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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Denbighshire => Topic started by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 August 25 17:49 BST (UK)
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My grandmother travelled with her 2 youngest daughters to Ruthin in 1940 or 1941 from Wallesay
probably by train . The eldest daughter HAZEL JONES. b 1927 went to the grammar school in OSWESTRY
Nana Maisie stayed in a local house with youngest daughter Sylvia JONES
It was somewhere near the railway ( no longer there ? )
my mother was taken in by a different family ...would it be possible to find which primary school they went to
any idea what street this is?
in 1943 my mother transferred to Oswestry and was boarded by various
families
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=893453.0
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sorry that picture isnt clear
first try was too large
my cousin thinks it might be Rhos street
mum.says there were paternal. relatives in Ruthin nearby but they didnt board with them .
i ll have to look thru.census and see who was there
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there is a newspaper article
thurs 24thOctober 1940
about Mrs Eva Pinion from middlesex
being employed at Ruthin County Primary
she was to teach maths at. primary school and physical training to boys at the grammar school
It was unusual for married women to work .Her husband was the military
She may well have taught my aunt and mother
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I love hearing stories of evacuees
A lady told me how welcoming people were to her family when she had to leave Guernsey
Imagine taking in 2 women and 3children under 5 in a terraced house which ended up being for several years
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Do you happen to know who the relatives are that were in Ruthin? I know Rhos St primary school and Ruthin Grammar School were both effectively on the same road.
The ancestor I'm researching (John Thomas Jones) and his wife ran the Anchor Inn which was at 1 Rhos St, and they had come from Birmingham to run the pub. So I do wonder whether they were involved with the evacuees at all, they didn't have children of their own.
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They were JONES..mums granfatther was s Abiah roger JONES
There were marriages to other jones and certainly innkrrpeps who.looked after relatives children in the older generationsmosltrly in Flint & llan mur
There is a thread about there children
No connection to Birmingam as far as I know the connections were all Birkenhead.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=813834.msg7480052#msg7480052
Do you have a post about your John Thomas Jones ?.
He's not on the extensive tree of my mother