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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Name confirmation
« on: Monday 09 May 22 16:57 BST (UK)  »
We have always thought this name was Mary Hughes but we are not 100% sure as this name does not relate to any other document we can find.

Can someone please confirm what name this is.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Word Decipher
« on: Friday 08 October 21 17:32 BST (UK)  »
We are trying to figure out which insurance companies my 2nd great grandfather worked for. We know he worked for Empire Marine insurance until they went bust.

But on his 1901 Cencus he is retired but there is a line that says retired insurance agent and below it there is something crossed out that says retired from .....?? and that is the word we cannot seem to figure out.

Any help would be great.

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World War Two / Amos Hartley - RASC
« on: Friday 01 March 19 16:58 GMT (UK)  »
I've been doing some research into a family member Amos Hartley born 1918. I believe he joined the RASC in 1936 as a Driver his Regimental number is T/64660.

I have only managed to find a medal roll which says he was in Palestine 1938 and returned to the UK in 1939. But that is it I cannot seem to find anything else on him at all, its as if he never existed.

I have searched all the usual places National Archives, ancestry, find my past, forces war records but the medal roll is all I can seem to find.

Can anyone help me and point me in the right direction on where I could find more information on is service?

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Carmarthenshire / Williams Family - Cwmllethryd Fawr
« on: Thursday 21 June 18 16:35 BST (UK)  »
I've been doing my family tree for a while now but I've come a little unstuck when it comes to my grandmothers family.

So I have her grandfather as Henry Williams (born - 1849 in Llanelly) and his wife Lousia (married 1878) living at Cwmellethryd Fawr up until 1881.

But then Louisa dies in 1890 but on her death certificate she is the widow of William Williams (Henry's brother) and their 3 daughters are living with William and he is down as their father on the 1891 census.

But I cant see to find out when Henry Died? also is it likely for Louisa to marry his brother or did they just say that he was her husband after Henry died? I cant find a marriage between Louisa and William?


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Carmarthenshire / Re: Williams in Wales
« on: Wednesday 19 April 17 21:52 BST (UK)  »
hi everyone,

sorry for the late reply. All this information has been amazing and very interesting.

So from what I can gather Louisa and Henry are living on the farm in 1881 but then in 1891 their 3 daughters are living with William Williams their uncle.

I have bought Louisa's death certificate and it says she dies 12 Dec 1890 the wife of William Williams, But on her daughter Louisa's birth certificate (21st Oct 1887) the fathers name is still Henry Williams (now a hay merchant) so I am assuming Henry dies some time between 1887 and 1891 but I am yet to find a marriage to William or a death for Henry.

Unless Louisa and William didn't actually marry and he just said that she was his wife when she died (is that possible?)   

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Carmarthenshire / Re: Williams in Wales
« on: Saturday 15 April 17 09:38 BST (UK)  »
this is all really helpful, thank you. Thats really confirming the family stories that the 3 girls where orphaned at an early age, so if the mother Louisa died 1890 the girls would have been between 15 and 3 years old but 1891 they are living with there uncle, so what happened to henry?

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Carmarthenshire / Re: Williams in Wales
« on: Friday 14 April 17 21:36 BST (UK)  »
The ages are a little bit different but I've found they can be with these records. yes Henry does have a brother William, so this could definitely be correct but what happened to their parents? why are they with their uncle?

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Carmarthenshire / Re: Williams in Wales
« on: Friday 14 April 17 21:15 BST (UK)  »
Thats all really helpful,  Thank you and that newspaper article is really interesting but I'm struggling to see what happened to them from then, because the family story is that the 3 girls where sent to live with an aunt who treated them like slaves but I cant seem to find deaths to match Henry and louisa to explain why this would have happened.


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Carmarthenshire / Re: Williams in Wales
« on: Friday 14 April 17 18:27 BST (UK)  »
hi,

yeah that's the one, they all seem to be there until about 1871 then I can't seem to track them.

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