British Families of Hughesovka S.Russia 1869 - ?

[mona lisa]

I am posting this topic here as maybe Wales is not the most logical place for researchers of their Families to look.A Town was created  Names Nixon Balfour Allcock of Rhymney/Caddick/Calderwood/Cartwright of Dowlais/Clark/Penkov/Cooke/ Hearne/ Davies/Edwards and Steele/Harbottle/Jenkins/John/Vaughan/Kay/Lethbridge/Lewin-Wiskin  Families Perry/Plummer/Rees/Richards/Skyrme/Waters/Watkins/Wiskin/ New Russia Company was:
John Hughes  born 181815 married 1844 to Elizabeth Lewis of Merthr Tydfil died 1889 Saint Petersburgh. He was an Engineer who set up Iron Works Factories in an area that was rich in coal and iron ore deposits in 1869  in the Steppes of what is now Ukraine but in 1869 -1919 the Russian Empire.Employed  8000 workers in 1896 and 12,000 in 1907.  In 1896 there were still 22 Families living there David Davies(Lizzie) arrival 1892 with 2 children
William Jones arrived 1881  David Waters(Gweendoline) 4 children arr 1878 Thomas Thomas arr 1879. John John (Sarah) 2 children arr 1875. Lwellyn Evans (Mary Anne) 1 xhild Gladis aged 1 yr Arr 1875 .William Gibbon(Katherine) 5 sons/3 daughters arr 1875
Widow Jmes (Mary) 4 sons arr 1872. Wm Jones arr 1875 Thomas Mort(Rachel) 3 children arr 1875. David Jenkins(Mary) 3 children arr 1889. Wm Jones(Mary) arr 1880. Francis Davis(Sarah) 4 children. arr 1890. Wm Thomas (Ellen) William (25) Elizabeth (33) Vera (9) arr 1869. Edward Edwards (Ellen)  2 sons Edward (24) William (13) arr 1874 William Williams arr 1872. Thomas James (Mary) 5 children arr 1873. Edwin James Williams arr 1878 John Richards arr 1873 Richard Richard arr 1874 Herebert Rees (Theresa) 4 sons 2 daughters arr 1887 Edmund James arr 1894 All children named and ages.
Other Families in Hughesovka/   http://www.glamro.gov.uk/Hughesovka/hka-listnames.html


I am thinking maybe thats where my Adrian Reine or variation was a Machinery salesman

[mshrmh]

John Hughes was one of the "unsung heroes" on the last series of BBC Radio 4's Making History. It is available to "listen again" at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016ldsw#synopsis

and from there a link to a piece about a book on the subject (and there are more links there):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/southeastwales/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8485000/8485707.stm

[marysma]

Hi,

    this post interested me as my late uncle Cyril(spike)Speers has a book about the families of Hughesovka.Uncle Spike told me the town was named after his Grandfather.

Marysma

[juvuk]

Hi,

this is my first post here, google helped me find this thread which has listed some of my family (my great great grandfather) Thomas James senior. but i don't seem to be able to find any records of him returning to Wales.

i don't seem to be able to find any information about any of them, although i know they did return (my Grandfather still lives in Cardiff today)

anyone have any pointers or info i can use?

thanks, JuvUK

[Pastmagic]

See
http://www.glamro.gov.uk/hughesovka/hka-index.html

For photos.

http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=16490&inst_id=118&nv1=search&nv2=
For parish records

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/onlinelists/GB%200214%20D381.pdf
For full details of the Glamorgan archive.

PM

[juvuk]

thanks Pastmagic, i'll see what i can find

and @marysma, did your uncle Cyril have a brother named Alec? and was he married to Margaret?

i think Cyril Speers is my Grandfathers brother!!

[marysma]

     


    Yes Justin-you have the right family!

    Replied by PM.


  Marysma

[Valerie125]

Hello to all of you!
I live in Donetsk (that's how Hughesovka is called now) and I am highly interested in lives of those families that had stayed here. I am doing a research about the history of this town...
So, anyway, if there is a way I can help you with finding your roots - just let me know, I will be literally grateful for you to ask me for a help!!!
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[GrahamSimons]

Well worth a look is the Gathering the Jewels site, http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/ just put Hughesovka into the search box (but set aside some time - there's a lot to see).

The Old Merthyr Tydfil site has some material as well; for those researching I am sure that contributions to the site would be welcomed. http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/hughesovka.htm