Anne Lewis 1824

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I am looking for the parents of an Anne Lewis who I am told was baptised at St Dogfans Church Llanrhaiadr-ym-Mochant on the 8th February 1824. Could anyone with access to the baptism registers of the church let me know the names of the parents and any other information please.

Eric

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Hi Eric

Baptisms Llanrhaiadr YM 

8th Feb 1824 - Ann (no e)  d/o Richard Lewis (labourer) and Cathrine, Living at Tyn y Waen




Gadget

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This might be their marriage -

Llanrhaiadr YM by Banns 21 Nov 1821

Richard Lewis,  and Catherine Davies. Both of the parish



Gadget 

[cire]

Hi
Thanks for the replies. They certainly look like the marriage and baptism of the same family, BUT my contact in Australia says that Ann's death cert. says her mother was a Cathrine Gaynor, wife opf Richard Lewis.

In the marriage you quoted, in the marriages on Findmypast, it says Richard and Cathrine were widower and widow. I wonder if Cathrine Davies was born Cathrine Gaynor and married a Davies who had died??

Thanks again
Eric

[Gadget]

Hi again

I've checked through all my Llanrhaiadr records (various sources)  and there is no sign of a Catherine Gaynor. There is only one Gaynor mentioned - a marriage in Welshpool in 1823.   It might be that she came from a different parish but which one 

It would be interesting to find out the informant on the death cert.


Gadget

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There are at least two  unsourced trees (Ramus and Bandon)  on the internet which mentions a Catherine Gaynor marrying a Richard Lewis 'about 1820' .  However, they have the daughter, Ann Lewis (m. Robert Band) as being born in Scotland in 1823  and dying in Footscray, Victoria, Australia in 1887.



Gadget

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There's no sign of an Ann Lewis baptism in Scotland around the correct time so I'm assuming that the people who put up the trees thought that as her husband was Scottish then so was she.

It's interesting that neither of the tree submitters have traced the parents or a previous marriage of this Catherine Gaynor.


Gadget

Added - there are only 12 Gaynors (and close alternatives)  in the  Wales 1841

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I've been looking through the 1841 and 1851 censuses again (and again!!!)
There is the family of Richard and Mary Lewis, living in Cefn Coch, Llanrhaiadr ym Mochant in both censuses. There is a daughter Catherine in the 1841 census. Could it be that Richard was married to Catherine Gaynor, and they had a daughter Ann in 1823/24 and possibly other children. Then Catherine died and Richard married Mary. Unfortunately I didn't find either the death or the remarriage!!!!!!!

Interesting that, at least in 1851, Llanrhaiadr is part in Montgomeryshire and part in Denbeighshire.

Eric

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Hi
Just thought that you might like to know that everything comes to them what keep searching.
Ann Lewis's mother Catherine was Catherine Hughes before her marriage and her mother's name was Keinor which I understand is a Welsh spelling of Gaynor!!!
Happy New Year to you all
Eric