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Title: Alfred Jones
Post by: Pamchetland on Wednesday 29 April 20 09:24 BST (UK)
I am trying to find an Alfred Jones who gives his dob as 1883 and pob Tregynon Montgomeryshire on the 1911 census, where by that time he was married to Emily Lyddon and living in Bridgend Glamorgan
I have searched all the censuses from 1891 onwards but without success I am hoping that somebody might be able to help Thank you
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: rosie99 on Wednesday 29 April 20 10:13 BST (UK)
What was his occupation in 1911

What details does his marriage give regarding his occupation and his fathers name/occupation. Who were the witnesses
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 29 April 20 10:17 BST (UK)
Alfred married Emma Lyddon  Q2, 1907, Bridgend. That should give a father's name.
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Pamchetland on Wednesday 29 April 20 10:51 BST (UK)
Thank you for your replies I know I would get this information from his marriage cert but I am doing this for someone else and I am trying to save her the cost of buying a marriage cert at a cost of £24.99 from Ancestry
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Pamchetland on Wednesday 29 April 20 10:52 BST (UK)
Alfred Jones was a coalminer on the 1911 census
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 29 April 20 11:03 BST (UK)
Nothing definite that I could find in the Montgomeryshire Baptisms. The only poss was son of an estate agent's clerk and he married after WW1.  Maybe non-conformist.  I'll see if there's anything there*

* none so far  :-\
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 29 April 20 11:11 BST (UK)
Thank you for your replies I know I would get this information from his marriage cert but I am doing this for someone else and I am trying to save her the cost of buying a marriage cert at a cost of £24.99 from Ancestry

Just to say that it would be £12 via GRO. Don't sue Ancestry to buy certs:

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/login.asp

Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Pamchetland on Wednesday 29 April 20 11:17 BST (UK)
Thanks for your help It is good to know that there is a cheaper way to get certs other than Ancestry I am Scottish and have been spoiled by being able to get Scottish records so much more cheaply
I am doing this for my nextdoor neighbour and she is quite young so am not sure if she will be prepared even to spend £12.00 but I wiil ask her
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: rosie99 on Wednesday 29 April 20 11:29 BST (UK)
The GRO also offers PDF's (£7) for some birth & death registrations, they are however suggesting that we only order certificates that are urgent at the moment.  As Ancestry would be ordering them from the GRO on your behalf I doubt they would get them any quicker, they are certainly overpriced  :o .
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: jonwarrn on Wednesday 29 April 20 12:03 BST (UK)
Here they are in 1911 free index
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWXD-XR2

Children born Fountain.
If I have it right, Alfred and Emma Jones seem to be in much the same spot in 1939
39 Register free index has
Alfred Jones born 1882, with Emma Jones (born 1883), and one closed record
living Park Shop Cottages, Penybont R.D., Glamorganshire, Wales. 

May or may not help in the search.
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Pamchetland on Wednesday 29 April 20 12:17 BST (UK)
Hi Thank you I have both of these and with the information they provide it would seem it would be easy to trace Alfred back to his roots but this is proving very difficult
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: jonwarrn on Wednesday 29 April 20 12:19 BST (UK)
Hi
Tregynon was in Newtown registration district
The only birth that fits seems to be
JONES, ALFRED       
Mother's Maiden Surname: DAVIES 
GRO Reference: 1882  J Quarter in NEWTOWN  Volume 11B  Page 198

But is it the right one? :-\
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 29 April 20 13:19 BST (UK)
A tree has a ref to him being  on the 1891 as a grandson. birthplace  Criggion

1891 2106/18/4
Bausley, Montgomeryshire
John Jones, 65, Ag Lab, b. Montgomeryshire
Mary, wife, 64, b. Salop, Lopington
Alfred, grdson, 7, ,b Mont, Criggion
Arthur, grdson, 3 or 8, b. -do-

Criggion is in Alberbury parish. I'm just wondering if Tregynon has been written/interpreted wrongly on the 1911and it is meant to be Criggion.

If this is correct, there is a baptism for him in Alberbury:

July 31 1883
Alfred, son of Martha Jones, Criggion. Domestic Servant


Gadget
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: jonwarrn on Wednesday 29 April 20 13:24 BST (UK)
Possibility in 1901
Llangeinor, Glamorgan
piece 5043 folio 86 page 93

Alfred Jones, 19, born Tregonen, Montgomeryshire.
Transcribed as Tragonew on ancestry.  Older brother John.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X915-SHY

On previous page are parents Rees Jones, 48, and Sarah, 56

Here is that Alfred and family in 1891
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HMLJ-JPZ

ADDED - In David Street, Llangeinor, in both 91 and 01.
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 29 April 20 13:30 BST (UK)
Jon  - have you seen the 1891?  FS  says he was born Llangeinor on that one  :-\

(Clicked on wrong ref first!!)
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: jonwarrn on Wednesday 29 April 20 13:38 BST (UK)
Hi
I have seen it.
What struck me was the brother John, because I came across someone like him on an earlier search.
Free index to 1911
John Rees Jones, 33, born Tregynon
Married and living in the Bridgend area (like Alfred)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWX8-K41
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 29 April 20 13:39 BST (UK)
This is P of birth for the family from the 1891. The sons are down as  born Llangeinor

Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 29 April 20 13:40 BST (UK)
I looked at the 1911 early on - that's why I knew it was Emma not Emily (Reply #2)
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: jonwarrn on Wednesday 29 April 20 13:53 BST (UK)
It's a difficult one (especially without the marriage certificate!)
I can't see an Alfred Jones birth in Bridgend in the early 1880s.
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 29 April 20 13:54 BST (UK)
1881

RG11/5488/84/8


with John (add  b. Betws)
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: jonwarrn on Wednesday 29 April 20 13:57 BST (UK)
Oh, well found!
Tregynon is not a big place. So having Rees, Sarah, John there in 1881 does look promising.
John
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Pamchetland on Wednesday 29 April 20 14:48 BST (UK)
I am extemely happy with what you have both found for me I feel quite confident in having the correct family now and having Alfred's brother settled in the same area seems to me to confirm it
I must get back to using Family Search again it seems most productive
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 29 April 20 14:57 BST (UK)
This marriage might fit

Q1 1878  Newtown  - Rees Jones and Sarah Davies

Add - North Wales BMD has it as a Civil Marriage and in 1877 (so possibly very late December and record info sent to GRO for 1st Q in 1878) 
Title: Re: Alfred Jones
Post by: Pamchetland on Wednesday 29 April 20 15:35 BST (UK)
Thank you yet again