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Durham / Re: South Shields County Durham
« on: Tuesday 21 January 14 13:24 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks to everyone for Palmerston Street and its precise location, and to stanmapstone for the article in the Newcastle Journal. I have a copy of it, but still don't know what kind of 'mission' it was. The new Laygate Mission had a billiards room, basement made over into a gym,football and cricket fields, it is the meeting room and the donated pulpit which are intriguing.
Does anyone have elderly relatives in Shields who may remember the mission  ? (demolished early 1980's) 

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World War One / Re: 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
« on: Friday 17 January 14 22:46 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
Many thanks for your quick response. Directing me to www.1914-1918 net/northfus.htm. it has proved very helpful and answered many questions which I was preparing to ask you.


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World War One / 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
« on: Wednesday 15 January 14 21:41 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

My grandfather and younger brother enlisted in 1916 in N/ctle, aged 20 and 18, into the 3rd battalion, which I have just read remained in the Uk during WW1. If they were both coal miners would they perhaps have been persuaded to join this battalion so they could continue mining.
At some point they both 'transferred' to the Royal Fusiliers (London Regiment) 9th battalion, just wondering why this regiment, its a long way from South Shields.

Any help or ideas would be appreciated

Adrienne

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Durham / South Shields County Durham
« on: Wednesday 15 January 14 21:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
I am looking for information on "Laygate Mission".My grandfathers younger brother was killed WW1 in France and I have been looking at the war memorials in South Shields and Westoe to find his details. On a site called North East War Memorials Project I found them, there was in 1921 a pulpit with small brass plaque in the Laygate Mission.
Can anyone help with the location of this mission, is it still standing, and does it still have a pulpit with a wee brass plaque.
Googling gives me a seamans mission, no images of it that I can find. However this doesn't make sense. Ralph Wake was a miner, as were his brother, father and grandfather.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Adrienne; Surrey

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Breconshire / Re: Llanfihangel Nant Bran Breconshire: Jones family Vottywen
« on: Friday 06 December 13 22:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Mabel

 I googled 'Soar Chapel' Powys and thought I had found it, a former Baptist chapel in a peaceful village in the Brecon Beacons now a guest house, however the address is Ebbw Vale and it is south of the  'Heads of the valleys road'  the A465. I'm too far south am I not.
I had hoped to find some online bmd records for Soar Chapel.

Regards Adrienne


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Breconshire / Re: Llanfihangel Nant Bran Breconshire: Jones family Vottywen
« on: Thursday 05 December 13 21:05 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Mabel

Many thanks for finding Soar village; my AA road atlas was just not detailed enough.
Interesting you say it has a chapel, I can find some of the baptisms, marriages and burials for my Jones family on www.findmypast and then they disappear, possibly into this local chapel deserting St. Michaels in Llanfihangel Nant Bran.

Thank you Adrienne

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Breconshire / Re: Llanfihangel Nant Bran Breconshire: Jones family Vottywen
« on: Monday 02 December 13 22:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi GS
Many thanks for replying and for the suggestion that they are variant spellings of the same place, it helps put the same family on a farm for 3 generations.
Adrienne

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Breconshire / Re: Llanfihangel Nant Bran Breconshire: Jones family Vottywen
« on: Monday 02 December 13 22:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Roger
Many thanks for confirming Ffottywen and Rhulan are still there in Llanfihangel.
Adrienne

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Breconshire / Llanfihangel Nant Bran Breconshire: Jones family Vottywen
« on: Sunday 24 November 13 21:25 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone who knows Llanfihangel Nant Bran help.
I am researching Jones family who lived at Vottywen, Llanfihangel Nant Bran from 1870 onwards (10 acres according to census). Does anyone know if it still exists, perhaps not as a farm but a house in or near the village. Vottywen features hugely in stories of the family told by my mother in law.
Rees Jones when he married moved to Soar village, I am having trouble establishing where this was, it is not showing on any maps and 'googling' reveals nothing.
Rees was 1 of 10 children born to John and Margaret Jones who farmed Rullan, Rhuland Llanfihangel Nant Bran; on census returns spelled Rhyllan and Rhiwlan Were they moving about different farms in the village or could these be variant spellings for the same farm. Do they/it still exist.
 
Many thanks Adrienne in Surrey

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