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Hoping someone can help - I have all census info for my great grandfather Thomas Roger Rees but trying to establish where he was born.
He gives his date of birth as 20 March 1845 in the front of the family bible (started by he and his wife) and states place of birth was Treforest but there is no birth registered for him held in the Pontypridd registrars office. In 1851, the family were living in Treforest and he was aged 5. In 1861, they were living in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne when he was aged 16 and place of birth Aberdare. He married in Stockton on Tees 24 July 1866 and gives his age as 20. In 1871 he was in Hartlepool aged 26 living with his parents while his wife and children were living with her parents - his place of birth given as Monmouthshire. I've just paid for yet another birth certificate (which isn't him). His wife remarried in 1880 as a widow but the only death I can find between 1871 and 1880 for Thomas is also in 1880 and this persons age is given as 33. There are no births or deaths with middle name Roger, so I'm looking for a needle in a Welsh haystack full of Rees! Can anyone help?
many thanks
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