John Robert Evans

[Newbigs]

My G Grandfather was John Robert Evans born in Brec(c)on, Brecknockshire in 1864. He was married to a Jane, surname unknown. At some point they moved to Rochester in Kent. I've found trying to find a specific Evans in Wales is like finding a needle in a haystack. Any help would be much appreciated.

[PaulineJ]

Can you give the refeernce/ full listing for a census on which he appears with Jane & kid(s) and we'll work from there.

were they the family @ 24, Old Road, Chatham, Medway, Kent, England in 1901?

Pauline

[PaulineJ]

If so, from 1911

Maindy is a district of the city of Cardiff, Wales.

   EVANS, BEATRICE       MOON 
GRO Reference: 1906  S Quarter in CARDIFF  Volume 11A  Page 419
   EVANS, BEATRICE  ESTELLA     DAVIES 
GRO Reference: 1906  M Quarter in CARDIFF  Volume 11A  Page 348
   EVANS, BEATRICE  MARY     ENGLAND 
GRO Reference: 1906  S Quarter in CARDIFF  Volume 11A  Page 446
   EVANS, BEATRICE  MAUD     COLMER 
GRO Reference: 1906  M Quarter in CARDIFF  Volume 11A  Page 393
   EVANS, BEATRICE  SARAH TILLEY    ASHMAN 
GRO Reference: 1904  S Quarter in CARDIFF  Volume 11A  Page 417
   EVANS, BEATRICE  VIOLET SELINA    CAWTE 
GRO Reference: 1906  M Quarter in CARDIFF  Volume 11A  Page 358
   EVANS, BENITA  BESSIE     WEBBER 
GRO Reference: 1904  M Quarter in CARDIFF  Volume 11A  Page 381
   EVANS, BLODWEN       GOMER 
GRO Reference: 1905  J Quarter in CARDIFF  Volume 11A  Page 417
   EVANS, BLODWEN  IRIS     JAMES 
GRO Reference: 1906  D Quarter in CARDIFF  Volume 11A  Page 345

do you happen to know what Bede' Sunday (Formal name was)?

and he appears to be John Robert WHITE evans in 1921.. (b 1866)

EVANS, JOHN  ROBERT WHITE    WHITE
GRO Reference: 1869  S Quarter in BRECKNOCK  Volume 11B  Page 107  (Getting younger)!

[ciderdrinker]

Hello
The younger daughter on the 1911 Bede born 1896 gives her mother's maiden name as Hodges as you say in Cardiff.
The elder daughter Elsie Violet born Mar 1891 registered June qtr 1891 at Medway has a mother's maiden name Hodges and is registered as Jones.

This seems to mother and child 1891
Dykes Crt Rochester
John Henry Hodges 25 gen lab Liverpool
Jane 27 Dartford
Elisie Violet ?mths Rochester.

I can track the husband but struggling to track Jane and her marriage to John Robert Evans.
The father seems to be born Horton Kirkby Kent  son of William and Rebecca ,but that could be a red herring.

Ciderdrinker

[PaulineJ]

Hello
The younger daughter on the 1911 Bede born 1896 gives her mother's maiden name as Hodges as you say in Cardiff.

Is that nature's way of telling me I can't subtract?

Ok , Bede marries 1919 to Mr Somerset.
marriage cert on Page 27.
https://cityark.medway.gov.uk/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx?command=getcontent&server=files&value=P085B-01-15(2).pdf

[Newbigs]

Thank you both for pointing me in the right direction.
Pauline, the John Robert White is confusing. My father mentioned the White to me but he didn't know anything about it either. Unfortunately ,at 86, he is the last ,and youngest, of any of his brothers and sisters so we have nobody to ask. With reference to Bede, it's the only name she was ever known as even by my father. They are the ones from Old Road, Chatham.
Ciderdrinker, thanks for your help. Elsie Violet was my grandmother.

[ciderdrinker]

Hi
So Bede says she is 22 when she married Feb 1919 and that would make her born Feb 1896- Feb 1897 and the birth reg is Sep qtr 1896..
Doesn't that fit?
Not trying to be funny  or anything ,it's just that she married early in the year .The 1939 gives her dob 12 July 1896.

Ciderdrinker

[PaulineJ]

I was looking at 1906-ish Births for Bede.
That's what you get when searching over several tabs...

[Kloumann]

A John Evans possibly married a Jane Hodge in Swansea, 1895
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2D13-P3Q