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Millie from Pentyrch 1916 onwards
« on: Wednesday 15 March 23 20:54 GMT (UK) »
Here's an impossible search - but you seem to do the impossible. We are looking for a girl named Millie who may have lived in Pentyrch and is likely to have links with Mountain Ash. She will have been around twenty in the First World War, where the boy she loved lost his life.

Why do we want to know? It’s a complicated story. What we have is an obituary poem to  George, the boy she loved. He was with the Seaforth Highlanders, the Buffs, a hero of the battle of  Loos, which took place on the Western Front between 25 September and 13 October 1915.  He died of his wounds in March 1916. There’s a story behind this quest. But first, we need to find a Millie who may have lived in Pentyrch.  is any one willing to give it a go to find  a Millie in Pentyrch? Could be Evans, but not sure. Thanks. And if no one can try such an impossible search, thanks for reading anyway. :)

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Re: Millie from Pentyrch 1916 onwards
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 15 March 23 21:25 GMT (UK) »
There is this one but born 1877.

Name:   Millie Evans
Age:   14
Estimated Birth Year:   abt 1877
Where born:   Pentyrch (Pen Tyrch), Glamorgan, Wales
Civil parish:   Pentyrch (Pen tyrch)
Town:   Garth
Glamorgan

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Squire/Thomas/Davies/Gibbons/Mordecai/Bowen/Lewis/Rees/Williams/Jones/Llewellyn/Morgan - Glamorgan
Lewis - Breckonshire
Davies/Roderick - Myddfai Carms
Lloyd/Jones - Denbigh/Salop
Thackwell/Thomas - Hereford/Monmouthshire
Shoemac/Squire/Keirle/Small - Somerset
Berry/Baggot/Lee/Clayton - Lancs
Yelland/Bray/Trethewey - Cornwall
Baggot/Hurley/Keaveny/Shiel/Flynn - Ireland

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Re: Millie from Pentyrch 1916 onwards
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 15 March 23 21:32 GMT (UK) »
Cas, that was quick! Thanks. As you say, too early to be the soldiers girl friend. I wonder if she had a daughter. Names continued through families. Nit that many .Millie’s it seems. Do you think she was an Emily?

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Re: Millie from Pentyrch 1916 onwards
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 15 March 23 21:50 GMT (UK) »
Do you have George's surname? I wondered if there might be something useful in newspapers relating to his death 

Millie could be short for a number of names apart from Emily - Millicent, Amelia etc.


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Re: Millie from Pentyrch 1916 onwards
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 15 March 23 22:24 GMT (UK) »
George Carhart I think it must be. He was from mountain ash, Cefn Pennar. There's a Millie plank born 1900 at 3 cilhaul tce mountain ash in and 1901 and 1911

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Re: Millie from Pentyrch 1916 onwards
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 15 March 23 22:33 GMT (UK) »
She married George W H Vines 1919 in Pontypridd Dist 11a 1550 September Q

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Re: Millie from Pentyrch 1916 onwards
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 15 March 23 22:39 GMT (UK) »
Well done Sam, was looking at same  :)

Name:   Millie Plank
Age in 1901:   1
Estimated Birth Year:   abt 1900
Relation:   Daughter
Father:   Francis John Plank
Mother:   Sarah Ann Plank
Where born:   Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, Wales

Still with family 1911, Mountain Ash, age 11

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Squire/Thomas/Davies/Gibbons/Mordecai/Bowen/Lewis/Rees/Williams/Jones/Llewellyn/Morgan - Glamorgan
Lewis - Breckonshire
Davies/Roderick - Myddfai Carms
Lloyd/Jones - Denbigh/Salop
Thackwell/Thomas - Hereford/Monmouthshire
Shoemac/Squire/Keirle/Small - Somerset
Berry/Baggot/Lee/Clayton - Lancs
Yelland/Bray/Trethewey - Cornwall
Baggot/Hurley/Keaveny/Shiel/Flynn - Ireland

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Re: Millie from Pentyrch 1916 onwards
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 15 March 23 22:45 GMT (UK) »
Milly and George look to have 3 daughters in Mtn Ash, 1 of which married in 1948 and is probably still alive.