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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: 1871 Census - PIKE
« on: Thursday 20 March 14 11:06 GMT (UK)  »
Have you found out about the Pike family in 1871?
This is my Greatgrandfather's family. My Grandmother is Susan and I have searched for her birth but cannot find it.
Would you like to know more and are you related?
Janice

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Glamorganshire Completed Lookups / Great grandmothers death cert.
« on: Saturday 14 November 09 13:07 GMT (UK)  »
The informant on my G. Grandmothers death cert. in 1932  was
H.S.John of Heol Fach, Treboeth, Swanses,  Grand son.
Could someone with access to 1911 census give me his full name and family details as I am having trouble tracing him. Any information would help. Thankyou.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Message to Mothball
« on: Tuesday 03 November 09 09:06 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, Hystericalwriter (I love your name)!!!but I think it's only for foot passengers. Pity really, as if it was a car ferry it would save a lot of congestion on the road down to the West of England. I know I have sat for many hours in jams going to and fro on holidays but there must be a reason. Probably money again!!! or something to do with weight and tides.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Message to Mothball
« on: Monday 02 November 09 08:17 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, Mothball, I was born and bred in Swansea and my Mother lived in Swansea town itself. She often told me of the copper works and the smell that was in the air as she walked to school. There is now a residential housing complex called The Copper Quarter - a far cry from the old days!!
I remember being taken as a small child on the ferry crossing Swansea to Ilfracombe. We didn't have much money in those days as my father was ill and didn't work (he died when I was 10 years old) so it can't have cost much for the tickets! Swansea was a thriving town with all its industries - sadly lacking in everything now.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Message to Mothball
« on: Sunday 01 November 09 19:59 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for all your replies. My Gr. Grandfather must have heard of the coal mines  in Aberdare but didn,t go down them but ended up selling fish!! This is why I wondered why they chose Aberdare!
My maternal grandfather came to Swansea from Somerset. He was a blacksmith by trade but found work on the docks. So yes, I consider myself a patriotic Welsh girl but my dna would prove otherwise and I probably have a lot of English relatives dotted around!

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Glamorganshire / Message to Mothball
« on: Sunday 01 November 09 09:00 GMT (UK)  »
Re your reply to "Where do I go from here" you say Aberdare was swamped with people from all over. Could you tell me why that was as my Gr.Grandfather and even his mother later on moved to Aberdare from Norfolk and settled there. ::)

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Glamorganshire / Re: 1911 census - Leswisse family
« on: Saturday 29 August 09 08:30 BST (UK)  »
I am trying to trace my family Hastings.
Alfred Henry Hastings married Margaret Matilda Leswisse 1903 Swansea.
Any connection to you Leswisses's?

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Glamorgan Look up please
« on: Sunday 23 August 09 19:35 BST (UK)  »
Sorry about that, Bethan. Hope Maddison reads it!!!

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Burial Bridgend
« on: Sunday 23 August 09 19:32 BST (UK)  »
Hello again Bethan,
I knew where my relative was buried but didn't know the area in the cemetery and the clerk at the cemetery looked up the details on the computer and told me exactly where it was, even took me there! But , of course, you don't know which cemetry. Would it be worth you taking a guess and looking in each cemetery? There is a list of local ones on the Bridgend County web site.

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