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Dear all,I have been researching the Spark etc.family in Somerset and South Wales.The earliest record I have is a marriage in Burnham on 6/april/1796 between John Sparke(b.~1772) and Jane Palmer(b.1776).John and Jane had a son Joel(1802-1846) Sparks.Joel married Elizabeth Palfrey in 1823 Bridgwater.Joel had a son Michael christened 25/sept/1825 in Chedzoy.Michael married Lucy Whale in Newport,Monmouthshire in 1857(j/a/s).Michael and Lucy had a son Joel(b.~1862) b.Cardiff who married Annie Richards in Cardiff(Roath) 1881(o/n/d).Joel and Annie had a son William Henry b. Cardiff 1883.William Henry Sparks married Edith Annie Weston in 1908(a/m/j)Cardiff.William Henry had a son Ivor (Edgar)Sparkes(b.1909(o/n/d) who married Dorothy M Phillips in 1934 in Pontypridd(Glamorgan).I would be grateful if anyone can go back earlier than the marriage in 1796 Burnham..kind regards Ivorglyn

I have been researching the Gundy family from Whichurch for many years.Walter Gundy and Betty Davis married 6/oct/1788 in Whitchurch.They had 8 children:John b.1788(my ggggrandfather),Walter b.1791(married Sarah Clayton 18/feb/1823 in Whitchurch),Thomas b.1793 married Mary Lewis on 2/mar/1819 in Tretire,Sarah b.1797Tretire married Benjamin Hunt in 1827 Whitchurch,Joseph b.1801,Henry b.1805 married Jane Williams,Elizabeth b.1807 in Whitchurch/Tretire,and Esther who married Thomas Galder on 9/june/1835 in Whitchurch.
Walter b.~1791 and Sarah Clayton had 5 children:Caroline b.1825,Walter b.~1827,Esther b.1830,Mary b.1831, and James b.1834.
I believe that Walter b.~1827 married  Ellen Eyre(born Gloucestershire and on the 1841Census living in Clifton) in Crickhowell in 1854.They had 5 children:Mary Ann Gundy b.Crickhowell(Llangenny(i)1856,Charlotte Ann b.1864 Crickhowell,Walter Thomas b.1866 Crickhowell,Lucy Esther(Hester) b.1868 b.Crickhowell and married in 1892 in Monmouth reg. to either John Llewellyn or Charles Miles Morgan,and Elizabeth Clara Gundy born 1870 in Monmouth reg.
I am trying to find out what happened to all of the children of Walter and Ellen.I found a death record for a Walter Thomas Gundy for 8/nov/1916 in Putney Vale cemetry in Wandsworth Surrey but there is no age given.I also found an 1881E census record for a Walter Gundy b.1867 in Dartford,Kent staying at "Little boys home",South Darenth,Horton-Kirby.I would be grateful if anyone has any information for the children of Walter Gundy and Ellen Eyre.The family moved back to Whitchurch and are on the 1871E census..kind regards Ivorglyn.

Dear all,There are 28 baptisms for Yates in Ketton cum Tixover in the 1700s ranging from 1733 to 1798.There are 2 in the 1790s:John Peter Yates 17 july 1792 parents John Yates and Ann,Dorothy Yates 15/july 1798 parents John Yates and Ann.I wonder if Elizabeth Yates b.Ketton ~1795 had parents John Yates and Ann?..kind regards to all Ivorglyn

Dear all,I found a marriage record for Haddon on 7 oct 1778 between Thomas Nathe and Hannah Lister...kind regards to all Ivorglyn

Dear all,There is an 1851 E census record for St Anne Soho,London for Edward Neath b.Huntingdonshire aged 26,wife Martha b.1823 Herefordshire and son Charles Neath aged 5 b.St James Westminster.I found a marriage in jan 1846 in London between Edward Neath and Martha Parry.Does anyone have a record for the birth of an Edward Neath in Huntingdonshire and the parents of Edward Neath?regards to all Ivorglyn