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Hi Louise,
Thanks for getting back to me - it's quite a while since I put the info regarding Jessie Maria Halfyard and Philip Henry Jones on this chat site. I also apologise for taking two weeks to respond - just been very busy with this and that.

You say that Jessie Halfyard and Philip Jones are your 2x great grandparents. As I know the descendants of their first child, Ada Mary Jones, I must assume that you are descended from one of their other three children: their second child, Arthur Henry Jones who married Edith Ruscoe, or their third child, George Herbert Jones who married Maria Williams and who themselves had three children Arthur Henry, Joseph Edwin and Alexander (i.e three grandchildren of Jessie Halfyard and Philip Henry Jones); or their third child, Jessie Florence Jones who married Joseph Blaylock. Which of the three are you descended from?

My interest in Jessie Maria Halfyard and Philip Henry Jones is through my wife - JMH and PHJ are also her 2 x great grandparents, descended from their first child Ada Mary Jones and her spouse, George Frederick Jones.

My wife and I live in Perth, Western Australia and I would be more than happy to update you with the information that I have on the family and why you are corresponding with someone in Western Australia on this topic. My personal email is b.connell@ecu.edu.au - but this runs out in about 5 weeks, so you need to respond ASAP to that address and we can continue the correspondence via our personal emails. Alternatively, you can reply to lyan01@westnet.com.au, but I'm not monitoring the last address at the moment, only when the first address runs out.

I look forward to hearing from you Louise at your earliest convenience.

Cheers

Bryan

A couple of my ancestors were born in Galway: in 1862 and 1867 respectively. Later English censuses (the family went to live in Liverpool from the 1870s onward - they originally came from Liverpool and went backwards and forwards from Ireland to Liverpool a couple of times in the 1850s and 1860s) show these two people shown as born in "Galway, Kong" or "Galway, Cong". Does anybody know what this means? The children's father was a land broker/agent and it seems that he worked either in Galway or County Down (Belfast, Grey Abbey) while in Ireland.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Cheers

Bryan

Hi Dave,
I have visited the Leodis website run by Keith Feeney and am not getting anywhere. Have I got the right website? What is the URL to the one you referred to?

Cheers

Bryan

What happened to George Herbert Jones,  born 5t July 1875 in Oswestry, Shropshire? In 1896 he married Maria Williams in Burnley, Lancashire and by 1901 was living in Burley Village, Kirkstall area of the West Riding of Yorkshire. He and his family were still there in 1911. George Herbert Jones followed the profession of iron and brass molder. George and Maria Jones had (at least) three children: Arthur Henry Jones, born Burnley, Lancs. in 1897, Joseph Edwin Jones, born Burley, Kirkstall in February, 1901 and Alexander Jones born May 1909 in Burley, Kirkstall. Joseph Edwin Jones migrated to Canada, but it is not when or where in Canada he settled. He may have gone to join his cousin, Stanley Coling Jones (son of George Herbert Jones' elder sister Ada Mary Jones) who went to Canada in November 1919. I don't know what look-ups to check out to work out their movements as the 20th Century progressed and If anyone knows what records to check to determine their later movements, I would appreciate it. Many thanks and cheers.

Bryan

Many thanks for help and suggestions. I will follow them up. The Hamilton Salari's may be related, but I think that the Burlington people are the ones.

Cheers

Bryan