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The Common Room / Re: Where did George Jones come from!?
« on: Friday 17 December 21 10:55 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your help everyone! I think I'll have to follow breadcrumbs on possible leads and see if I bump into Moccas again on any of them! Here goes... :)

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The Common Room / Re: Where did George Jones come from!?
« on: Tuesday 14 December 21 18:33 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Marg! This could be him. But then, so could some other entries? And Monmouth is a fair bit away from wherelse we have him.
This reference to Moccas is really confounding me.
H

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The Common Room / Re: George Jones on the run since 2013
« on: Tuesday 14 December 21 09:10 GMT (UK)  »
Yes I'm pretty stumped by it.
There is an 1881 census return which shows a George Jones (b.1862 in Llanfrynach), single and servant to Thomas Jones' family in Llangorse.
Sometimes I wonder whether that's him but can't be sure? What do you think?

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The Common Room / Re: George Jones on the run since 2013
« on: Monday 13 December 21 17:39 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry for slow replies.
George's father was Thomas, a labourer according to the 1883 marriage. He was not recorded as deceased so he may have been alive in 1883.

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The Common Room / George Jones on the run since 2013
« on: Monday 13 December 21 16:40 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all, back in 2013 I posted about my struggles to find where George Jones had come from. We didn't solve it then but maybe we can do it now we are more experienced!

Where did George Jones come from?

circa 3 Apr 1860 - George was born
1883 - married, living in Treberfen, Llangasty parish
1891 - birthplace Llanfrynach, Breconshire
1901 - birthplace Moccas Herefordshire
1911 - birthplace Llanfrynach, Breconshire

It seems to me that either he was born in the llanfrynach area and 1901 is an error or he moved into the area from herefordshire before marrying in 1883. So far no joy from chasing witnesses to the marriage or possible leads in other censuses.

---for your info if you wanted to look these up---
m. Esther Evans (b.1862)
children: William, Mary Anne, Caroline J, George, Edith, Johnny and Frances

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Amazing, thanks! Leversuch it is, I am finding new records which are matching perfectly.

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Hey all!
Please see the last record. The surname is Jeffery but I can't decipher the alias.
Bonus question: Why might folk have an alias?

Thank you all very much!!

P.S. I tried to attach a png/jpg but the file was too big, hence the pdf.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / .
« on: Thursday 05 August 21 11:17 BST (UK)  »
.apologies, this is a duplicated post, could it be deleted?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: How does one catch gonorrhoea?
« on: Friday 11 June 21 23:27 BST (UK)  »
My sincerest apologies to all who may have been offended by the title! I will use boring ones from now on. That said, I quite enjoyed the drama which has come of this.
Enormous thank you to those who have helped me decipher how Francis caught gonorrhoea: contagion.

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