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Title: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: polidor on Tuesday 07 March 06 14:41 GMT (UK)
 This was one of my mother's homes apparently. Does it ring a bell anywhere?
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: polidor on Tuesday 07 March 06 14:46 GMT (UK)
Whoops!!
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: wrjones on Tuesday 07 March 06 16:14 GMT (UK)
Lodge is more likely to be a small village near Brymbo,I had relatives living there myself in 1901.

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: polidor on Tuesday 07 March 06 16:19 GMT (UK)
 Thanks William, that's cleared THAT up then. I always thought it looked a bit on the small side to be called a lodge. ::) I'presume they actually lived in the house next door to the Co-op. Wonder if it's still there? Poli
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: MikeDavies38 on Tuesday 07 March 06 19:40 GMT (UK)
The attached photo is not very clear but it gives you some idea of how close the village was to the steelworks.
Mike
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: piffy on Sunday 12 March 06 15:05 GMT (UK)
I had a problem with Rhos Lodge. I know where it was I think. near the old seven sisters mine. but I'm not sure. suppose it has vanished now. must have been the same thing.
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: polidor on Sunday 12 March 06 15:34 GMT (UK)
 Lodge is now an ongoing search interest for me as i found some names on the back of a wedding photo taken c1916 in a 'Myfanwy cottage' at Lodge. I'll dig deeper and see what i come up with. Poli. :)
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: Llosgi Calch on Wednesday 15 March 06 23:56 GMT (UK)
Half of 'the Lodge' village was buried by the expanding banks of the steelworks in the early half of the 20th century.
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: MikeDavies38 on Sunday 19 March 06 19:30 GMT (UK)
Found this in the Wrexham Leader on Friday.  Although it does not mention the Lodge, it is the right place.
Mike
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: polidor on Sunday 19 March 06 21:26 GMT (UK)
Found this in the Wrexham Leader on Friday.  Although it does not mention the Lodge, it is the right place.
Mike


Very interesting this. It mentions Nant Road and my relatives once lived at number 5. Poli
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: Rinnie on Monday 17 April 06 22:22 BST (UK)
Hi

 Just wondering if I could be of any help? I live in Lodge across from where the steelworks and houses used to be....

Rin  :)
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: polidor on Monday 17 April 06 23:16 BST (UK)
Thanks for the offer Rinnie.

I just have a general interest in Lodge as my brother was born at 5 Nant Rd. Don't know if number 5 still exists!!

Also, i have a photo of a wedding party taken in Lodge at a Myfanwy Cottage. The bride was my mother's cousin Lilian.[Barker] c1916.
It says on the back of the photo that the bridegroom was a Dr. Morris and i'd LOVE to know his first name. There was also a Dr. Batty amongst the guests.
So--if you have any really ancient relatives still around from 90 years ago perhaps you could ask them :) My Taid also worked as a steelworker at one time so i assume that would have been in Lodge.

Seriously though, i even wrote to the Wrexham Leader newspaper as i thought perhaps a local Doctor getting married might have made a bit of news but no luck.

My lot are all Hughes and Evans and they seemed to get all over the place in N.Wales.  Polidor.
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: sharon brown on Wednesday 12 July 06 14:27 BST (UK)
To Rinnie, I notice you are researching the Griffiths, Matthias and Rowland families. Have you got any connections with the smallwood family, as several members married into the above families you are researching
Sharon
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: jackie cook on Monday 28 March 11 14:53 BST (UK)
Hello . I am trying to find out more about my family the live in the lodge . brymbo. and have notice that sharon has posted something that might be of intereset . my great aunty hannah griffiths married bill rowlands and had two child oswell and don. i was wondering if any one had any more info for me ?
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: wilcoxon on Monday 28 March 11 15:38 BST (UK)
Lilian Barker   married  in a Civil Ceremony in Wrexham district in Sept qtr 1921
Other names on the page.
CLUNE Thomas
DAVIES Cordelia
MORRIS Joseph W

There`s no other match.

You would be better contacting Wrexham Archives if you wanted to see if there was a report, they will search  the papers for a fee.
http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/heritage/archives/research.htm
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: jackie cook on Monday 28 March 11 16:31 BST (UK)
i'm sorry i'm a bit confussed!!! was lilian baker married in 1921 or hannah and bill?
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: wilcoxon on Monday 28 March 11 17:16 BST (UK)
It says here Lilian Barker and Joseph W Morris.  :)


Lilian Barker   married  in a Civil Ceremony in Wrexham district in Sept qtr 1921
Other names on the page.
CLUNE Thomas
DAVIES Cordelia
MORRIS Joseph W
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: wilcoxon on Monday 28 March 11 17:24 BST (UK)

I`ve only just spotted this thread is 5 years old  ::)

http://www.northwalesbmd.org.uk/index.php  will give you the Church  or if it was a civil marriage.

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/  will narrow the qtr down.

GRIFFITHS Hannah E, married at  Wrexham, St Giles  1921
BOYDELL Charles
MORROW Lilian 
ROWLANDS William
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: MikeDavies38 on Monday 28 March 11 18:58 BST (UK)
There is a marriage in Q September 1921 for a William Rowlands and a Hannah E Griffiths.  Also in the same quarter, 1921, a birth for an Oswell Rowlands.  A possible birth for a William D Rowlands in December Q, 1922.
Title: Re: The Lodge Brymbo
Post by: Emmatreb on Friday 19 April 24 11:13 BST (UK)
I lived in The Lodge (Wrexham) for many years during my youth.  I left in 1972 when I married and moved away.  Firstly, The Lodge address is "Lodge, Wrexham"  NOT BRYMBO. The building showing the Co-op was there for many years. Opposite this building was a shoe shop.  To the person who questioned about the houses at the side of the
Co-op:- No, the shop staff did not live in them, but they were private houses - including on the left was the village Police Station. This village (in its prime) was large - larger than the next village which was Southsea.  It boasted the following:- 2 x Florists / 1 x wholesale vegetable / Ivy's shop (which was extremely small) / Gallimore's shoe & boot repairer / Fish & Chip shop / Post Office / Ironmonger/ Shoe & Boot seller/repairs / small grocery - sweet shop / the Co-op.  It also boasted it's own police station / Doctor's surgery & 3 Chapels!  This is how I remember it ..... quite a large village!!  :)