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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Glamorganshire => Topic started by: Mart56 on Friday 01 September 23 13:42 BST (UK)
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My great-grandmother's brothers were in the merchant navy. William was born 1831 Laugharne and George 1834 Llandawke. I lost track of them both after 1851 but recently found William getting married to a Maria Davis (she was then a widow named Chewings) in Cardiff in 1856. William, George and Maria are not to be found (at least by me) on the 1861 or subsequent censuses. I can't find them on local sailing records or emigration data. Deaths at sea is one I haven't checked. Is there such a record? Any ideas welcome.
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My great-grandmother's brothers were in the merchant navy. William was born 1831 Laugharne and George 1834 Llandawke. I lost track of them both after 1851 but recently found William getting married to a Maria Davis (she was then a widow named Chewings) in Cardiff in 1856. William, George and Maria are not to be found (at least by me) on the 1861 or subsequent censuses. I can't find them on local sailing records or emigration data. Deaths at sea is one I haven't checked. Is there such a record? Any ideas welcome.
I assume their surname was Hare
Marriage Mar qtr 1856
CHEWING Maria
HARE William
Cardiff 11a 254
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Sorry, yes. Their father Richard was steward to Lord Kensington in London and then moved to South Wales, settling eventually in Saundersfoot.
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There's a Maria Hare in the newspapers and criminal/prison/workhouse records in Cardiff/Glamorgan in the early 1860s. Sometimes of Whitmore Lane
Also a William Hare , landlord of the Mariners Arms in Whitmore Lane 1858/59 - fined for various wrong doing in running the pub
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In one report he's recorded as William Ayres