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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Monmouthshire => Topic started by: *Sandra* on Friday 12 February 21 20:59 GMT (UK)
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for relatives of Gunner Danks - service no - 697203 - Royal Field Artillery - died 28/3/1919 - buried Christchurch (Holy Trinity) Churchyard. Monmouthshire.
The private memorial marking the grave of Gunner Danks no longer provides adequate commemoration. The commission is in the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave.
Sandra
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1901 census Newport (Monmouthshire).
RG13 Piece 4953 Folio 110 Page 4
Henry Benjamin Danks 31 Elizabeth Danks 26
Ralf Danks 7 Juane Daisy Danks 6
Benjamin Fredrick Danks 4 Elizabeth Maud Danks 1
Sarah Ann Danks 60
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9YS-CMT
Sandra
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1911 (free index) Cromwell Cottage Caerleon Monmouthshire.
RG14 Piece 31957 Schedule Number 68
Henry B Danks 41
Lorna O Danks 7 months
Sarah A Danks 70
Elizabeth Danks 36
Ralph Danks 17
Irene D Danks 16 Benjamin F Danks 14
Elizabeth M Danks 11 Dora P Danks 8
Ernest L Danks 6 Nellie M Danks 3
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7PC-7YQ
Sandra
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message sent to anc tree owner - fingers crossed for a reply.
Sandra
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Believe the family also lost a son Clifford in WW2..
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message sent to anc tree owner - fingers crossed for a reply.
Sandra
NO response from tree owner, will bring some siblings forward.
Ralph Danks appears to have married Q4 1917 to Bertha E Ackerman - Cardiff 11a 863
A death record - Ralph Danks born 24 May 1893 - July 1981 (aged 88 years)
Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep - Registration District - South Glamorgan
Inferred County South Glamorgan
Volume 28 Page 1182
spouse - Bertha Evelyn Danks - 18 August 1899 (aged 96 years)
Registration District South Glamorgan
Register Number F29A - District and Subdistrict 8901F - Entry Number 29
Sandra
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Perhaps a dead end on this line. :-\
Looks like Ralph and Bertha had a son with a birth registered in 1919
Danks Phillip R Ackerman Cardiff 11a 898
Only marriage I could see was - Phillip R Danks
Registration Quarter Apr-May-Jun Registration District South Glamorgan
Spouse Nelly F P Goedleven
Volume Number 28 Page Number 0830
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Sister Irene D Danks -
Sadly a June 1921 registered death -
DANKS Irene D 26 Newport M 11a 191
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Elizabeth Maud Danks- 9 June 1899 Llangattock Juxta Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales
Father Henry Benjamin Danks - Mother Elizabeth Danks - Page number 90
Not sure this is her marriage ? Different middle initial; - Elizabeth A Danks instead of Elizabeth M Danks
Registration Quarter Oct-Nov-Dec 1954
Registration District Caerleon - Inferred County Monmouthshire - Spouse Frederic C Morgan
Volume Number 8c - Page Number 323
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Sister Dora Phyllis Danks - 1903 -
a death registered June 1923 :'(
DANKS Dora P 20 Newport M. 11a 189
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brother Ernest Leslie Danks - 1905
Couldn't see a marriage - only a death record
Ernest Leslie Danks - 6 Feb 1905 - February 1986 (aged 81 years)
Registration District Newport
Volume 28 Page 695
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sister Gwenllian I Danks - marriage March 1942
Danks Gwenllian I Sadler Caerleon 11a 649
Sadler Albert E Danks Caerleon
Death - Gwenllian Isobel Sadler - 13 January 1913 - March 1993 (aged 80 years)
Registration District Newport
Register Number B28C - District and Subdistrict 8362B - Entry Number 43
Could be a daughter born in 1955 - Birmingham with a Danks - Sadler connection.
Sandra
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Brother Clifford Danks - 1914 - 1944
FIND A GRAVEENTRY
Trpr Clifford Danks
Bayeux Memorial
Bayeux, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
PLOT Final resting place unknown. Name listed on the Bayeux Memorial at Panel 8, Column 1.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56274145/clifford-danks
http://www.fallenheroesofnormandy.org/Servicemen/Detail/24622
http://www.caerleon.net/history/records/memorial/index.html
Sadly did not marry - so no progress with the Danks line
Sandra
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sister - Lorna Octavia Danks 1910 Oct-Nov-Dec Newport Monmouthshire
Volume 11a - Page 215
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Father Henry Danks - Henry B Danks 1870 - 1950 (aged 80 years)
Registration Quarter Apr-May-Jun Caerleon Monmouthshire
Volume 8c Page 134
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Mother Elizabeth Holland/Danks
Elizabeth Danks 1875 - 1964 (aged 89 years)
Registration Quarter Apr-May-Jun Newport Gwent
Volume 8c Page 147
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DANKS, CLIFFORD - Trooper 3912603 - 23rd Hussars Royal Armoured Corps - died 6th August 1944 -
age 29 - son of Henry Benjamin and Elizabeth Danks of Caerleon - commemorated on the Bayeux
Memorial, Calvados, France - memorial reference:- Panel 8 Column 1 also commemorated on the
Christchurch Memorial, Christchurch Hill, Newport also commemorated in the Memorial List, Reference
Library, John Frost Square, Newport also commemorated on the Memorial Lamp, Memorial Gardens, High
Street, Caerleon also commemorated on the St. Cadoc’s Church Memorial, Museum Street, Caerleon also
commemorated on the Church of the Holy Spirit Memorial, Bullmoor Road, Caerleon
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I have just come across this - I may be able to add some information, my grandmother was Elizabeth Maud Danks (married Frederick Coker). Please message me if still ongoing.