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Glamorganshire / Re: Workhouse Death
« on: Wednesday 24 March 21 14:51 GMT (UK)  »
If you're looking for burials, Cardiff City Council have an excellent search facility. You can download a form from their bereavement department. You can ask for five searches for twenty pounds and they search all cemeteries. I've recently had some searches done and they sent me a copy of the entry in the burial book, including the actual cost of the funeral and plans of the cemetery - Cathays in this instance - with the relevant graves highlighted.  There is a plan of the whole cemetery and one of the relevant section. It was all done by a very helpful lady called Elaine.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Cardiff Workhouse
« on: Wednesday 24 March 21 14:41 GMT (UK)  »
If you search for Union Workhouse, St. John, Cardiff a great deal of information will appear including the census of 1881 showing lists of staff and inmates. You can see if she was still there at the age of two and it may show her parent(s) too.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: John Evans and interesting family names
« on: Thursday 05 November 20 17:56 GMT (UK)  »
I have done an extensive family tree for this family for a friend. Hardicanute was his great-grandfather. If you are a member of any genealogy site maybe I can give you access to it.


Lesleyann

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Obituary of a cousin in Toronto
« on: Tuesday 06 October 20 13:14 BST (UK)  »
Thank you.  That's a great help because it shows that the argument over the house must have been before 1972. We last saw Alex and Maud when they visited Wales just after my marriage in 1971. They were unable to come to the wedding.

Lesleyann

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Obituary of a cousin in Toronto
« on: Monday 05 October 20 18:12 BST (UK)  »
Yes, he was a clerk and I think Maud was a typist. My father wrote on the photograph before sending them - there are several more - to my mother in Wales.

Thanks for all the information.  I'll look at it now.

Lesleyann

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Obituary of a cousin in Toronto
« on: Monday 05 October 20 12:32 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Don.  I have a photograph of my father with some RAF friends outside a house and he's written the date, 1942 and Niantic Crescent, Toronto, on the back. Obviously not the same one, then.  Back to the drawing board!


Lesleyann

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Obituary of a cousin in Toronto
« on: Sunday 04 October 20 16:54 BST (UK)  »
Maud and Alex emigrated when they were children and married in Toronto in 1924. Both children were born in Toronto.  My father used to visit them during the war when he was with the RAF in Canada. That would have been in the early 1940s and they were in the house in Niantic Crescent then. I seem to remember someone telling me there'd been a bit of a family feud when the house next door went up for sale and both Grant and Shirley-Joyce wanted to buy it. Grant lost the argument and was estranged from Shirley-Joyce after that.

Lesleyann

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Obituary of a cousin in Toronto
« on: Sunday 04 October 20 16:13 BST (UK)  »
Thanks both.  It's really strange that he seems to have just vanished.  I do know the daughters' and son's names from Grant's mother's funeral but, as they are still living, I'm reluctant to put them here. The daughters may well have married so their names would have changed.
 I'm very grateful for your help.

Lesleyann

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Obituary of a cousin in Toronto
« on: Wednesday 30 September 20 18:33 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for that. The time it was sold would coincide with the probable date I have for Grant's death. His parents lived in Niantic Crescent which doesn't seem very far away.

Lesleyann

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