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David Fido (1838) married Sarah Ann Brown (1844) 16 May 1864 in Corsham,Wiltshire,England
His Parents were William Fido (1792) and Hannah Battle (1788) married 16 Jun 1813  Bristol, England

I Hope this helps. Joe
(I have dozens of Fido's in my Corsham area tree)

I am now on the hunt for the other Richard.

I have received confirmation for the Richard Artus death.


He is indeed buried in our cemetery, Our register entry reads;
JONES Mr R A Richard
AMDGW Clerk of Works 20 8 57 43
4 B 8 Habbaniya Heart Failure & bronchopneumonia

Thank you Vicky.
You have spent so much time and effort to pass on all of this information.
Have you had time to read the emails I have sent to you.
Kind regards Joe

My grannie was Barbara jane jones b.1894  (***She was my great aunt***)

he had brothers Ralph and Earnest both in the Guards who were both killed WW1 and are buried in France.

***Ralf signed up for the Coldstream Gaurds 15th Feb 1907. No. 7152
Here there is some confusion as Ralf was my grandfather and died 18 Jan 1953 in Croydon Surrey.
He left the gaurds and became a policeman as far as I am aware. Can you help to prove my
informaton true or false? ***

There were lots of relatives in Corshamside and Neston. She had another brother Fred  who became
a policeman  married Olive and moved to Bristol and then London they had twin girls.

***My Fred was baptised 02 May 1880 - Neston. Married 1905 Lambeth,London to Ellen Light ??
Had twin daughters Olive Ellen Jones and Margaret May Jones in 1907 also Violet Ivy in 1909.
All 3 born in Lambeth.***

A sister Alice who worked at the Wills  tobacco factory in Bristol  ,
 Joyce who lived in Devizes,( ***I have 11 children in all but no Joyce?***)
 Edith (***Edith Sarah Emily Jones baptised 3 Aug 1884 - Neston***) who married
Tom Sawyer (*** I have married Albert Charles Sawyer 1910 Neston***)
and lived with her daughter in Stafford, and my favourite Auntie Nell - Ellen -
 married James Cainey and lived at Walcot Bath. ***Eunice Ellen Jones - 11 Mar 1890***
*** married James Andrew Cainey 1915 Chippenham district****
Miriam M. 1919 - Bath and Gilbert 1924 also Bath district

There was a George (***a differnt branch born to William and Emily) - yes the
 Edgar Hansard Jones was his son and a few more all with Posh names -

****They had 11 children all with posh names Annetta Louisa Jones
Augustas Hansard Jones - Bernard Milton Jones - Stanley Hector Jones
Edgar Hansard Jones to name a few.***

 he worked at the big pit at Blaenavon and then on the Railway at Swindon.There was also a relative
 who owned a mink farm inCanada- they visited in1950.

James jones was in the marines and lived at St Anthony Cornwall ***He was the son of
Austin James Jones. James married 1945 Plymouth. I have seen his house at St Antony
as I now live in Plymouth.
 (He died he boxed for the Army...I believe they originated from the Forest of Dean
  a lot of them ending up as miners at Blaenavon.Can give you more info 
if needed got most of mine from the Mormon website.Excellent.

Many thanks for that - just found it on Ancestry.

I have also found baptism there.

Thank you for your help. Murphy's law dictates that I would at last find the info a short time after posting.

Now trying to confirm Rebecca's parents.