morris west and nicholas does anyone know my family?

[surealpoppy]

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we have 5 sisters mary jane , dora ruth megan and gwyneth  all we know about there parents is that ther mother died in 1926 after having gwneth who was brought up by her sister martha (who was married to arthur?  .   
the father married again (winnie)   he died in 1939 in bridgend .he was in first world war a dispatch rider in india .   
dora married reg nicholas from tonypandy
  mary  jane married eric mathews 
ruth married reuban west
megan married ron and moved to london   
 im told that  they family came from tonyrefail thats about all i have  any one fill in the blanks?

[silvery]

What was the surname of the 5 sisters, also their parents names.  And we may be able to work something out.

Start by writing everything down with dates and places into a tree programme.

Legacy might be a good free one to start you off  http://genealogy.about.com/od/free_software/Free_Genealogy_Software_Utilities.htm

[suzard]

Welcome to RootsChat

Hope we can help you with your research.

Hope you don't mind me asking questions, but need to make sure we have the facts correct.

The 5 sisters : Mary Jane, Dora, Ruth, Megan and Gwynethh -what was their surname???

Sister martha who brought Gwynethh up -whose sister was she -what was her surname???

Father died in 1939 -what was his name?

Please remember not to post the names of any living person ,  you can use the Private message facility for that kind of information

Suz

[surealpoppy]

martha was mary jane s mothers sister          mary janes and the sisters surnames at birth was morris            mary janes mother died aged 26 after giving birth to gwyneth   mary janes fathermarried again winnie they had a child XX he died in 1939 approx   he was a dispatch rider in india around the first world war  they lived in bridgend       
 i know that mary janes mother was buried in tonyrefail as was her mother  i have no more names 
 i now a little bit of doras family  ive ben in touch with  her gggranson  unfortunatly  not alot on the sisters past     i know dora and mary  jane left home  to go to porthcawl after the  fathers remarriage then mj met her husband eric mathews  and  she lost touch with evrone after my mother was born  in 1937   
mj never talked about her family   i only met her a few times i was 13 the last time i saw her althi it was 11 yrs ago she died    mary  janes past is a bit of an enigma     id like to find out  for my mum and my daughter and her daughter as well as for my self   i do have a tree in making      it sort of stops at this point tho any help is much appreciated, lu

[silvery]

Do you want to work back in time, that is - build a family tree?    Or do you want to try and connect with more recent family?

[silvery]

There are five sister, Mary Jane, Dora, Ruth, Megan, Gwyneth.

Their mother died in 1926.      What was her name?

Father re-married died in c1939.    What was his name?

[surealpoppy]

i dont know apart from the father s surname was morris  n o idea of her maiden name at all or her first name or of marthas    married name i
 know martha married arthur and that had a son
the father died in 1939  he remarried (winnie) aprrox1927 he then moved to bridgend and they had XX
  my mum has mentioned an uncle shinkin   possibly mary janes  mothers brother   ? or her fathers brother  ?morris who lived in tonyrefail as well 
dora  stayed in tonypandy 
ruths last address was ouryhill tonypandy  megan married ron and went to london  no idea of her married name   
ruth married reuban west no idea what happened to gwyneth not alot to go on is it ? i have a family stories   but no names  i would like to  go back thro mary janes female line  and im intersted in what happened to the sisters i know a little bit about dora from when she married   i thought the female line as we are a family made up of alot of women i have a daughter who has a dughter ect mary jane had two girls i appreciate the women are harder to follow  i am finding the whole thing very interesting  tho         

[silvery]

You will need Mary Jane Morris and Eric Matthews marriage certificate. 

This will give you their ages and the names of their fathers.   

Then you will have to find the marriage of xxxxxxx Morris and the mother of Mary Jane.

Does your mother know what year and where her parents married?  We may be able to look it up.
Does  you mother know when her mother was born, the year?   
 Mary Jane and Morris are very common names, hard to pin down without some other clue.

Gwyneth,  was she born in 1926 or another year?   
Was her mother aged 26 when she died in 1926?

[surealpoppy]

mary jane morris born 1911 on october 13 th    not sure where but she said she came from tonyrefail her mother died in 1926  just after gwyneth was born  my mum thinks that mj and eric marrried in ebbow vale at a registry office  they lived in tuthcluin  (probally the wrong spelling )no idea of th eyear or of how old they were  i know mj was younf when she mwt eric she was working with her sister dora in a nursing home in porthcawl  she went to work there aged 15 to 16 or so we bwlieve  and was very good freinds with the matron there they were welsh baptist   welsh speaking  mary  j,s mother and her mother before that  are buried i tonyrefail possibly ainons