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Flintshire / Re: Feathers Street, Flint in 1870s?
« on: Saturday 09 October 21 13:24 BST (UK)  »
Hello Junius: I moved from Flint circa 1948 and have no recollection of Feather Street at all. My father moved to Flint in the late 1920's and worked at Pumphreys. He lodged at 68 Feather St. with a "nice old white haired lady''. She was the widow of the licensee of the Red Lion in Church St. I think her name was Selina Lloyd (not too sure of the Christian name) . She died during the war and left the house to my dad in her will. He was then a belt man in Courtaulds. He later married and I was born there in 1944.
I have looked at photographs of the top end of the street and tried to de-cypher the door numbers. It may be that 'Chapel House' is 70 so my birth place would be next to it. When you have one more posts I think I can send you a personal message. Regards Eldon.

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Flintshire / Re: Feathers Street, Flint in 1870s?
« on: Friday 08 October 21 17:07 BST (UK)  »
ThrelfallYorky: I will try and find the census returns for Feather St. (They are currently in a very safe place!) Your ancestor should be on the 1861 unless you have already done that>
Junius: You are about 4 years older than me and we left in 1950ish. I am still trying to establish which of the houses was No68, which was very close to the Chapel you mentioned. I may be able to get a better idea when the 1921 census comes out in January. You and I lived more or less opposite to each  other. By the way the Three pigeons was in Coleshill St.

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Denbighshire / Re: Advice please, Ivy cottage Denbigh
« on: Tuesday 29 August 17 23:14 BST (UK)  »
Ask the Denbigh estate agents. Many years ago I was looking for an address in Tavistock, but none of the estate agents had heard of it, because  it has lost its individual name and was now a number in a  street.
I Googled the address but to me, it revealed nothing.
I have never tried this, but the Welsh Land Registry in Cardiff might tell you if the property still exists.
You can make an online request and it costs £25

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Flintshire / Re: Where is 'Gerddi'
« on: Saturday 10 December 16 19:45 GMT (UK)  »
No thank you ScouseBoy, the maps that show Yacht Farm also show a nearby terraced row of houses on Cefendy Road. That will do for me.

Thank you for your contributions and assistance.
Regards Eldon.

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Flintshire / Re: Where is 'Gerddi'
« on: Thursday 08 December 16 11:07 GMT (UK)  »
To JenB; The newspaper cutting not only answered the question but actually concerned the family. Thank you for finding it. I did look in subsequent papers for an apology but could not find one.
Regards Eldon.

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Flintshire / Re: Where is 'Gerddi'
« on: Wednesday 07 December 16 18:01 GMT (UK)  »
This will muddy the water!
The newspaper cutting identified by Despair and JenB is clear enough. It concerned the death of David Price Jones on the 21/10/1881. However the death certificate for Robert Wallace Jones is also the 21st October 1881 at Gerddi in Rhyl. He too was 3years old and died of convulsions with his father present at death. Why would the paper list the death of one child and not the other?

There is no death certificate for D P Jones. So it seems to me that the newspaper has got its facts wrong. It would be interesting if they printed an apology.

Incidentally, David Price Jones was married 1898 aged 23 and died 1955 aged 79. Birth circa 1875/6
There is a birth reg 2Q 1876 at Wrexham. The census has him aged 4 which would be correct.

Coronation Gardens opened 1952? backs onto the Botanical Gardens which I think were Edwardian.

Despair; What records are you referring to when you say the address for RWJones was the gardens?
Also (to my knowledge) DPJones did not have any children. I cannot find a birth reg for a RWJones in 1900. However your link of RWJones and DPJones in 1900 is interesting. Do you have any more detail please?

Thank you again for the work you have done.
Regards Eldon.

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Flintshire / Re: Where is 'Gerddi'
« on: Tuesday 06 December 16 21:18 GMT (UK)  »
I have been out for the evening. Thank you all for your replies. My subscription for FindMyPast has just expired and I was checking through 'my records' and I came across this address. I now think the 7 cottages were near the junction of Cefendy Road and Vale Road. Yacht farm is 7 acres and that would probably be the area where Roger Jones is now.

Thank you Despair for the paper cutting. That may have solved the brick wall that I have with this family. The death of David Price Jones is not possible because he lived to be over 70 and lived in Mostyn. There was another child Robert Wallace Jones who also died but he became my wife's grandfather. Are you still with me?

In the 1911 census this family stated that they had 8 children and 4 had died. I only knew of 7.
Now the Robert Wallace Jones died also aged about 3yrs and there is a death certificate, but they must have conceived another boy and gave him the same name, but there is no birth certificate. It now seems possible that they did the same with David Price Jones, and that could account for the missing child. Again I cannot find a second birth certificate. (The original D P jones was born 3Q 1878 at Wrexham and that corresponds to the death in the paper)
The family appear to have saved themselves the cost of 2 birth certificates.

The families births and deaths are all recorded at St Thomas in Rhyl, so I now need to check the register for the death in 1881. I have old maps of Rhyl which I copied in the library. But they are in a safe place.

Again thank you all for your replies.

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Flintshire / Re: Where is 'Gerddi'
« on: Tuesday 06 December 16 10:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Crisane: No. I found that name, but none of the property in that area was built on the 1880s.

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Flintshire / Where is 'Gerddi'
« on: Monday 05 December 16 19:52 GMT (UK)  »
The 1881 census has the address of 1, Gerddi, Rhuddlan (Flint) St Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales.
Ref: RG11,piece 5528, folio 18 page 1.

It is the home of John Edward Jones aged 29 born in Llangynog and a collector for fire act insurance.
With him is his wife and 3 children.

I have always thought that it was part of Millbank Road in Rhyl, but now I'm not sure. I think that Rhyl was still part of Rhuddlan, at this time, hence the address above. Why is Denbighshire shown in the address?

This family did settle in Rhyl and appear in subsequent censuses in Clwyd Street.

Please if anyone has the local knowledge to pinpoint the address, I would  appreciate it.
Thank you...Eldon.

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