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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Islington address

« on: Saturday 25 February 06 08:18 GMT (UK) »

I am researching Woodwards from Tredegar in South Wales. I have found my G Grandfather's oldest sister on the 1891 census working as a servant for 4 sisters and their elderly aunt - names as follows:

99 Petherton Road, Islington

Eliza Southall (Head) aged 52 Own means b.Lambeth
Kate " aged 43
Hannah aged 41
Emily aged 39
Elizabeth Pickard (aunt)aged 76
Sarah A Woodward aged 28 - domestic servant b Tredegar

I went on to look on the 1901 census to see if she was still there and I can't find the address - Petherton Road only goes up to about number 66. Where did it go?

I also can't find any of the Southall sisters - Did they all get married or die?

Glamorganshire / Mine records

« on: Thursday 16 February 06 18:05 GMT (UK) »

Are there records held anywhere of the names of miners employed by various pits in the Rhondda Valley throughout the 19th and early 20th century?

Glamorganshire / Pike/Williams

« on: Tuesday 14 February 06 17:15 GMT (UK) »

Me again...this time a harder quest.

I'm trying to find any records/trace of my father's grand parents. They lived in Ystrad Road, Ystrad, Rhondda and I even remember going to the house. My dad was brought up by them.

Their names were Robert Williams and Lily (Lilian?) Williams (nee Pike). Lily only died in about 1974 but I can't seem to find any trace of either of them. Both would have had a DoB around 1880

They had 3 kids - my Gran Ellen, and her brothers Spencer and Edwin

Glamorganshire / Sage family - Pyle/Maesteg

« on: Tuesday 14 February 06 17:08 GMT (UK) »

My G G G Grandfather was Thomas Sage b c 1815 in Selworthy Somerset. His wife was Elizabeth Sage. From census records and the birth details of their children it looks like they moved to Maesteg around 1848.

Their children were:

George b 1843 Withypool Somerset
Anne b 1845 Withypool
Elizabeth b 1847 Exton Somerset
May 1849 ~Llangynwydd
Thomas b1855 Maesteg (my GG Grandfather)
Harriet b 1857 Pyle
Jane b 1859 Pyle
Elizabeth Jane b 1866 Llangynwydd

Thomas Jnr moved to the Rhondda and married a Mary Davies - from then on I know plenty of details as my mum still lives in Mary Davies' house!

I'm interested in finding more info on the rest of Thomas Snr's children and what happened to them - do I have any distant relations still in Bridgend? I believe his wife may have died and he remarried. Any help with birth/marriage/death records for the family would be great.

Somerset / Surname interest - SAGE

« on: Sunday 12 February 06 13:03 GMT (UK) »

I've just opened up a new branch of my tree - my G G Grandfather - Thomas Sage b 1855 in Maesteg/Pyle South Wales.

Have just discovered his parents -

Thomas Sage Snr b c1815 Selworthy, Somerset
Elizabeth Sage b c 1820 Exon? Somerset

They had several children, they first few born in Somerset, but from the last of their children born in Somerset was in 1847 they then lived in the Bridgend area of South Wales. -
Ann b1845 in Withypool,
Elizabeth b1847 Exon(poss Evon?),
George b1843 Withypool
Harriet b1857 Pyle
Jane b1859 Pyle
May b 1849 Llangynwydd
Thomas b1855 Pyle

1871 they also have a lodger John Count b.1851 in Wesfort, Somerset.

I'm interested in finding more details of Thomas Snr and his wife - particularly Elizabeth's maiden name.

Interestingly, on the 1871 census they are listed as 'BOTH' for languages...so they'd learnt to speak Welsh - which I'm quite impressed with as a learner myself!

I'd also like to find out more about the areas they came from for background. I know they are near Exmoor and presume they were very rural around 1848

Gloucestershire / Pike/Meakin

« on: Saturday 04 February 06 17:13 GMT (UK) »

I've posted a look up request - but this is a more general query - on the off chance anyone has any info that might help.

My G Grandmoth Lil Pike was (I now know) from Clifton. She married a miner - Robert Williams and they lived in Ystrad, Rhondda.

Lil died in 1973 aged about 95. My father was brought up by his Gran and remembers visiting cousins in the Clifton area by the name of Meakin..apparently they had an antiques business.

I'm desperate to start making some progress on my dad's side of the family....having gone back several generations with my mother's (partly through help from this board!)

Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Pike - Clifton?

« on: Saturday 04 February 06 17:10 GMT (UK) »

After a year of searching for my G Grandmother in Essexx records I discovered today that my mum got muddled up and she was actually from Clifton.

Her name was Lil Pike (possibly Lily or Lilian..or any variation thereof), she died in about 1973 aged around 95, but I'm not sure of her date of birth.

She married a Robert Williams - a coal miner and they lived in Ystrad, Rhondda all their arried lives.

I haven't been able to find any likely candidates on any census...help

Gloucestershire / Gloucestershire place name

« on: Wednesday 01 February 06 12:16 GMT (UK) »

I am researching a family called Haines (John Haines dob 1850c = my G G grandparent) . He lived in Glamorgan and was a miner. On the 1901 census it states he was born in Gloucester, then on the 1891 census it says Todmorden (which I thought was in Yorkshire), 1881 - it says Tormorton.

I can't find any trace of him on the 1871 census, but I do have a possible match on the 1861 census - a family with a 9 yr old boy living in Glamorgan but all the family were born in Tacherton, Gloucestershire.

SO...is there such a place as Tacherton? I can't find it on Google or on a map...is there a possibility Tacherton and Tormorton are one in the same?

I put myself in the hands of more knowledgeable Gloucester-philes

Scotland / Curious problem

« on: Sunday 13 November 05 17:07 GMT (UK) »

OK - I'm open to suggestions...not knowing much about Scottish sherrifs or records that may exist of them.

A cousin of my grandmother - William Chamberlain left Wales and settled in Scotland somewhere (don't know where sorry!) with his wife Dolly and children Byron and Dorothy Jnr. They ran a cinema and he became the High Sherrif of whatever town it was they settled in. Will And Dolly were killed in a car accident but the family think the two children many still be alive and in Scotland.

Judging by the photograph I have the children were born around 1940-45.

Any suggestions how I could set about finding out more...are there central records of appointed Sherrifs?