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Durham / Re: Rees Jones - Stockton
« on: Wednesday 28 October 09 21:14 GMT (UK) »
forgot to say - his widow Ann remarried John Smith in Stockton.
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Durham / Re: Rees Jones - Stockton
« on: Wednesday 28 October 09 21:13 GMT (UK) »
Hi Carole - yes I noticed that record and did wonder.?? Brecknock is not too far away from where Rees used to live. Interestingly, I've just received a death cert for his mother Elizabeth who died in May 1889 in Breconshire.
Its a long story but I have a theory he may have gone to America. Rees & Ann had a daughter Mary Hannah in Feb 1880 in Stockton - 1881 census. After that she disappears.
My dad died last year and in his stuff I found an old photo of him visiting an Auntie in America in 1940s - Aunt Mary and his cousin, Leslie J Griner were handwritten on the back. I have traced the family in several USA census returns and "Aunt Mary" is Mary H Griner and was born in the north-east of England Feb 1880!!! Dates of emigration varied between 1886/88. She couldn't have emigrated on her own so I'm wondering if Rees, her father, went with her??? This is a real puzzle - much appreciate another viewpoint.
Its a long story but I have a theory he may have gone to America. Rees & Ann had a daughter Mary Hannah in Feb 1880 in Stockton - 1881 census. After that she disappears.
My dad died last year and in his stuff I found an old photo of him visiting an Auntie in America in 1940s - Aunt Mary and his cousin, Leslie J Griner were handwritten on the back. I have traced the family in several USA census returns and "Aunt Mary" is Mary H Griner and was born in the north-east of England Feb 1880!!! Dates of emigration varied between 1886/88. She couldn't have emigrated on her own so I'm wondering if Rees, her father, went with her??? This is a real puzzle - much appreciate another viewpoint.
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Durham / Rees Jones - Stockton
« on: Wednesday 28 October 09 19:02 GMT (UK) »
I just cannot find my great grandfather's death. Rees Jones was born in 1844 in Maesmynis, Breconshire but moved to Stockton with his family about 1875 where my grandfather was born in Sheraton Street 1878, also called Rees Jones. I have found the family living at 17 Sheraton Street in the 1881 Census. In 1890 my great grandmother remarried and is down as a widow on her marriage certificate to John Smith. (I know! First Jones, now Smith!)
From what I have learnt Ann and Rees had their last child, David Jones, in 1883 in Stockton so Rees must have died some time between 1883 and 1890.
Would appreciate any advice! (ps this is my first post - please bear with me!)
From what I have learnt Ann and Rees had their last child, David Jones, in 1883 in Stockton so Rees must have died some time between 1883 and 1890.
Would appreciate any advice! (ps this is my first post - please bear with me!)