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Ooo I’ll have to look for that Hanes Teulu. Thanks

I planted the seed about getting the MC and I think that is now on the cards.
SNG

Oh wow. Thanks for the newspaper report. I’ll send that to my friend now. She will be delighted.
It is her Uncle (mother’s brother).

I’ll go onto FindMyPast now and find the funeral report. (I did offer to do her tree for her but she hasn’t taken the bait yet.)

I’m not sure whether it was Crescent or Road, sorry. I may have made a mistake. I did find the 1939 register entry.
Apparently my friend’s grandfather was a station master.

One of Thomas’s brothers was a Baptist Minister as was / is my friend’s brother.

Does anyone know which ward / area Pendre, Cardigan would be on the electoral register?

I have trawlled through the 1965 ones but not found anything. Mind you a**** was glitching so I didn’t get through it.

Thanks for all your help
SNG

Hi

I have been going around in circles for the last couple of evenings so would welcome a bit of help which would put me in the right direction please in order to help a friend.

Thomas Elfed Davies was born 12th March 1915 in Pontypridd and died about November 1993 in Cardigan.

In 1939 he is still living with his parents at 11 Corbett Road, Caerphilly. Apparently he then joined the forces.

In Q4, 1948 Thomas married Nancy R.J. Lewis in Cardigan.
Sadly Nancy passed away in Q2, 1967 in Carmarthen hospital.
They had no children.
She is buried in Rhydlewis. (Thomas was later buried with his first wife.)

Where they lived is not sure.

Thomas re-married a widow - Mary Evans who was a house keeper for a Sea Captain and ended up marrying him. He was a lot older than her apparently.

I have looked for possible seamen and did find a record for a John and Benjamin Evans listed with Pendre, Cardigan. There were numbers after their names but what this indicates I have no idea, sorry.

I think I have found a possible marriage for Thomas and Mary in Q3, 1969 in Cardigan but it only gives her married name on the record.

I have tried to find electoral registers for the area to see if I can find Mary living with her first husband in order to find her maiden name.

Mary and Thomas lived in the house Mary lived with her first husband when they first got married but later sold up and moved to Stanley House, Pendre, Cardigan which is where Thomas was living at the time of his death.

Mary was known by “Aunty Molly” when she was married to Thomas and after not hearing from her in about 2006 my friend and her brother went to Cardigan to see if they could find out what had happened to Mary.
Stanley House had been sold.
I have found a couple of possible death records for the name Mary Davies in Cardigan but it is such a common name, who knows.
(No disrespect to any Mary Davieses. It’s a common enough name in my ancestry!)

Any help with finding links to Mary and Thomas so I can find more would be most grateful.
I subscribe to both ancestry and FindMyPast.

Many thanks
SNG

Thanks Heywood

I did have the birth certificate but goodness only knows where it is. I’ve been researching this family for over 20 years (went to Manchester and Ruabon archives in those days)

I’ve just come back to it because I am trying to find a link to a DNA match and it has to be among this lot somewhere.

Thanks to the researchers on this site, Annie went to America and married George Slatford there.

I don’t think Annie and Hannah are the same people because Hannah was born in 1857 and Annie in 1860.
(Alice Donbavand named her youngest daughter Annie and Alice’s son - my maternal grandfather named his youngest daughter Annie so it was obviously a name that was significant to them.)

I did find a death for a Maria Donbavand in Chorlton in 1872 but the prison record of Charles citing Maria’s name indicated that she was still alive in 1874 or did Charles tell a “porkie”?

I can’t read the name of the road on the prison entry. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDG8-1MD
To check if Charles or Maria or Hannah were living there in 1871.

Elizabeth died on the 12th January 1860 in Chorlton.
George remarried in 1864 and died in 1868.

Interesting that George’s cause of death was “paralysis” Ashtone.
We recently had a death certificate for my husband’s great great grandfather from 1906. He too was given the cause of death as “paralysis”.
Looking into it further he had suffered for about ten months and had been placed in an asylum because they didn’t know how to treat this at the time.
Modern day diagnosis is “syphilis”. Part of the streptococcus virus and treated today with penicillin.

Thanks for that extra information.