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Family History Beginners Board / Empress of Australia
« on: Wednesday 25 October 17 18:25 BST (UK)  »
I have a menu card for a Victory Day Dinner on the Empress of Australia (June 8th 1946). This was signed by my late grandfather (John Bithell Edwards), & what I assume were 11 of his colleagues.

My assumption is that he was a crew member aboard the liner, that was operating as a troop ship. (he would have been early 50's, so unlikely to be a returning soldier?)

Does anyone know if crew lists exist online?, I would love to find out more about this time in his life.

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Flintshire / Re: Help Request : William Edwards (Ysgeifiog)
« on: Saturday 22 October 11 05:05 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the tip Sarah....  :)

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Flintshire / Re: Help Request : William Edwards (Ysgeifiog)
« on: Wednesday 19 October 11 14:04 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for all of your help Sarah, it is much appreciated.

I will take some time to ponder this additional information & work out where to take it next.....

I may even take a break from my Welsh paternal heritage for a few days and start to look at my maternal line.... the Artell family from Chester : hoping this may be slightly easier, given the uncommon surname....

Thanks again, I could not have got this far without the help of this rootschat community

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Flintshire / Re: Help Request : William Edwards (Ysgeifiog)
« on: Tuesday 18 October 11 21:55 BST (UK)  »
.... I do hope that this is not the brick wall / end of the road that it may be, I was hoping to get comfortably into the 1700's....

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Flintshire / Re: Help Request : William Edwards (Ysgeifiog)
« on: Tuesday 18 October 11 18:44 BST (UK)  »
Sarah : thank you for the tip & information. As suggested I have spent some time looking for John & Ann in the census records.

For some reason 1841 did not turn up anything useful, but in 1851 I did manage to find a John (70, B.Holywell), & Ann (71, B.Ysgeifiog).

So whilst there is a match on names / locations, and ages are about right, we obviously have no resident children to cross-reference. One assumes that if this Ann were from Ysgeifiog you would have identified a record of the marriage, on the basis it would have been customary to marry in her parish church..... I guess the marriage event would have been in the range of 1800-1808.... but I wonder where?.....

Chris


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Flintshire / Re: Help Request : William Edwards (Ysgeifiog)
« on: Tuesday 18 October 11 13:51 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Jo!, potentially another few generations to be discovered then.....

Are these Parish registers just available on micro-fiche in Hawarden?, or is there any other way to access them?

Chris

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Flintshire / Re: Help Request : William Edwards (Ysgeifiog)
« on: Monday 17 October 11 17:49 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the response Sarah.

From this latest information it would seem reasonable to conclude that we have a positive link between Henry and the "right" William, with Sophia, even though Henry was born almost 7 years before the eventual marriage between them.

Having reached a conclusion on William, and having referred back to the baptism records previously provided by Sarah, William looks to have been born 1/9/1809, s/o John & Ann (Luke). This would fit with William's fathers name and dob on his marriage certificate.

Finding a baptism / birth record for a John Edwards (sometime pre 1790), is this possible, do these records even go back that far???

Regards, Chris

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Flintshire / Re: Help Request : William Edwards (Ysgeifiog)
« on: Friday 07 October 11 16:22 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to all for the valuable contributions  :) This exercise is like doing a huge jigsaw puzzle, but where all the pieces may not be available!

So it looks like my Great Great Grandfather was Henry, Born 1832-3 (son of the William we have been researching), is it possible to trace details of either Birth or Baptism to confirm names of both parents? (this will help us get over the Sophia/Sarah conundrum), I don't know if these records exist, or where to find them...

Chris

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Flintshire / Re: Help Request : William Edwards (Ysgeifiog)
« on: Thursday 06 October 11 11:23 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Paul....

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