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The recrod Office at County hall cwmbran has all the parish registerss for Trevethin some non-conformist stuff; Schools stuff. Tithe apportionment maps and stuff; Copies of the Gwent FHS Monumental Inscriptions transcriptions; board of guardians recordselectoral rolls from 1890; Hanbury manuscripts; Wentsland and Bryngwyn Estates Manuscripts;

And those are just a few that I cherry-picked from the list in the leaflet published by Gwent FHS and available from their sales office r for 40p and a stamped addressed envelope.

Can I just put forward a couple of things that might be happening here.

first we have to remember that while we want our ancestors to be honest and truthful they weren't. They lied about things, they manipulated the truth, they let other people assume things so

They lived as a married couple there could be any number of reasons why they did not marry immediately from one of them being already married to waiting until a relative had died and left them the fortune in the will, whatever reason, they lived together but let people assume they were married. They would not tell the children this because children have to tell their best friend the biggest secret so the lids wouldn't know.
The information on the children's birth certs is what the informant told the registrar - Try to find a death certificate for Elizabeth and see who the informant is - and where she died.
The Clutton marriage could have been because they wanted to keep it quiet and so the nipped back there did the deed and came back to Ebbw Vale, the trains were available then.

Just my four pennorth from years of chasing some really good lying actors

Ann

The Barracks in Newport is called Raglan Barracks, Barrack Hill, Newport, Gwent

It is now the headquarters of a TA regiment and 22 SAS

Theconnection to Middlesborough will be iron and steel making. The industry was beginning to take over the Ebbw valley round about the 1880s and 1890s. A lot of the ironworkers came from the Middlesborough, Northamptonshire and Wolverhampton and a lot of people went from the valleys up to those places for better jobs and came back home when the ironworks were opened in Blaenavon, Ebbw Vale and Merthyr