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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: 1861/1871 census cardiff mills family
« on: Sunday 22 September 13 16:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi Cardiff, thanks for the info. I am pretty sure the records that I now have are correct, just wondered if anyone had managed to get further back than Geroge Mill and Margery Copp. I did manage to get back two further generations on Margery's side, to William Copp and Margery Hutchins, then John Copp and Hester Bunbury, if your friend is interested.

ATB, Pete.

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Devon / Re: Devon church grave yards
« on: Sunday 22 September 13 16:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi Terry, thanks for the info. It makes sense that only the wealthier families would have been able to afford head stones. It just struck us as odd when we were looking around that there were no older graves and I guess there would be many more that were unmarked.

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: 1861/1871 census cardiff mills family
« on: Saturday 21 September 13 12:25 BST (UK)  »
Hi Carol, thanks for your reply. Very useful forum.

ATB

Pete

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Devon / Devon church grave yards
« on: Saturday 21 September 13 12:10 BST (UK)  »
Hi All,

Still new to this forum but wanted to ask a general question about the graves and headstones found in many Devon grave yards.

We have just come back from a week searching for ancestors in Devon and spent quite some time at the records office and searching round church grave yards. We felt quite lucky that we managed to find the graves of a couple of ancestors from 1830's. Looking around this was about the furthest back that we could see dates on headstones and there wasn't too many from this time.

My question is what was done to mark graves before this period? Is it likely that there are many older graves that were either unmarked or that have lost their markers? Is the stone/slate used in Devon prone to erosion?

Regards,

Pete

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How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here) / Re: PM
« on: Saturday 21 September 13 11:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi thanks for the reply. Yes just realised that since that was my second post the PM button has now appeared.

ATB

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How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here) / PM
« on: Saturday 21 September 13 11:27 BST (UK)  »
Hi sorry for this post but is there something that stops new users sending PM's?

Want to contact someone about an older post.

Thanks

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: 1861/1871 census cardiff mills family
« on: Friday 20 September 13 20:14 BST (UK)  »
Hi All, sorry to post to an old thread but just wondered if anyone was still working on this line?

I have just spent a week in Devon researching at the record offices in Barnstaple and Exeter and have got back as far as George Mill and Margery Copp who were the parents of William (Copp) Mills, husband of Rebecca Walter and father of George Mills who ended up in Cardiff.

Let me know if anyone still interested as it would be good to swap notes.

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