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The Common Room / Thomas/Samuel marriage
« on: Saturday 29 July 17 21:33 BST (UK)  »
I've been trying to track down my husband's grandmother's first marriage (she died before his birth and since his parents split up when he was little we can't ask his father)  His father goes by the name Sam (nothing to do with his real name) and it was/is because his elder brothers surname were all Samuels

She was born Margaret Thomas - 31st Jan 1912, died Margaret Breacher (both in Pontypridd)
She remarries in 1955, their only child was born in 1956

I looked on the 1939 register and she's on there as Margaret Breacher (Samuel) in Mountain Ash UD
There is a Thomas Samuel also on there (born 1897) and one more record which is locked

Am I correct in thinking this would mean their marriage is prior to 1939?

Any help would be appreciated

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The Common Room / Occasional copy
« on: Wednesday 17 May 17 16:03 BST (UK)  »
Looked up a birth on the gro index and was met with this

MORGAN, JOHN       (mothers maiden name) PROSSER     
GRO Reference: 1893  M Quarter in PONTYPRIDD  Volume 11A  Page 494  Occasional Copy: B

Any ideas what that means (the page on freeBMD is listed as 494b but I've never noticed a page have a letter after before

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The Common Room / Missing Grandfather
« on: Sunday 14 May 17 18:48 BST (UK)  »
My husbands grandfather went missing sometime in late 1960/ early 1961, apparently he went to get a packet of cigarettes and never came home.

I've never asked on here before because I know we aren't allowed to track down living people and his daughter believes he may be alive, however I was looking up his parents on the 1939 register and he is on there.

As he was born 1932 his record should be closed unless he has died - so I thought I'd ask rootschatters to help find his death

Gwynfryn D Morgan born in Trehafod, Pontypridd 4th Feb 1932 to David and Edith

As far as I'm aware his wife never had him declared dead - believing he had left her,
 rumours are/were that he had gone up the Rhondda (Unfortunately she has died so I can't ask her)

Can anyone track him down for me - mods if his record being open on the 1939 register isn't enough proof of his death I'm very sorry

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Warwickshire / Why move? Lawley Street
« on: Monday 08 May 17 17:13 BST (UK)  »
It may be that noone can help and I won't find out the reason however figured I'd try

My grandparents were living at 1 court 3 Lawley Street, Birmingham in the 1939 survey

By the time my dad was born in 1947 they had moved down the street to 1 back 79 Lawley Street, Birmingham

I know they were both back to back houses but was wondering if some were bigger than others - or if court 3 was bombed maybe?

Just seems strange to me to move in the same street (they moved out when rehoused due to slum demolition

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The Common Room / Bigamist in my tree?
« on: Friday 03 March 17 21:49 GMT (UK)  »
Wondering if my 5th times great grandfather was a bigamist or if I have two George Stevens confused

This is what I have found

George Stevens

On 1841 census George Stevens aged 40, a farmer, in Barrow Somerset with wife Mary (nee King) and 8 children  (maiden name taken from their youngests birth certificate)

On 1851 census (and 1861) Mary is still married (and listed as farmer rather than farmers wife) with some of the 8 children - but no husband

Found a death record for George in Australia from 1875 (aged 76) - wife listed as Mary King and 10 children (8 of the names match the children in the 1841 census), he's still a farmer.  OK he's emigrated and left his family I can accept that, especially as Mary never lists herself as a widow

This would set up a birth in 1799 rather than 1801 - however due to the rounding of the 1841 I'm not that concerned

However he appears to have gone to Australia on the Neleus in 1854 (aged 55) - with a Lydia Stevens (aged 36) and Joseph Stevens (aged 5)

There is a 1851 census in Newport, south wales with a George Stevens born 1799 in Burrow Somerset, with his wife Lydie (aged 36) and son Joseph (aged 2)

And there is a potential 1848 marriage in Newport between George Stevens and Lydia Parker

What are peoples thoughts and any idea of how I can prove (or disprove) this theory

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The Common Room / Catching syphilis
« on: Saturday 17 December 16 13:06 GMT (UK)  »
Is there any way to calculate roughly when someone would have caught syphilis?

