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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Glamorganshire => Topic started by: cookiechick on Monday 11 March 24 19:49 GMT (UK)
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Hi i wonder if someone can help me please, my 2 X Great Grandfather his Wife and my Great Grandfather lived at 16 Constant Margam Neath Glamorganshire Wales in 1881 before moving to Staffordshire, i cannot find any listing on google for the address i have tried to search old addresses etc but coming up with nothing im wondering if it was transcribed wrongly on FindMyPast i have attached the census i hope its allowed
Lesley
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Welcome to Rootschat :)
This area
https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/postcode/sa131ub
Enlarge on map area Taibach
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Margam
Cas
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Lesley,
Within this link: https://wikishire.co.uk/wiki/Taibach you will find a reference to Constantinople Row in Taibach.
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A couple of old maps of Taibach - Constant isn't marked. However, Underhill House, Dormitory Row and Groeswen Row are marked (named on '81 Census) -
https://maps.nls.uk/view/102342565#zoom=6&lat=10127&lon=6168&layers=BT
https://maps.nls.uk/view/102183441#zoom=5&lat=5561&lon=5836&layers=BT
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Two names from 1872 Margam on Genuki
Williams, J Grocer
Williams, John Stone Cutter
?? your family
Heddwch
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Two names from 1872 Margam on Genuki
Williams, J Grocer
Williams, John Stone Cutter
?? your family
Heddwch
Hi i dont think so, my John Williams on the 1881 census is a coalminer :)
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There is a Constant Road in Margam opposite Taibach Community Centre but it looks like the houses were built in the 1930s and later
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Thankyou for all your replies, i really appreciate it, ill never see the actual house they lived in, or find out which mine my grandfather worked in, but i can imagine what it was like i have a good imagination lol
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Here is a side-by-side view showing Constant Row on a 6 inch OS map and a modern satellite view. The M4 goes right through where Balaclava Row was, and you can see that the line of Caradoc Street is preserved.It looks to me as if the Wales Coastal Path, which is the feature running parallel with the motorway through the trees to the east, follows the line of Constant Row. I wonder if there are any traces left?
https://tinyurl.com/3t38j9ac (https://tinyurl.com/3t38j9ac)
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Here is an overlay view of Constant Row and a satellite image, confirming that the Coastal Path does follow the line of the street.
https://tinyurl.com/y6zafh63 (https://tinyurl.com/y6zafh63)
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It seems likely that your grandfather worked at the Morfa Colliery which was situated about 2 miles to the south, in the area of the steelworks. The colliery served the Taibach Copper Works, and both were owned by the Vivian Company.
The South Wales Daily News of March 13th 1890 has an article about an inquest following "The Morfa Disaster" in which 88 men died. This seems to have been an explosion resulting in an extensive roof fall followed by a fire. The majority of the men who died were from Taibach, and in the list published in the article I can see nine whose address is given as "Constant". One of the dead was David Brownsell, 35, Constant, married (one of the explorers). [One of the men who went in after the initial event to rescue the victims.] His body was identified by Evan Williams, Constant-row, Taibach.
Constant Row was probably built and owned by the Vivian company.
There is a list of the victims here:
http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/deathrolls/Morfa.htm#Morfa1890 (http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/deathrolls/Morfa.htm#Morfa1890)