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Monmouthshire Lookup Offers / Copyright on publications
« on: Saturday 03 June 06 18:02 BST (UK)  »
I hate to be a killjoy but could I remind people that if they intend to do look-ups in any publications from Gwent FHS they would be breaching copyright.
Local Family History Societies use the money raised from their publications to transcribe and publish more things. They also provide lots of local knowledge to their members and do NOT, as some people seem to think, use the money for holidays in Tenerife.
It might not seem like a big thing to look up information in the Gwent FHS publications but every time it happens it deprives the society of the chance to do just that little bit more.


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Monmouthshire / Re: WEBB in Monmouthshire
« on: Saturday 03 June 06 17:45 BST (UK)  »
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.


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Monmouthshire Lookup Requests / Re: marriage look up please
« on: Sunday 14 May 06 23:06 BST (UK)  »
Glad to help

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Monmouthshire Lookup Requests / Re: marriage look up please
« on: Sunday 14 May 06 10:15 BST (UK)  »
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

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Monmouthshire / Re: Coroner's Courts in Monmouthshire
« on: Saturday 13 May 06 23:27 BST (UK)  »
If it isn't in the merthyr Express try the South Wales Argus as this paper was in circulation then and has always covered Monmouthshire.


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Monmouthshire / Re: Newport Barracks
« on: Saturday 13 May 06 23:19 BST (UK)  »
The Barracks in Newport is called Raglan Barracks, Barrack Hill, Newport, Gwent

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

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Monmouthshire / Re: Hales Family
« on: Saturday 13 May 06 22:34 BST (UK)  »
Have you tried here?
http://www.halefamily.net/about.html

Loads of info about Hales - and a lovely person as the website owner

Ann

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Monmouthshire / Re: Woodward - Tredegar
« on: Wednesday 21 September 05 13:25 BST (UK)  »
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

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Monmouthshire / Re: chapel
« on: Wednesday 25 May 05 22:21 BST (UK)  »
It really depends what you want to know. I can tell you that the Chepstow Branch of Gwent Family History Society has transcribed the registers of the Beulah Congregational chapel.
Baptisms 1865-1900
Marriages 1865-1900
burials 1865-1900

That's all I know - it seems that the records start at 1865 so that is probably round about when it was started but it might have gone on longer than 1900 and they haven't transcribed further than that.
The transcriptions are on CD-ROM and available from
http://www.genfair.co.uk
http://www.parishchest.com
or from the sales Officer - see their website at
http://www.gwentfhs.info

Ann

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