My gr, gr grandfather was born in 1861
married in 1883
first child born 1885 (my greatgrandmother lived till she was 56)
second child born and died 1886
third child born and died 1887
fouth child born and died 1888
fifth child born 1889 (lived till his 70s)
sixth child born and died 1891
seventh child born 1892 (lived till his 80s)
eighth child born and died 1893
ninth child born 1894 died 1895 (8 months)
tenth child born and died 1896
eleventh child born 1897 (mother died in childbirth he then died 13 months later)

in 1909 he was admitted to a lunatic asylum with GPI (tertiary syphilis)
he died 1911 of the same

I know I have heard there tends to be a pattern with children dying - but can't find it - and wondered if it could be worked out from the pattern of his childrens deaths (I'm assuming he passed it on to his wife who passed it to the children)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Delivered a baby after death
« on: Monday 14 November 16 21:05 GMT (UK)  »
Not sure if anyone can make more sense of this clip than I can - I came across it as one of the other burials is mine - however I also have some Lasbury's from West Harptree in my tree so this one that has intrigued me is probably related in some way
This is looking at Burials in 1779

Mary Lasbury, Sept 16
Delivered a baby at ????? visitation
at Keynsham Sept 22

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The Common Room / ?Twin Puzzle
« on: Saturday 05 November 16 13:34 GMT (UK)  »
Using the gro indexes to try and find a missing child I have come across one who I think fits

My great grandfather
Arthur Weston - born 13 Dec 1901 in East Harptree, registered Jan quarter 1902 (no middle name) - mmn Saunders - vol 5c p 439, baptised Jan 7th 1902 in East Harptree (no middle name) - son of William, labourer, and Emily.  When he died his middle name was given as Frank - as far as I'm aware he was Arthur Frank and this was used as his middle name

Potential Missing child

Frank Weston - registered Jan quarter 1902 - mmn Saunders - same volume and page as Arthur
baptised Jan 26th 1902 in East Harptree - son of William, labourer and Emily Jane
There is a death in Clutton (right registration district) for Frank Weston in the March quarter of 1902 - but age shows as 3 (but others have pointed out if the age was in months it seems to show up as years - he could have been 3 months old and died in this quarter - on ancestry the index shows as 0 years - so I suspect it is a 3 months one

Points in favour of my theory
Arthur's mother full name was Emily Jane Saunders
All the other Weston/Saunders birth in Clutton in this period are 'my' family
The births being registered one after the other suggests twins to me
Arthur adopts Franks name as his middle name
I do remember being told when younger my great grandfather was a twin (but I thought it was my other Weston ggf - but never found a trace of this twin)

Points against it
Why would they baptise twins seperately?  (there are two other baptisms on the 12th in between these two baptisms - and both performed by the same rector)

Any thoughts

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The Common Room / Working out the mother
« on: Friday 05 August 16 08:17 BST (UK)  »
I know the only way I'll know for definite is to buy the birth certificate but this one is quite a way down my list of ones to buy

Basically have been looking into husband's family and on his great, great grandfather's war record there is an illegitimate child listed (along with her date of birth) - Henry Holman

Violet May born 10th October 1903
Henry was married 2nd Dec 1906 in Exeter, which is where he was born so I figured the obvious place to look for a birth was Exeter

In the right quarter there is a Violet May Wright, and I think I've found her on the 1911 census living with her grandparents.
The 1911 census are as listed (haven't put names as not sure if we are allowed to for the 1911 census)
Head of House (aged 59)
His wife (aged 58) married 32 years, had 9 children 5 still allowed
Single daughter (aged 26)
Single daughter (aged 23)
Grandaughter - Violet May - aged 7
Married daughter (aged 27)
Grandaughter (aged 1 - she has the same surname as the married daughter)

Would it appear logical that Violet May is the daughter of the 23 year old daughter?

For full disclosure the woman Henry married in 1906 is another daughter of the same family and is 28 in the 1911 census but had been living in Wales for over a year (they have 3 children living with them) - so Violet could have been the 28 year olds but then why wouldn't she have been living with them (and wouldn't the subsequent marriage have legitimised her?) and why list her between two seperate daughters when filling in the census

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