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Thanks, even an old imbecile like me was able to follow those instructions.

Hello Maineyhunter and thanks for adding your comment to this topic.

Very recently (last month!) that a second cousin of mine -- we both have Elizabeth WILLIAMS, nee EDWARDS (sister of 'your' Marg(a)ret EDWARDS) as a mutual great grandmother) -- gave me the URLs on the Gravestone Photographic Resource website for the Headstones (at St Tanwg's Church Cemetery, Harlech) for:-

1) Elizabeth 1803-1879 & Robert 1794-1879 THOMAS
http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravephoto.php?grave=396733&requestee=46554&scrwidth=1300

2) Robert 1828-1887 & Laura 1831-1918 EDWARDS
http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravephoto.php?grave=396730&requestee=46554&scrwidth=1300

and these have ben added to my public Rob Davies' Family Tree in Ancestry.

Unfortunately, I have no idea of the location of Clodwyn Inn.

For your direct relative Marg(a)ret EDWARD, my second great aunt, all I have for her are:-

A) !871 Wales Census aged 2 living at Clodwyn Inn with her parents -- also with her sister Elizabeth (my direct relative) aged 16
From this I've identified two possible birth registration records (both in the Festiniog Registration District) one in 1Q 1869 & the other in 2Q 1869. Have you purchased one or either & found when she was born?

B) 1881 Wales Census aged 12 living at 3 Tryfer Terrace, Harlech -- I've a first cousin once removed now aed 85 who is a grandson of my direct relative Elizabeth who recalls going as a child to Tryfer Terrace!

C) 1891 England Census aged 22, a Domestic Cook, living at 28 College Road, Great Crosby, Lancs

D) 1901 England Census, aged 30!, a General Domestic Servant, living at 14 Rutland Avenue, Toxteth Park, Liverpool

As I could not find her in the 1911 England or Wales Census, I assumed she had either married or died. There are so possible marriages in the Liverpool area, my only hope of finding out more was from a descendant , such as yourself.

However, as per my Family Tree, I'm showing she died , aged 38, as the 4Q 1908 Toxteth Park death registration record as it's a 'best fit' -- and no descendants.

If you're willing to share some more information on Marg(a)ret with me, either via this Topic or privately, this would be most appreciated.

Best wishes, Rob(ert) Davies

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me out with a brick wall I'm encountering

My 'half uncle' George DAVIES was born on 19 Dec 1900 in Birmingham, the first child of my paternal grandfather, George DAVIES (born on 1 Mar 1875 in Pentyrch) and his first wife, Mary Ann, nee GOODBY. Sometime after the birth of their second child, Lillian (1903 Birmingham - 1922 Cardiff), George & Mary Ann moved with their two children (back in George Snr's case?) to Cardiff where Mary Ann died on 2 Jun 1905 in Edward Street.

George Snr then married my grandmother Gladys May SOBEY on 14 Sep 1908 at Pontlottyn and they had four sons, my father being the third.

George Jnr was the Informant on the Death Certificate for George Snr who died on 6 Jan 1928 in Windsor Street (where my father was born).

Note:- Until the 1911 Wales Census became available, I had absolutely no idea where & when George Jnr was born -- before then I thought it was about 1908 in Cardiff! But with the 1911 Census details (George Snr, his second wife, his two children from his first marriage & the second son from his second marriage -- the first died very young -- living in Cowbridge Road), I first found George Jnr's 1901 (England) Census record -- with his parents -- and subsequently obtained his birth certificate.

Thanks to some info from my eldest cousin (daughter of the second son from George Snr's second marriage, ten years older than me, born & still living in Cardiff), who said that George Jnr was a Barber in Cardiff Docks who married late in life. I eventually (after five failures) managed to obtain his marriage certificate. This shows him as a Bachelor aged 33, a Hairdresser living at 38 Neville Street with the bride as Doris Evelyn RICHARDS, a Spinster aged 32, living at 88 Neville Street -- the same address as she's shown at on the 1911 Wales Census.

My cousin says that she can remember our 'half uncle' visiting her family until she was about 4 or 5 when he just 'disappeared' (so about the late 1930's).

I can find no emigration/immigration records for George Jnr or his wife Doris Evelyn and it doesn't look as though they had any children. All my efforts to identify their death records have failed -- ten for George & two for Doris. So, I'm wondering if George appeared in any 1930s onwards Business/Trade Directories for Cardiff as a Barber or Hairdresser.

Unfortunately, all the people who could have provided information are now dead -- my father died in 1976, his brother in 1979 & his brother's wife in 2004 -- before I started researching my Family Tree!

(The fourth son from George Snr's second marriage died in WWII)


If anyone is able to provide any information whatsoever, it will be greatly appreciated
Thanks & regards, Rob DAVIES (now 70) & living in Fareham, Hampshire, England

Thanks Emyr, the delay in my response is due to only returning home late last night after spending the weekend away at Saffron Walden (near Cambridge) where my younger daughter & her family live.

Yes age of death is 59 not 50 -- another typo by me.

When I updated my entry for the subject Robert EDWARDS with DoB of 29 Jul 1826, Ancestry immediately came up with a copy of Robert's Mate's Certificate -- issued on 12 Mar 1851 -- from its UK Masters & Mates Certificates Index!
It's amazing how things start coming to light when there are some real facts available and I can now provide something new to the subject Robert's great grandson (my mother's first cousin), approaching his mid 80s who used to visit his grandmother's relatives in Harlech when he was a young boy!

Your fantastic efforts, yet again, are very appreciated
Best wishes, Rob
(from a rather grey & wet Fareham, Hampshire)