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World War One / Klr - Wales ?
« on: Wednesday 20 August 08 22:58 BST (UK)  »
I have been shown a gold (?) medalion by My Mum which belonged to her grandfather  it is inscribed " The Great War" on  one side with like a clasped  design around outside. other side reads " presented to A.O. Jones  43491 KLR
citizens of newbridge. We know  he was in the army. We have a " swagger stick  which belonged to him. My Mum says he was in ireland  but he never went abroad. i googled KLR  and got the Kings liverpool regiment -  which has thrown me  as he lived  in herefordshire  and  the newbridge on the medal  was believed to be in Glamorgan  where he met my great Gran - the local regiment  did serve in ireland. nothing seems to tie up  so have i got the right result for KLR.   He survived the war   and died ironically on an army base locally serving with the ministry of supply .  Does anyone else have a medal  and why is dated  1914 ? did the klr recruit from this area or  was he possibly seconded to it  - if any one can shed any light  i 'd be grateful.

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The Lighter Side / 3 in one day
« on: Wednesday 20 August 08 21:31 BST (UK)  »
Nobody one in my family is excited about this but I need to tell  ( or brag ) about this as i think i am sooooo lucky .  Here goes  i have seen photos of all but 1 of my great grand parents  and three of them i have seen for the first time today. 7/8 ain't bad
My Mum FORGOT SHE HAD THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS .
 This isn't as exciting maybe to my parents as they knew them all  and indeed i knew two of them and had met a third when a tiny baby. The rest died before i was born  but the one who started me on this journey died in the 1920s and i have been  researching her  for 7 years i never ever thought I'd know what she looked like and now i do. I also have lots of scanning  and copying to disc to do . Hope  you all  understand my ravings but i needed to let it  out .  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D 8)

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Wales / coates llanstadwell
« on: Sunday 18 November 07 20:38 GMT (UK)  »
my g grandmother was a Dorcas Coates  from Llanstadwell. ihave her on the 1881 and 1901 census . she married 1919 in Pembroke to a David John Williams. she had two brothers George and Samuel whom i can find nothing about after 1901. Also on all the census i have seen it reads husband at sea and gives the mother Elizabeth as head.  the address i have are middle street llanstadwell and James street neyland. because Dorcas died when my Gran was three she knew nothing about her mother. so does anyone have any info to help me - i am about to send for her marriage certificate as i have only just traced where she married.

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