Wybunbury Graves

[Gadget]

All I know is that a Joseph Mates (various spellings - Meades, Medes,etc. ), of Wybunbury married in my home village in Denbighshire in 1766. I gather that there were lots of them around the area and would love to find out about them.

He is possibly my 6 x grt grandfather.

Gadget

[Jayson]

Hi Gadget

I'm off to Wybunbury today & will have a look in the churchyard. 

I did have a look for the name - & its various variations - in the Wybunbury grave register (1807-1875) but I couldn't find one useful entry.  Perhaps they had moved away from the village by this date?

Jayson

[Gadget]

Hi Jayson - good hunting.
 
Thanks for looking but i think they had moved. Now if it was 100 years earlier 

I think Joseph must have been born 1730 - 1745 - he was of full age on the marriage bond. I've not been able to find a death record. His wife died 1795.

Gadget

[Jayson]

Gadget

Do you have Joseph's baptism? If not I can get this for you.

Jayson

[Gadget]

No I don't Jayson. He moved to Chirk sometime before 1766. The marriage bond states his home parish as Wybunbury and someone on GOONS located a family of Meates/variations in the early 1700s in Wybunbury. I just have the marriage, births of children and his wife's death. I think he was a coal miner or pit sinker or something like that.

I would love it if you could find it and I'd do double summersaults all around the site 

Thanks

Gadget

[Jayson]

Hi Gadget

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you!

Jayson

[Jayson]

Hi Gadget

I'm afraid it's bad news! Unfortunately, I was unable to find any Mates or anything similar to that name in the parish register (baptisms) for the period you gave - 1730-1745.  It was quite a lengthy search & quite depressing when nothing turned up.

Possibly the family had had close connections with a neighboring parish, and that the family's residence in Wybunbury was of a short duration.

I couldn't see any Mates in the churchyard in Wybunbury but will have another look.

Jayson

[Gadget]

Thank you ever so much for looking Jayson. I'm ever so sorry for you that it was fruitless. The GOONS people found some earlier on, but then a gap 
Back to searching 

Thanks again.

Gadget