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Thank you for the reply.

I am new to Norfolk research so still trying to locate places properly along with the appropriate churches etc.

My gggrandfather Richard Lewis of Glamorgan married an Elizabeth Cozens(born about 1848) somewhere in the early to mid 1870s.
Elizabeth calaims to come from Drayton in Norfolk and I believe their eldest child Elizabeth Mary Elmira Lewis was born there according to BMD.

Richard was a private in the Royal Welsh Fusilliers and moved around. My great grandfather was born in Gibraltar. ( very useful fact in tracing Richard Lewis' in Wales) The next child was born in Plymouth and then he left the army in 1881.

I am trying to find a means of connecting Elizabeth Cozens to a family in Drayton as I cannot find a marriage and therefore a father's name.

I think I may have located the correct one but was looking for more than co-incidenes to be certain.

There is a family with a father Benjamin and mother Eliza. One of Richard and Elizabeh's children was called Benjamin and another Amelia which could be named after one of her sisters.

After leaving the army the family returned to Glamorgan and I have had no other connections wit Norfolk.

Any suggestions of confirming Elizabeth Cozens family would be gratefully received.

Jane

Success

I found the marriage of the younger Walter Slee to Ethel S K Morgan in Cardiff in 1911!!

Alos on the immigration records is one of his cousins Arthur Slee who came via Vancouver.

Many thanks this a major step onwards

Jane

Does any body know anything about Harriet and Walter Slee who moved from Barry South Wales to Mannville Alberta somewhere in the early 20th century. The only reason that I know they moved is a google search that produced a query from one of their descendants. Unfortunatly this was about 5 years ago and I cannot make contact now. I cannot find the Slees in the 1911 census.

Mannville when they moved must have been real frontier land and as inexperienced farmers they must have moved on to BC quite fast.

Anybody heard of the Slees?

JAne

I am new to research in Norfolk and wonder if somebody could set me in the right direction.
My family come from Drayton and when I search directly on the LDS Family search I do find relevant individuals but cannot find a link for Drayton on the batch site searches. Does Drayton come a under a different parish?

Thanks
Jane