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I am posting this topic here as maybe Wales is not the most logical place for researchers of their Families to look.A Town was created Names Nixon Balfour Allcock of Rhymney/Caddick/Calderwood/Cartwright of Dowlais/Clark/Penkov/Cooke/ Hearne/ Davies/Edwards and Steele/Harbottle/Jenkins/John/Vaughan/Kay/Lethbridge/Lewin-Wiskin Families Perry/Plummer/Rees/Richards/Skyrme/Waters/Watkins/Wiskin/ New Russia Company was:
John Hughes born 181815 married 1844 to Elizabeth Lewis of Merthr Tydfil died 1889 Saint Petersburgh. He was an Engineer who set up Iron Works Factories in an area that was rich in coal and iron ore deposits in 1869 in the Steppes of what is now Ukraine but in 1869 -1919 the Russian Empire.Employed 8000 workers in 1896 and 12,000 in 1907. In 1896 there were still 22 Families living there David Davies(Lizzie) arrival 1892 with 2 children
William Jones arrived 1881 David Waters(Gweendoline) 4 children arr 1878 Thomas Thomas arr 1879. John John (Sarah) 2 children arr 1875. Lwellyn Evans (Mary Anne) 1 xhild Gladis aged 1 yr Arr 1875 .William Gibbon(Katherine) 5 sons/3 daughters arr 1875
Widow Jmes (Mary) 4 sons arr 1872. Wm Jones arr 1875 Thomas Mort(Rachel) 3 children arr 1875. David Jenkins(Mary) 3 children arr 1889. Wm Jones(Mary) arr 1880. Francis Davis(Sarah) 4 children. arr 1890. Wm Thomas (Ellen) William (25) Elizabeth (33) Vera (9) arr 1869. Edward Edwards (Ellen) 2 sons Edward (24) William (13) arr 1874 William Williams arr 1872. Thomas James (Mary) 5 children arr 1873. Edwin James Williams arr 1878 John Richards arr 1873 Richard Richard arr 1874 Herebert Rees (Theresa) 4 sons 2 daughters arr 1887 Edmund James arr 1894 All children named and ages.
Other Families in Hughesovka/ http://www.glamro.gov.uk/Hughesovka/hka-listnames.html
I am thinking maybe thats where my Adrian Reine or variation was a Machinery salesman
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John Hughes was one of the "unsung heroes" on the last series of BBC Radio 4's Making History. It is available to "listen again" at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016ldsw#synopsis
and from there a link to a piece about a book on the subject (and there are more links there):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/southeastwales/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8485000/8485707.stm
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Hi,
this post interested me as my late uncle Cyril(spike)Speers has a book about the families of Hughesovka.Uncle Spike told me the town was named after his Grandfather.
Marysma
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Hi,
this is my first post here, google helped me find this thread which has listed some of my family (my great great grandfather) Thomas James senior. but i don't seem to be able to find any records of him returning to Wales.
i don't seem to be able to find any information about any of them, although i know they did return (my Grandfather still lives in Cardiff today)
anyone have any pointers or info i can use?
thanks, JuvUK
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See
http://www.glamro.gov.uk/hughesovka/hka-index.html
For photos.
http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=16490&inst_id=118&nv1=search&nv2=
For parish records
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/onlinelists/GB%200214%20D381.pdf
For full details of the Glamorgan archive.
PM
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thanks Pastmagic, i'll see what i can find
and @marysma, did your uncle Cyril have a brother named Alec? and was he married to Margaret?
i think Cyril Speers is my Grandfathers brother!! :o
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Yes Justin-you have the right family!
Replied by PM.
Marysma
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Hello to all of you!
I live in Donetsk (that's how Hughesovka is called now) and I am highly interested in lives of those families that had stayed here. I am doing a research about the history of this town...
So, anyway, if there is a way I can help you with finding your roots - just let me know, I will be literally grateful for you to ask me for a help!!!
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Well worth a look is the Gathering the Jewels site, http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/ just put Hughesovka into the search box (but set aside some time - there's a lot to see).
The Old Merthyr Tydfil site has some material as well; for those researching I am sure that contributions to the site would be welcomed. http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/hughesovka.htm
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Hughesovka's last survivor:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18363992
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Hello
I'm looking for information on the following person:
- Florence unkown, born 1879 in Hugheskaffa, Russia
I guess "Hugheskaffa" means "Hughesovka".
Does anybody know who here parents were?
Best Regards
Frederick
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Benjamin W Thomas married Florence Lois Jones in Cardiff in 4th Q 1902. Buying the marriage cert will give both the names of their fathers and their occupations. On 1901 census, Benjamin and Florence were both single, and Florence was a kitchenmaid working in Glamorgan Lunatic Asylum in Bridgend. She had been born in Russia, so I'm fairly certain this is the correct Florence.
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Hello,
the father of Florence Lois Jones was David Jones. I found his name on the marriage cert of his daughter. When Florence was born in Hughesovka where can I get her birth cert or informations about David?
Best
Frederick
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Hello Valerie125
My father was born in Hughesovka in 1917 I think. His father was a Scottish accountant working in, I believe, a brewery in Hughesovka. My grandfather married a lady from St Petersburg and they ultimately ended up in Britain after fleeing the Revolution. Before permanently settling in Yorkshire my grandfather and his wife spent time in France, Belgium and Germany working mostly with International Harvester Co.
I would like to be able to trace this part of my family's history because so much was lost during the Revolution and two World Wars.
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My father was born in Hughesovka. Does anyone recognise the names: Kean, Tascheit, Drozin?
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I'm looking for the name of a brewery in Hughesovka attached, presumably to the steelworks.
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"... The Russian steel workers had to have their beer, essential for all workers in heavy industry, this was supplied by the South Russia Brewery Co Ltd. ..."
http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/hughesovka.htm
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How about searching for your ancestors in the Welsh Newspapers, I got heaps of hit on the word "Hughesovka"
Try "Hughesovka" and a surname as a search term.
Link:
http://newspapers.library.wales/
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Took your advice whiteout7 and was searching in the Welsh Newspapers and what caught my eye was a death listed and it was page 2 1873 July 19 South Wales Daily News and after the death of William Allen is this Welsh residence "RIIM" or what does that refer to ?
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On the scan William Allen's residence is shown as Vaindre Hall near Cardiff. I think RIIM is what the optical character recognition software, or whatever it's called nowadays, made of the name of the next death on the list, REES. Here's a link to the scan:
http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3498699/3498701/4/
Drosybont
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I have only just learnt, because of the chance discovery of some old letters of my grandfather's in an attic in Australia, that my ancestor was one of those that accompanied John Hughes to The Ukraine. Apart from the fact that he worked in an Iron works in Merthyr Tydfil I know little else.
I quote from my Grandfather's letter:
"Our Grandfather had to seek employment away from home, so he had a job at the steel works at Merthyr Tydvil(sic) in Glamorganshire, after being there quite a while he was picked as one of 25 to go out to Russia to teach the Russians in the process of steel making, and would you believe it, it was only Uncle John and my Mother were born then. They started from home in a horse and cart (no cars then) to meet the train at Carmarthen, and our Great Grandparents went with them to the station to see them off."
I wonder if anyone has information about John Lewis (buried 18/3/1888 aged 55 years at Rhymney) and his wife Margaret, and their daughter (my Grandfather's mother). I would be ever so grateful if you would be kind enough to share any information with me.
Many thanks in in advance.
Huw.