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Glamorganshire / Re: Treorky cemetery
« on: Tuesday 14 February 06 16:56 GMT (UK)  »
I know Treorchy Cemetery quite well -  playground of my youth!

I went there recently in search of several family plots - they have had a major tidy up and removed all dangerous stones  - all of mine were missing...one of these was my grandparents, my auntie was very upset when I told her there was no longer a stone .

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Somerset / Surname interest - SAGE
« on: Sunday 12 February 06 13:03 GMT (UK)  »
I've just opened up a new branch of my tree - my G G Grandfather - Thomas Sage b 1855 in Maesteg/Pyle South Wales.

Have just discovered his parents -

Thomas Sage Snr  b c1815 Selworthy, Somerset
Elizabeth Sage  b c 1820  Exon? Somerset

They had several children, they first few born in Somerset, but from the last of their children born in Somerset was  in 1847 they then lived in the Bridgend area of South Wales. -
Ann b1845 in Withypool,
Elizabeth b1847 Exon(poss Evon?), 
George b1843 Withypool
Harriet b1857 Pyle
Jane b1859 Pyle
May b  1849 Llangynwydd
Thomas b1855 Pyle           

1871 they also have a lodger John Count b.1851 in Wesfort, Somerset.     

I'm interested in finding more details of Thomas Snr and his wife - particularly Elizabeth's maiden name.

Interestingly, on the 1871 census they are listed as 'BOTH' for languages...so they'd learnt to speak Welsh - which I'm quite impressed with as a learner myself!

I'd also like to find out more about the areas they came from for background.  I know they are near Exmoor and presume they were very rural around 1848

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Gloucestershire / Pike/Meakin
« on: Saturday 04 February 06 17:13 GMT (UK)  »
I've posted a look up request - but this is a more general query - on the off chance anyone has any info that might help.

My G Grandmoth Lil Pike was (I now know) from Clifton.  She married a miner - Robert Williams and they lived in Ystrad, Rhondda.

Lil died in 1973 aged about 95.  My father was brought up by his Gran and remembers visiting cousins in the Clifton area by the name of Meakin..apparently they had an antiques business.

I'm desperate to start making some progress on my dad's side of the family....having gone back several generations with my mother's (partly through help from this board!)

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Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Pike - Clifton?
« on: Saturday 04 February 06 17:10 GMT (UK)  »
After a year of searching for my G Grandmother in Essexx records I discovered today that my mum got muddled up and she was actually from Clifton.

Her name was Lil Pike (possibly Lily or Lilian..or any variation thereof), she died in about 1973 aged around 95, but I'm not sure of her date of birth.

She married a Robert Williams - a coal miner and they lived in Ystrad, Rhondda all their arried lives.

I haven't been able to find any likely candidates on any census...help

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Gloucestershire / Re: Gloucestershire place name
« on: Wednesday 01 February 06 16:59 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry - me again...

Have just noticed on Ancestry .co.uk they've transcribed the 1861 census as Targhartin...I've sent them a correction notification!

Wierdly I have just found William in the 1881 census (with wife no.3) living a few doors up from the first house I ever bought...still looking after horses too.

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Gloucestershire / Re: Gloucestershire place name
« on: Wednesday 01 February 06 16:23 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks all - brilliant website .

I'm fairly certain now that that's them - they seem to drop off the Tormarden census after 1851..and I've gone back another generation (with parents names for them too) - just need to piece it all together...even found a dead first wife and child...quite a story developing.

Seems like they were in Wales by 1861 and William was working as a horse keeper - not sure why I can't find them anywhere in Glamorgan in 1871 though.  Would I be right in thinking it was a very agricultural area?

The great thing about Valleys families is that they were so diverse - people met and married others from places they'd never been to - people they'd never have met if they hadn't all been thrown together in the Rhondda - I thought my Woodwards were interesting, but thhis  is getting quite good too.

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Gloucestershire / Gloucestershire place name
« on: Wednesday 01 February 06 12:16 GMT (UK)  »
I am researching a family called Haines (John Haines dob 1850c = my G G grandparent) .  He lived in Glamorgan and was a miner. On the 1901 census it states he was born in Gloucester, then on the 1891 census it says Todmorden (which I thought was in Yorkshire), 1881 - it says Tormorton.

I can't find any trace of him on the 1871 census, but I do have a possible match on the 1861 census - a family with a 9 yr old boy living in Glamorgan but all the family were born in Tacherton, Gloucestershire.

SO...is there such a place as Tacherton?  I can't find it on Google or on a map...is there a possibility Tacherton and Tormorton are one in the same?

I put myself in the hands of more knowledgeable Gloucester-philes

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Warwickshire / Re: Coventry Blitz vistims
« on: Sunday 13 November 05 19:02 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry - me again

Any Coventry-based posters able to advise about how easy/difficult London Road cemetery and Spon Street are to find - could I do both in a half-day visit?

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Warwickshire / Re: Coventry Blitz vistims
« on: Sunday 13 November 05 18:16 GMT (UK)  »
Agree totally!

I've had lots of success on here for other parts of the Woodward branch and a few other names.

I consider it one of my most useful tools.

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