard work.

Now at least I have a starting point.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Sage family - Pyle/Maesteg
« on: Tuesday 14 February 06 21:18 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks - not looked at FreeBMD before...am finding it hard to get around but will devote more time to it at the weekend when I'm not marking and planning lessons!

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Glamorganshire / Pike/Williams
« on: Tuesday 14 February 06 17:15 GMT (UK)  »
 ???

Me again...this time a harder quest.

I'm trying to find any records/trace of my father's grand parents.  They lived in Ystrad Road, Ystrad, Rhondda and I even remember going to the house.  My dad was brought up by them.

Their names were Robert Williams and Lily (Lilian?) Williams (nee Pike).  Lily only died in about 1974 but I can't seem to find any trace of either of them.  Both would have had a DoB around 1880

They had 3 kids - my Gran Ellen, and her brothers Spencer and  Edwin

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Glamorganshire / Sage family - Pyle/Maesteg
« on: Tuesday 14 February 06 17:08 GMT (UK)  »
My G G G Grandfather was Thomas Sage b c 1815 in Selworthy Somerset.  His wife was Elizabeth Sage.  From census records and the birth details of their children it looks like they moved to Maesteg around 1848.

Their children were:

George b 1843 Withypool Somerset
Anne b 1845 Withypool
Elizabeth b 1847 Exton Somerset
May 1849 ~Llangynwydd
Thomas b1855 Maesteg (my GG Grandfather)
Harriet b 1857 Pyle
Jane b 1859 Pyle
Elizabeth Jane b 1866 Llangynwydd

Thomas Jnr moved to the Rhondda and married a Mary Davies - from then on I know  plenty of details as my mum still lives in Mary Davies' house!

I'm interested in finding more info on the rest of Thomas Snr's children and what happened to them - do I have any distant relations still in Bridgend?  I believe his wife may have died and he remarried.  Any help with birth/marriage/death records for the family would be great.

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