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Need help with a Welsh ancestor Godfrey Charles Barnes 6.11.1857 Newport
« on: Monday 18 January 16 13:57 GMT (UK) »
My great grandfather was born in Newport, Wales, and moved to South Africa as a young man in the late 1870's or early 1880's. I would like to know more about his family, if possible.

Since I don't live in the UK it is a bit difficult to me to do any research, so if someone would like to help me, please send me a PM, and I can give you more details.

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Re: Need help with a Welsh ancestor
« Reply #1 on: Monday 18 January 16 14:05 GMT (UK) »
Hi and welcome to Rootschat, as you have to make 3 posts before the PM facility is activated to you, why not supply all the information you have on him and we will attempt to trace earlier records for him?
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Re: Need help with a Welsh ancestor
« Reply #2 on: Monday 18 January 16 14:15 GMT (UK) »
Welcome o rootschat Matti.  :)

If you can give us some details, such as name, date and place of birth, parent's names, etc (as much as you know even if not a lot) then I'm sure you'll get many people willing to try to help you. It is best to have your request up here on the boards ... many minds, availability of various resources and different ways of searching can often find something that a lone searcher cannot.

PM is usually reserved for information that you don't want to share on a public forum.

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Re: Need help with a Welsh ancestor
« Reply #3 on: Monday 18 January 16 14:24 GMT (UK) »
Ok, fine.

Godfrey Charles Barnes 6.11.1857. (There is a small chance that the birth year could be 1858.) Died on 16.6.1947 in Germiston, South Africa. I am not sure about the place of birth, but to my knowledge he lived in Newport prior to his immigration to SA.

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Re: Need help with a Welsh ancestor
« Reply #4 on: Monday 18 January 16 14:35 GMT (UK) »
Hi again in a rush but looks to be him as Godfrey aged 13 in Penzance, Cornwall in 1871?
Census ref RG10/2339/110/13
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Re: Need help with a Welsh ancestor Godfrey Charles Barnes 6.11.1857 Newport
« Reply #5 on: Monday 18 January 16 14:49 GMT (UK) »
This is probably his birth registration from freebmd  http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
December qtr 1857 
Godfrey Charles Barnes       
Newport M reg district    11a   180
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Re: Need help with a Welsh ancestor
« Reply #6 on: Monday 18 January 16 14:50 GMT (UK) »
Hi again using that 1871 as a guide, think he could possibly be transcribed on my site in 1861 as George BARNO aged 3

Charles Barno 26 occ Mason
Mary 31
George 3
Harry 1 b Pontypool
Census ref RG09/4008/41/26
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Re: Need help with a Welsh ancestor
« Reply #7 on: Monday 18 January 16 14:54 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: keyboard86 on Monday 18 January 16 14:35 GMT (UK)
Hi again in a rush but looks to be him as Godfrey aged 13 in Penzance, Cornwall in 1871?
Census ref RG10/2339/110/13
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https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VFJ6-ZS1
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Re: Need help with a Welsh ancestor Godfrey Charles Barnes 6.11.1857 Newport
« Reply #8 on: Monday 18 January 16 14:56 GMT (UK) »
Probably Godfrey baptised in Cornwall after his family moved there:

Madron, Penzance, Cornwall
baptism 6 February 1863
Godfrey Charles
s/o Charles and Mary BARNES

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