Matthew DAVIES, Blaenavon/Ebbw Vale ?

[pritch19]

Thanks Del

Will keep an eye on your posts and if I came across anything else of help to you, will certainly let you know.

Best

Steve   

[fluffnco]

Hi Del

Regarding Beatrice Davies birth certificate, found this:

Beatrice Davies Bedwellty March 1882 Vol. 11a Page 115

You said she was born in 1881 so the above fits if she was born late 1881 and the birth registered early 1882. She was the only Beatrice Davies born Bedwellty in the early 1880's that I could find.

best

pritch

Afraid that this Beatrice you found wasn't the right one Her father isn't matthew according to the GRO.

Ahh well Back to square one I guess lol

Darn relatives...nowt but trouble

Del

[pritch19]

That's a shame Del, I was really hoping you had found her at long last.  As you say, keep on trying.  Does get frustrating sometimes though doesn't it?

Steve   

[fluffnco]

Well I was hoping I'd not have to spend any more money on this lady but guess I'm going to have to LOL. I'm going ot ring up the gro tomorrow and ask for a search to be done of 1881 to early 1882.

Hopefully they will find her for me. Can't be that many Beatrice Davies with a Matthew as a dad surely? (Famous last words I know)

Will let you know if I ever find her

Del

[rhys]

Hi Del

Referring  to the ALICE IN 1881 who became BEATRICE
by 1991 I had a quick look at 1837 online
the following appears.
q/e DCEMBER 1879
BEATRICE ALICE DAVIES  PONTYPOOL 11a 136

1901 0n line has  an ALICE davies 21
born Pontypool in Paddington .


Rhys

[pritch19]

Hi Del

Hope the GRO does it for you     I'm still having no luck with my Richards family in Trevethin    So many missing records in that area.  Found a few clues but nothing definite.  Currently waiting on four certs from the GRO and one from Merthyr Tydfil where i'm trying to find the birth details of one MARY JONES!  Talk about needles and haystacks.  

Had some luck with the Gloucester side of the family last week though, took a few bricks out of that wall.  That cheered me up some.

Got my fingers crossed for you.

Steve  

[denben]

I don't know if this will help at all but here goes:

There was a Richard Davies (widower, brother, aged 76) mentioned earlier born in "Baislech".  I don't think that a "Baislech" exists but that's how we pronounce "Bassaleg", a little village just outside Newport.

I checked the 1881 census and found him (?) living in Bridge Street, Bedwelty with a large family of "Morgans".  It does give his birthplace as Bassaleg.

It might be wothwhile looking in this area.

Just to make it a bit more confusing the census says that it is Bedwellty, Monmouth, Wales but Bassaleg, Monmouth, England.  There was some confusion about this for many years.

I hope that this has helped but, after reading it again,  probably not. 

[fluffnco]

ok guys here's an update which is a LOOOONG time in coming but was well worth the wait

I recently was contacted by a 1st cousin removed who told me that according to information given by his father and written down Beatrice was actually an Alice Beatrice DAVIES and that she may have been born in Kington Herefordshire. Having looked up this Alice Beatrice I duly sent off for the birth certificate asking the GRO to double check fathers name matthew DAVIES and voila!! I am now in receipt of my Greatgrandmothers birth certificate. She was born on the 29th May 1881 The Ryse, Lyonshall, Kington R.E.D ( if anyone has access to a jpg of this place i'd be totally thrilled) and her mother was a Susannah Davies formerly Carnel. I've now gone on to look for a possible marriage of Susannah Carnel and Matthew DAVIES and it appears they may have married in September 1874 in Bedwelty Monmouthshire.I had the right area but just hadn't got the right birth place so I'm thrilled to have got past this brick wall that has had me stumped for so long!! I've also found matthew and susannah in the 1901 census living in Bedwelty in a small hamlet called Blackwood at 30 The high street. There's no sign of Alice Beatrice but there are sisters Emma and Nellie and brothers George and Willie still at home.

Thanks many times over guys for all the researching you all did in order to help me. You're all fab!

Adele (aka Fluffnco)

[welsh lady]

Adele here they are in 1891 Main Road,Blackwood,Bedwellty
Monmouth.RG12 4360 Folio18 page 5.

Matthew Davies,Head,49,Coal Miner,Herefordshire.
Susanah,Wife,24,Ebbw Vale,Monmouth.
Emma,Dau,12,Ruis? Hereforshire.
Alice B,Dau,9,Ruis? Herefordshire.
Ellen,Dau,7?,Blackwood,Monmouth.
George,Son,4,Blackwood,Monmouth

Best Wishes Welsh Lady