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Dear MeganWilber,
I saw your offer of help so here goes as I have not found where to look.
My Great Grandfather, Charles Hughes went to US and I believe, married, as they had a daughter born in Philadelphia.

Charles was born in Groesffordd, Llanrwst, Denbighshire, Wales 9 July 1840.
He married in Wales and his first wife died in child birth in Sept 1866.
In the 1871 UK census, he is not found but his daughter is with his mother in Wales.
Don't know exactly, but guess he was in the US.
From the 1881 UK census he was back in Wales- 8 Cambrian Terrace,  Ynyscynhaiarn, Carnarvonshire (now Porthmadoc) with his second wife Elizabeth Davies.
Their daughter, Jeonnie (wrong spelling of Jennie), who was born in "Philadelphia (British Subject), America" is with them born about 1873, and other children.
The next known child, a son, was born in Wales in about 1875.
I am trying to find out if he was in the US in 1870 census, how he got there,  marriage details, and birth of Jeonnie.
I have tried to find the right archive in the US but with little success, and quite happy to purchase the two certificates.
Many thanks, you did offer!!!



 

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