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Essex / Re: Eliza Reeve born 1883 Great Canfield
« on: Thursday 23 October 25 14:11 BST (UK) »
Have a look through the newspapers online to see if you can find any details about the wedding.
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Cardiganshire / Re: Tregaron Williams strange?
« on: Tuesday 21 October 25 14:11 BST (UK) »
Please remember that not all of us have access to Ancestry - its always better to trnascribe.
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Managment.
« on: Tuesday 23 September 25 17:37 BST (UK) »
How exciting - when I was very new to DNA a cousin asked my other half and his mother to get their DNA tested as she was trying to trace her father (they were related to her Mum and so we were using the exclusion method to find matches). About 2 years later I got a message out of the blue from Ancestry - a half sister to his Mum had appeared; no-one knew. This lady's son knew a lot about the adoption of his mother and we were able to work out when it had happened, etc which was whilst he (my MIL's Dad) was married to his first wife. Again, there wasn't much need for DNA this gentleman (the son) was very like his grandfather and also to the original cousin who had asked us to test originally.
So we had
Firstly the lady who asked us to test (in bold)
Grandad's brother + wife = MIL's cousin = daughter adopted out (full 1C1R to my husband) who also had a likeness to her great uncle (Grandad)
Grandad + Second Wife = My mother in Law = my husband
then
Grandad + Another Woman = half sister to MIL = son (half 1C to my husband) (great likeness to Grandad)
and the lady who brought it all about
So we had
Firstly the lady who asked us to test (in bold)
Grandad's brother + wife = MIL's cousin = daughter adopted out (full 1C1R to my husband) who also had a likeness to her great uncle (Grandad)
Grandad + Second Wife = My mother in Law = my husband
then
Grandad + Another Woman = half sister to MIL = son (half 1C to my husband) (great likeness to Grandad)
and the lady who brought it all about
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA testing an artefact.
« on: Wednesday 17 September 25 13:40 BST (UK) »Quote
Difficult to say the oldest sampled DNA in a study seems to have come from a person who died in 1930, but that does not mean older samples would not be viable.
The DNA of the Romanov bodies who died in 1918 was tested in the 1990s to confirm their identities. I believe that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh supplied a blood sample for DNA for the testing as he was the closest descendant on the maternal line - his grandmother was sister to the Tsarina (and they were both also grand-daughters of Queen Victoria). Apparently they used the mitochondrial DNA to match.
This was initially checked in the 1990s but believe more sophisticated tests were made in the 2000s
Nesta
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/prince-philip-family-russia-murder-b1829742.html
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Wales / Re: www.welshmariners.org.uk
« on: Tuesday 05 August 25 16:40 BST (UK) »
Unfortunately the gentleman who did the research, Dr Reginald Davies, has passed away.
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Caernarvonshire / Re: Mary Brown, born Bangor 1890(ish), daughter of James
« on: Thursday 12 June 25 14:16 BST (UK) »
Hello,
St David's (also known as County) Hospital, the children & maternity hospital in Bangor was not built until 1913, it was closed and then demolished in 1994. I was born there in 1962 and my son in 1983 I still have two bricks from the demolition as they sold them for charity - it was a big red brick building.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_David%27s_Hospital,_Bangor
St David's (also known as County) Hospital, the children & maternity hospital in Bangor was not built until 1913, it was closed and then demolished in 1994. I was born there in 1962 and my son in 1983 I still have two bricks from the demolition as they sold them for charity - it was a big red brick building.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_David%27s_Hospital,_Bangor
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Aberdeenshire Lookup Requests / Re: Was there a baby??
« on: Friday 30 May 25 14:51 BST (UK) »
Hi
Do you have his War Record ? That shows that he arrived back in Melbourne from England on the 30/11/2019 having shipped out in August 1919 therefore he could not have fathered a daughter in Australia in October 1919
But if he married in Aberdeen in December 1918 then there could easily have been a baby of that marriage in October 1919. Has anyone checked the England / Wales birth records in case she followed him down to the south coast ??
Do you have his War Record ? That shows that he arrived back in Melbourne from England on the 30/11/2019 having shipped out in August 1919 therefore he could not have fathered a daughter in Australia in October 1919
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If Stanley's daughter was aged 1 year and 8 months on 30 June 1921, she would have been born around October 1919[/i][/i]
But if he married in Aberdeen in December 1918 then there could easily have been a baby of that marriage in October 1919. Has anyone checked the England / Wales birth records in case she followed him down to the south coast ??
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Denbighshire / Re: John Abergale Evans (1867-1945) married Mary Davies
« on: Wednesday 30 April 25 14:12 BST (UK) »
Hello
There is a massive amount of information online about the welsh in Patagonia; not just family history. I would suggest a general google search as well.
Sorry at work so can't help further atm.
Nesta
There is a massive amount of information online about the welsh in Patagonia; not just family history. I would suggest a general google search as well.
Sorry at work so can't help further atm.
Nesta
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Wicklow / Re: Copy of Birth Reg. Shilelagh, Wicklwow 1908
« on: Tuesday 01 April 25 17:31 BST (UK) »
Hello again
Thank you both for confirming what I thought about the passenger lists; we live in North West Wales and Holyhead is only about 30 minutes away so a day trip to Dublin was a regular occurrence when we were kids - in those days no records were kept so I thought it would be the same.
Thanks Dublin50 - yes agreed about the school records - the local archives here hold the school records so I thought that might be a chance. I'll have a browse at the national archive.
You've all been a great help and I really appreciate it; its been really interesting researching another country's history.
Thank you
Thank you both for confirming what I thought about the passenger lists; we live in North West Wales and Holyhead is only about 30 minutes away so a day trip to Dublin was a regular occurrence when we were kids - in those days no records were kept so I thought it would be the same.
Thanks Dublin50 - yes agreed about the school records - the local archives here hold the school records so I thought that might be a chance. I'll have a browse at the national archive.
You've all been a great help and I really appreciate it; its been really interesting researching another country's history.
Thank you