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Cornwall / Re: Piper family of Breage
« on: Friday 06 June 25 16:24 BST (UK) »
Will do - thank you
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Cornwall / Re: Piper family of Breage
« on: Friday 06 June 25 16:10 BST (UK) »
Hi Rosie99
Thank you for your swift input
I have done Ancestry DNA but not sure what to do with it regarding the Pipers
Thank you for your swift input
I have done Ancestry DNA but not sure what to do with it regarding the Pipers
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Cornwall / Piper family of Breage
« on: Friday 06 June 25 15:12 BST (UK) »
Hi
My 4 x great grandmother Sarah Piper was born in Bristol St Phillip/Jacob circa 1778, the daughter of John Piper and Mary (possibly Watkins)
There are several Ancestry trees with John Piper listed as coming from Breage, born circa 1743
I am unsure where to seek out more information on the possibility of the Pipers from Breage and wondered if there was a Breage expert on the board
Thanks
Richard
My 4 x great grandmother Sarah Piper was born in Bristol St Phillip/Jacob circa 1778, the daughter of John Piper and Mary (possibly Watkins)
There are several Ancestry trees with John Piper listed as coming from Breage, born circa 1743
I am unsure where to seek out more information on the possibility of the Pipers from Breage and wondered if there was a Breage expert on the board
Thanks
Richard
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Europe / Re: Bruynseels (sic)
« on: Sunday 04 May 25 15:03 BST (UK) »Alice Edith Esther WATKINS died on 27 October 1946 at 6 p.m in Antwerp (St-Elisabeth Hospital)
Born 11 October 1896 Woolstone, England, without profession, residing at Antwerp, Luxemburgstraat nr. 36, wife of Joannes Baptista BRUYNSEELS, without profession, daughter of the late William WATKINS and the late Esther WOOD
The informants were employees of the hospital
Felix Archief (city archives Antwerp)
death register
https://felixarchief.antwerpen.be/detailpagina?invnr=2992_171&page=1&pageSize=10&type=copy
click on the link ‘Overlijdensregister.pdf’ (it takes a while)
image 16 of 304 (cert nr. 3057)
register with the causes of death
https://felixarchief.antwerpen.be/detailpagina?invnr=MA_74590&page=1&pageSize=10&type=copy
image 91 of 115 (nr. 3057)
Cause of death: heart disease
Joannes Baptista BRUYNSEELS remarried later and he died in 1959. (certs not online, only the death index)
There is a Joannes Baptista BRUYNSEELS born in 1877 Antwerp, but I don’t know whether he is the right one. This one married in 1901.
Do you know the name of Joannes Baptista his father (marriage cert Bruynseels-Watkins)?
Hello and a very belated thank you for the above information
Would the be a way of finding if Joannes & Alice had any children?
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Monmouthshire / Re: Thomas Jones, his wife and son Llanbadoc
« on: Sunday 06 April 25 16:32 BST (UK) »have you the birth address for Annie in 1891 so we could search the census for that address
there is a private tree on ancestry with Willie on you may already know about
Unfortunately not - the cert only says Woollaston, father's occupation general labourer
I believe that the Ancestry tree has been copied from mine
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Monmouthshire / Re: Thomas Jones, his wife and son Llanbadoc
« on: Sunday 06 April 25 16:15 BST (UK) »Right.
Was William Watkins a widower when they married?
I see in 1901 there is a 21 year old son William and possible in 1891 these 2?
William Watkins head 42
William Watkins son 10
Yes he was - his first wife (Eliza Dorrington) had died in 1889 - their son William was born in 1880 so this is a different William
And yes William Watkins and his son William were in residence at Woodside in Woolaston with no sign of Esther, Willie or the one month old Mary Ann
Also, in 1891, both of Esther's parents were still alive and living in Hoarwithy, Herefordshire - Esther and the children are not on the census there either
And yes, the 1911 Census does say married for 25 years but that is incorrect - it also says nine children of the marriage but I've only ever found five
I think that they added up the children of both their marriages
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Monmouthshire / Re: Thomas Jones, his wife and son Llanbadoc
« on: Sunday 06 April 25 16:04 BST (UK) »Certainly all sounds "normal" doesn't it.
Pity we can't see the 3 of them as a family together anywhere.
Was Willie with Esther and her new husband in 1891?
This is another issue - I cannot find Esther & William Watkins nor Willie on the 1891 Census, despite searching for many years
By the time the census was taken on 5th April 1891, the first child of her marriage to William Watkins was already born - she was Mary Ann Watkins (known as Annie to the family) who was born at Wollaston, Gloucestershire on 3 March 1891
Mary Ann's birth certificate (misspelt Watkings) lists the mother as Esther Watkings late Jones, formerly Wood
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Monmouthshire / Re: Thomas Jones, his wife and son Llanbadoc
« on: Sunday 06 April 25 15:52 BST (UK) »The newspaper report of the drowning refers to him as William - aged 13 - stepson of William Watkins.
If his birth was registered as Willie Christopher I would have expected the death reg to be in those names but it’s William
Is Esther shown as nee Wood on the birth cert or as Esther Wood
I have the death certificate where it is recorded as William Jones, son of Thomas Jones (farm labourer) - my great-grandmother, his half-sister recorded the death and burial in the family bible, which is in my possession
Esther is shown as Esther Jones (formerly Wood)
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Monmouthshire / Re: Thomas Jones, his wife and son Llanbadoc
« on: Sunday 06 April 25 15:44 BST (UK) »I guess it's still possible she wasn't married and said she was a widow for respectability but hard to know
There are single men called Paul Jones in Monmouthshire in 1881 - where is near to Llanbadoc - is it a small place?
It's near to Usk