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Pembrokeshire / Re: Baptist Chapel, Sardis
« on: Monday 20 October 14 17:18 BST (UK)  »
Yes, they are both in the same grave - both names are on the gravestone. I have received your email address, so will send pictures when I get down to the yard. The chapel in Rosemarket is on Middle Street. If you start below the chapel and 'walk' up Middle street, you will see the graveyard, then the chapel head on. There is a cream-coloured house immediately after the chapel (behind it and slightly above it) - that's the Chapel House.

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Baptist Chapel, Sardis
« on: Sunday 19 October 14 17:00 BST (UK)  »
Good news - I finally found the graveyard register and found the grave you asked about. There is a headstone on it, although it is difficult to read the inscription because the carved side faces south west, which is where the rain flies in from. The ladies at the church also remember a Mr Palmer living in the chapel house in Rosemarket, and they said that his sister (your great aunt) is also buried in the yard. The grave is quite near the chapel building (therefore in the part we keep well tended and tidy). When we get a nice sunny day, I will take my camera down to the chapel and photograph the grave and take some general pics of the chapel and yard, for you to get a feel of the place. You can probably see pictures of Chapel House in Rosemarket on Google street view, as it is on the main street running down through the village. If not, let me know, and I will get a photo for you.

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Baptist Chapel, Sardis
« on: Friday 03 October 14 19:11 BST (UK)  »

We also have three elderly ladies in the congregation (all in their 80s) who have never moved from the area and have been at the chapel since their days in Sunday School - I will ask if any of them remember James Palmer - if as you say he lived at the Chapel House in Rosemarket and was buried at Sardis in 1950, someone might remember him or where he is buried. Interesting that they also lived at Ashdale Lodge and on the Back Lane (now known as Ashdale Lane) - Ashdale Lodge (not the house they lived in, but a new house built on the site) is a stone's throw away from my house. The Back Lane as they knew it would have had a handful of cottages on it, it is now lined with houses built in the 70s and 80s. 

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Richards of Sardis and Burton
« on: Thursday 02 October 14 21:00 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: MikePD on Friday 27 December 13 19:05 GMT (UK)
I have just started to seriously research the Pembrokeshire branch of my family tree so I am starting this thread hoping that someone else shares my interest in the family. My 2x Gt Grand Father Thomas Richards in 1861 was living in Stoney Glade, Sardis, Burton with his wife Elizabeth nee Lloyd and his 6 children. His occupation was a Dockyard labourer so it was a long daily trip down to Buton Ferry and across the haven.

Are you sure the address is Stoney Glade? I ask only because there is an area known as Stony Slad or Stony Slade at the bottom of the lane below Sardis Baptist Chapel.

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Baptist Chapel, Sardis
« on: Thursday 02 October 14 20:40 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: CassT on Monday 13 May 13 12:57 BST (UK)

Looks like it is a rural area, with very narrow roads.

Carole T

It is a rural area. Hello, I live just up the road from Sardis and am a member of the Baptist chapel there. As it was the first Baptist chapel to be founded in the area, it has a very large graveyard, the oldest part of which is now overgrown. Palmer is traditionally a Llangwm name, and before Galilee Baptist chapel was opened, Baptists from Llangwm were members at Sardis and many of them were buried there. If your relatives were buried in a family plot, the grave may be down in the old part of the graveyard. We have a register of names on headstones in the yard, which I will check for you. We may find a batch of Palmer graves together, which might mean that they are buried there. Unfortunately Google street view doesn't go down Chapel Lane, but there are pictures of the chapel online. If I can find anything for you, I will take a photo.

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