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Pembrokeshire / Re: Catherine Batson
« on: Monday 14 August 17 22:07 BST (UK)  »
Hello rjhh,
Thank you for your information posted yesterday (13AUG2017).  I passed Carthouse Green farm yesterday on my way from Pembroke Dock to Angle.  It looks to be well kempt but is now a private house not a farm.
As Catherine BATSON is your great great grandmother and her sister Sarah Anne is my great  grandmother, we are related (but I'm not sure of the exact relationship).  Sarah Anne is buried in Castlemartin.
I'm pretty sure that when my grandfather Mark ROCH (Sarah Anne's last child) died, one of the mourners was a Sourfield. I will check.  Mark ROCH and his wife Amy Gwendoline (nee Willing) are buried in Lanion Cemetery, Pembroke Dock.
Regards,     RIJ

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Catherine Batson
« on: Saturday 09 January 16 19:31 GMT (UK)  »
Catherine BATSON was the daughter of Elizabeth BATSON  b1831 and recorded in the 1881 census of Pembroke Union Workhouse as unmarried, aged 50, a pauper, domestic servant, birthplace Angle Pembrokeshire.  Her sisters were Sarah Anne b1833 and Mary b1834.

Elizabeth BATSON (Elizabeth Mary) was the daughter of John BATSON (1790-1864) (buried Pwllcrochan) and Sarah nee THOMAS (1798-1859).

John BATSON's parents were Peter BATSON (?-1810) and Anne GRIFFITHS (1798-1859).  They were married at Pwllcrochan in 1781.   She was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth GRIFFITHS.

Peter BATSON was 'of Bullwell' and there remains today Bullwell Bay within the jetty of the Rhoscrowther oil refinery.  Old maps show that there was a ferry from Bullwell due north across Milford Haven to Milford.  In the old days it might be easier to get to Milford Haven than Pembroke.

This might explain why some Batsons could be found north of the haven - such as Jane BATSON who ran a boarding and day school in Short Row, Haverfordwest in 1830.
 
DOCMAN

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Catherine Batson
« on: Saturday 09 January 16 18:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hello welshbear,
I hope that you are still interested in the Batson family of Bluewell, Pwllcrochan.  Catherine was the first of three daughters born to John and Sarah Batson.  I am a descendent of her sister Sarah Ann who married Mark Roch and farmed Penyholt Farm Castlemartin.  Sarah Anne was a formidable woman, having about eleven children and, as a widow, farming over 300 acres.  She is my great grandmother and I have photos of her.  I am engaged in researching her father  John who may have been a child prodigy:  I possess his school mathematic books written in the most immaculate copperplate  handwriting - although he was only aged 14 (1804) at the time.  Sarah Anne is buried in Castlemartin cemetery.
Please get in touch - I live in Pembroke Dock,    RIJ

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