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Offline Manchester Rambler

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Creative Searching...
« on: Wednesday 18 May 05 09:38 BST (UK) »
For the last few days, I've been trying to locate Mary Thomas, b. Glan Conway, Denbighshire, and her son Arthur, b. Salford, Lancashire (according to the 1901 census) in 1891, to find out who her husband was.  I finally located her, after some very imaginative searching....

Thomas, John abt 1859 llanddainiolm, Cameroon Head  Salford  Lancashire   
Thomas, Mary abt 1859 gilan canway, Derbyshire Wife  Salford  Lancashire 
Thomas, Arthur abt 1886 gilan canway, Derbyshire Son  Salford  Lancashire 

Why did I say I'd help my cousins find their Welsh roots???   ??? ::) :P

MR

PS  If anyone knows anything about a Hughes family from Llansaintffraid Glan Conway.....   8)
ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: Creative Searching...
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 18 May 05 16:16 BST (UK) »
Ah, another example of the dialectal joys of the spoken word Manchester Rambler.  Well done you!
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it!  No matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha

SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan
BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester
FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London
BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester
DERICK ~ France
FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth
TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire
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Re: Creative Searching...
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 18 May 05 16:58 BST (UK) »
Oh come on, you should know to look up Cameroon first!!

Maybe thats why I having probs with my Welsh lot  :-\
Hackett - Black Country
Shakespeare - Birmingham/Middlesex/Leicestershire
Williams & Millington - Denbighshire
Davies - Rhondda/Black Country
Whittle/Bowen - Black Country
Bradshaw - Birmingham
Millard - Cambs
Smith/SQUELCH! - Birmingham
Peart - Yorkshire
and on and on and on.......

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Re: Creative Searching...
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 18 May 05 23:35 BST (UK) »
I was looking for a William Hares from Shipham, Somerset.  Out of sheer frustration I ended up looking for all Williams born Shipham of abt the right age - lucky he was old...

I found him living in Cardiff enumerated as William Ayres!!

At least as a Somerset girl living in South Wales I can understand that one  ;D

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Re: Creative Searching...
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 19 May 05 09:00 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Manchester Rambler on Wednesday 18 May 05 09:38 BST (UK)
PS  If anyone knows anything about a Hughes family from Llansaintffraid Glan Conway.....   8)

Not come across a Hughes yet, but I can maybe help with Williams and Jones.

Seriously though, I have the contact details of the sexton for St. Mary's in Llansanffraid. He's most helpful and a wealth of local info. If you want his contact details, send me a PM and I'll pass them on.

D ap D
Stuck with:
William Williams of Llanllyfni
John Jones in Llanelli
Evan Evans in Caio
David Davies of Llansanffraid
Evans: Caio/Carms
Jones: CDG, DEN

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Re: Creative Searching...
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 19 May 05 09:37 BST (UK) »
Cameroon? Carmarthen!
Reminds me of all the people on the 1881 born Som. whose birthpace is transrcibed as Somalia. 8)
Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena.
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Re: Creative Searching...
« Reply #6 on: Friday 20 May 05 08:48 BST (UK) »
And Anglesey transcribed as Angola
Stuck with:
William Williams of Llanllyfni
John Jones in Llanelli
Evan Evans in Caio
David Davies of Llansanffraid
Evans: Caio/Carms
Jones: CDG, DEN

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"Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, or any other tongue, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of the great reckoning before the Most High Judge, answer for this corner of the earth": The Old Man of Pencader to Henry II
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