Dear Stephanie,
Sorry for the delay with the reply - wanted to check some details for a few people, which can be a slow process for me sometimes.
Rather than type out all the relevant information, perhaps I could get Ancestry.com to send you a free invitation to view the tree I have there. It takes a little while to learn how to navigate around the branches, but if you read and open the various boxes on each page it soon becomes familiar. You cannot search Ancestry records yourself unfortunately. The free invitation allows you to view and copy all the information on each page/person on the tree that may be of interest.
The information about people thought to be living is not available to the public. If you wanted to do this, you need to send me a PM (Personal Message offline - click onto the scroll beside the little face near the top left of this Post) with your email address for me to send to Ancestry and they will forward the 'invitation and ability to open' the tree immediately.
A few points of interest :
Your grandfather Reginald W M in 1891 Census was an Agriculture Student at The Colonial College, Hollesley Bay, Suffolk ( rec read online - 'Benefits bestowed: education and British imperialism' by J A Mangan from p199) In 1901 Census he and Margaret were at Corsbie Farm, Legerwood/Earlston, near Kelso. He seems to have gone to New York in 1903.
Walter Amos M (Rex's father!), Railway Company Director, lived in retirement at the Hotel Continental, Ajaccio, Corsica with his third wife Louisa Harriet Seppings ( her g.grandfather Sir Robert Seppings was a Naval Architect ... )
g.uncle Harry was Walter Henry M (1866-1957) only child of Walter Amos M and second wife Pauline Anne Charnock ( Barrister's daughter) - he married Letty Maud Batchelor, his third cousin. Letty was born in Deniliquin, Australia on a brief trip by her parents, Henry Cooper Batchelor and Mary Michael.
The 'pillar of non-conformity' William Henry M was Walter Amos' 2nd cousin.
I mentioned on the last Post that the younger Jacob M was the son of Jacob M , but just found an adult christening for him in 1833 that indicates he was born in 1795, the son of Levi M and Rosetta Hart. They are my forebears, so we are closer cousins than I thought.
Levi and Jacob (brothers) were business partners, Silversmith/Jewellers and Tea Traders and also owned significant original shares and were on the steering committee of the Swansea Canal Company formed to bring the coal down to the port.
I had the customary six month trip to UK and Europe in 1975 and visited Swansea without realising the family significance. Unfortunately not likely to have a return visit.
Thanks for the personal anecdotes - they bring the past back more clearly than anything.
Regards .. Jim