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Wales / Re: Senghenydd
« on: Monday 26 October 09 08:19 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Sarenid
I really do hope all the stops are pulled right out for the centenary of the mine disaster and God willing I'll be there. I agree the John Brown book explains a great deal. My mother was only five when her father and grandfather were killed, my gran never talked about it I have no family photo's so I have no idea what my grandfather looked like but I shall continue to find his family line. Regards phylbill

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Wales / Re: Senghenydd
« on: Sunday 25 October 09 07:48 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Dingaling, It was really great and quite emotional viewing those photos I am pleased you were thrilled by them also. Wasn't it a fantastic thing  Diacamera did.  It really does look quite wonderful and I shall soon see it for myself I hope my photos's will be as good without the snow please.
When I have been I will post on Rootschat some of my efforts if I get the technology right so keep looking. Regards Phybill

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Wales / Re: Senghenydd
« on: Saturday 24 October 09 15:34 BST (UK)  »
Daicamera, wow what can I say except a very big thank you for the photos. Very soon now I shall see Senghenydd for myself and I was feeling very apprehensive about my visit but those photos have calmed my nerves and I can see that the area is very beautiful. I am sure it will be a visit I shall never forget.

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Wales / Re: Senghenydd
« on: Tuesday 21 July 09 08:20 BST (UK)  »
It will be a pleasure, I will let you know when I plan to go.

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Wales / Re: Senghenydd
« on: Monday 20 July 09 13:02 BST (UK)  »
I also have the Basil Phillips book, I have no idea what compensation was given, my mother was five and another baby was on the way born the following March, my gran remarried and had two further children one is still alive living in a home in Bristol, she has dementia so unable to talk to her about the past, which is very sad really. The saddest thing is not having any photo's from those early days I guess they were too poor to have had photo's taken. The research is very time consuming but I shall keep going. I hope to go to Senghenydd before the year is out and will visit the grave yard it will be interesting to see if there are any gravestones. Phylbill

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Wales / Re: Senghenydd
« on: Monday 20 July 09 09:31 BST (UK)  »
Hello Dingaling
My grandfather is also in the Penyrheol cemetery and one of the things I do have is the bill from Caerphilly Urban District Council. His grave is no H168 it cost 7 shillings and 6 pence 10 shillings to bury him 3 shillings and 6 pence to enter his name on the register, 2 shilling and 6 pence for a certificate and 5 shillings for stamp of grant of right of burial. A grand total of 1 pound 8 shillings and 6 pence. I wonder if anything will be done to mark the centenary, worth a little investigation I think. Shame I know so much about his death but so little about his birth and short life. phylbill

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Wales / Re: Senghenydd
« on: Saturday 27 June 09 19:06 BST (UK)  »
Oh gosh, those pictures really show the poverty of the Welsh mining community. I looked at those women and children and wondered if any of them were my relatives as I have no early photos at all. Thanks for posting them.  :(

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Wales / Re: Senghenydd
« on: Thursday 25 June 09 21:37 BST (UK)  »
Hi, Well found William and Annie living with Annie's father at 51 High Street Senghenydd in the 1911 census, it says he was born in Merthyr Tydvil so I reckon John and gwen Prosser were his parents. So the search continues but I think I may now have a lead.

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Wales / Re: Senghenydd
« on: Thursday 25 June 09 14:20 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for such swift replies it felt good that there were folks out there looking out you. I know little of the Prosser family. I have the marriage certificate of William Prosser to Annie Lewis 25th June 1906 at the Wesleyan methodist chapel Caerphilly. William is down as being an engine driver his father was called John (deceased) and he was down as a coal miner. Is his death 1888 Pontypool Vol 11a.
The only other thing I have is the grave certificate of William No H168 Penyrheol Cemetery. As for the 1911 census I have tried on a number of occasion and just draw a blank. Also I wondered if I had found the family in the 1891 census, wife gwen (was she Gwenllian death 1898), children one being a William but then I lose them all again in the 1901 census, realizing of course parents may have both died before this census. I think I'm rambling!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope to visit Senghenydd before the years out

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