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Herefordshire / Haywood House, Whitecross Road....anyone?!
« on: Wednesday 18 May 11 21:27 BST (UK)  »
Relatives of mine, Thomas Smith & his wife Eliza Ann (nee Owen) were apparently the governor and matron of an "asylum" (of some sort) at this address at some time between 1870s and 1900.  My computer searches have not turned up anything on the property and its history at all.  I should love to know more about it; and so just wondered if there were any kind local historians out there who could provide me with any information on it?

Many thanks! :-*

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Technical Help / can't post my photo -- please help!
« on: Monday 16 May 11 19:23 BST (UK)  »
just tried to post a photo for dating on Rootschat but it didn't attach.  instead, got message: "your attachment couldn't be saved.  this might happen because it took too long to upload or the file is bigger than the server will allow."  photo wasn't scanned -- I simply took a photo of it. :-[
can anybody advise me what to do?  sorry, I am not very computer literate.  many thanks!

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this hopefully is photo of man born 1788 and wife born 1801.  regret I don't have access to original.  you can see it has square corners; and I am guessing from this and front-on formal pose that it is fairly early.  in terms of their clothing, if it helps, we know he was a teacher of caligraphy in 1851 & 1861 censuses but nothing known before that.  also, they lived in Wales and the Scottish Highlands (she spent most of her childhood & young adulthood in the latter) as well as England.  They married in 1832 in Lancs. 
A date for the photo would be much appreciated; and also, from the little info. I've been able to give about them, does anyone see anything inconsistent with this being a photo of this couple?  most grateful for all assistance. 

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Denbighshire / Look up request: Thomas & Margaret Davies
« on: Wednesday 04 May 11 22:28 BST (UK)  »
Hello! 

Would be extremely grateful for any info. on married couple, engineer Thomas & Margaret Davies (would love to learn her maiden name!) who moved away from this area somewhere between 1801 and 1804.  I know Margaret was born in 1760 +/- one year.  Sadly, have no info. on Thomas's d.o.b.; nor when they were married -- would really love to know about these.  Also have the names of their children, if it helps -- going from oldest to youngest: Thomas, Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret, Mary, Owen, John, Anne, Joseph, Jane, Edward.  Of these, I know Anne was born in Denbighshire in c1801, but I am not sure of the birthplace of her younger (nor, indeed, with certainty, her older) siblings.

Many thanks for reading this and really would appreciate any assistance anyone can give!

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Montgomeryshire / Rodger/Roger Owen, born c1789 Machynileth
« on: Saturday 30 April 11 20:47 BST (UK)  »
Hello!
I'd be extremely grateful for any help tracing info. about -- especially parents and siblings of -- the above: my great, great grandfather.
What I presently know (thanks to very helpful postings elsewhere on this site) is that he married Anne, daughter of Thomas Davies of Inverness, in Preston, Lancashire on 2nd April 1832 -- at which time he is described as a widower.  What brought him (and Anne, then aged about 30) to Lancashire is a complete mystery.  They had 3 children: Eliza, born 1833 and Owen Davies, born 1835 -- both in England; and Roger Jones Owen, born in 1841 in Ayr, Scotland. (Would dearly love to know why he moved around so much!) Scottish censuses of 1851 and 1861 describe his occupation as 'teacher of penmanship' and 'teacher of caligraphy; but his daughter's marrriage certificate of 1879 gives her (then deceased) father's occupation as 'attorney'!  (Did he perhaps work in attorneys' offices, teaching the type of penmanship required to write legal documents, and his daughter perhaps not quite understand what he did?)
This is my first posting -- just joined today!
ANY help anyone can give would be very much appreciated.

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