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Title: Blethyn Family
Post by: blethyn on Monday 21 March 05 10:25 GMT (UK)
Looking for anyone interested in Blethyn Family of Pembroke and Carmarthen.
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: jeffH on Tuesday 22 March 05 01:57 GMT (UK)
My Great-Great-Grandmother was a Blethyn who married a Harries. She was Emily Blethyn b.1845 in Haverfordwest. Her parents were William and Elizabeth Blethyn.

Do you know anything about this Blethyn family?


Jeff
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: blethyn on Tuesday 22 March 05 08:43 GMT (UK)
Hello Jeff.
Yes I know a bit about this Blethyn family.
Actually your Emily twin to Lavinia was born 27th.Aug.1845. Haverfordwest.
I think that we should chat off this site.
How can we do that.
Are you a list member of any Rootsweb List in Wales, like Dyfed or Glamorgan.
Best Regards Allen in Aberavon.
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: zebedee on Sunday 17 July 05 14:39 BST (UK)
Hi Blethyn,

I have been in touch with jeff as I too have a connection to the Blethyn's...quite distnat though!

My ggg grandmother SARAH CAVE (nee JENKINS) had a sister MARY JENKINS. She married JOHN BLETHYN in Uzmaston, Pembrokeshire. When SARAH'S daughter Mary Cave died at 23 years of age, her gravestone was dedicated to her by her cousin John Blethyn, Mary and John's son. I have a photo of this gravestone with John Blethyn's name on it if you are interested.

What is your connection with the Blethyn's?
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: blethyn on Sunday 17 July 05 20:18 BST (UK)
Hello Zebedde or Cave-Jenkins-Blethyn
Would love to chat, give me a buzz at  (*)

Regards Allen in Aberavon

(*) Moderator Comment: e-mail removed, to avoid spamming. Please use the PM system for exchanging personal data.
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: Carino on Thursday 23 March 06 17:44 GMT (UK)
Hello,  I don't know anything about them but I do have a certificate of a Ann Blythyn's marriage to a William Tucker and a certificate of their daghter Mary,   I thought they were my ancestors but they turn out, not  to be, my ancestors names were John Tucker and a Ann Hall and their daughter's name was Mary, so you can see the slip up I had.  William & Ann Blythyn came from  Stackpole Elidor ( so did mine ) and they were married 1829 their daughter Mary was born 1831 at the same place.

If you want I can send you these certificates if they are in your family, let me know if you want them.

Rhiannon
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: Trini on Tuesday 11 July 06 21:14 BST (UK)
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\allen in Aberovan,

Jean ADKINS, a librarian in Ohio, has lost contact with you.  Could you let me know if you wish contact and I will give you her new email address.

Thanks.

Trini.
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: joboy on Wednesday 12 July 06 07:57 BST (UK)
Looking for anyone interested in Blethyn Family of Pembroke and Carmarthen.
Did BLETHYN morph into BLEVIN at anytime? .. been looking for yonks for BLEVIN's in Hastings.
joboy
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: Carino on Wednesday 12 July 06 15:32 BST (UK)
I'm sorry I don't know anything about them other then a certifiicate which I had by mistake,  I thought they were my ancestors as all the names fitted but it turned out they wern't.

Sorry!
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: decima on Thursday 03 August 06 16:34 BST (UK)
I am a relative and know much about Charles Street et al.
What is your linkage witht the Blethyns ? You say that you are a
Blethyn. Who were your parents ?  I may be able to help you.
decima
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: Carino on Thursday 03 August 06 18:58 BST (UK)
Hello Decima,

I am not related to the Blethyns from Pembroke, I just happen to have a certificate that I got by mistake as the names were all simular to the ones that I was researching, it was at the begining of my research, since then I have learnt of my correct ancestors.

Thank you for getting in touch and offering me information.

All the best Rhian
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: Welsh Jules on Saturday 07 October 06 01:20 BST (UK)
Mt great grandmother was Ellen Blethyn from Pembrokeshire her brother was James and they both ended up living in the Rnondda (Tonypandy) at the end of the 1800s.
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: Welsh Jules on Saturday 07 October 06 01:23 BST (UK)
Decima

What Charles Street are you talking about please?


Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: decima on Saturday 07 October 06 10:58 BST (UK)
Chales Blethyn was an ironmonger in Haverfordwest, later Milford Haven became a Steam trawler Owner. My Great Uncle. Iniv lecturer
married his daughter Olga who married Fl Lt Ryland RAF in 1940
Part of my family tree which starts in 1190 and which I have completed in 4 years. The trauma was discovering that an ancestor married a Grosvenor who inherited the many acres (now Mayfair) had the lady an older brother
who knows we might have been landlords of  Mayfair to this day.
Decima
PS  Charles St is in Haverfordwest
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: Welsh Jules on Saturday 07 October 06 13:54 BST (UK)
Thank's Decima it's just that my branch of the Blethyns ended up in Tonypandy in the the Rhondda Valley and some of them lived in a Charles Street there at the end of the 1800s.
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: jeffH on Friday 02 February 07 04:05 GMT (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
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: abergynolwyn on Wednesday 28 October 09 16:00 GMT (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.
Abergynolwyn
Title: Re: Blethyn Family
Post by: yogievans on Friday 13 November 09 17:29 GMT (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