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Messam family
« on: Saturday 25 February 12 08:29 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone trace this further back.


                  James Messam          The 1891 census returns for Abergwynfi show that living at
                  21.3.1830 Manton         the same address, Jersey Rd, were: Head William Heath, wife Hannah and 2 children;
                  15.2.1905 Abergwynfi, Glamorgan   parents-in-law. James and Mary Ann, brother- and sister-in-law Alice and William
                  m.14.11.1854 Marlborough      and then brother-and sister-in-law Charles and Sarah Reeves as well as their four children
                  Mary Ann Rose         Fourteen people living in a two-up, two down terraced house on the side of a mountain!
                  21.1.1835 Marlborough
                  19.8.1918 Abergwynfi, Glamorgan
______________________________________________________↓_______________________________________________________________________________________
Sarah      James   John   Eliza      Hannah      Ruth    Fanny    Clara   Alice         Emma   William
1857      1859   1862   1864      1866      1868   1870   1874   1876         1878   1880
Mildenhall      M’bra   M’bra   M’bra      M’bra      M’bra   Box   Lockeridge SSM         SSM   Swindon
      4.1.1923
m  Mar 1877 Highw   m 7.1.1882 m   m      mJune1885 Highw   m   m   m   m17.4.1897Llangynwyd   m   m25.6.1900 Glyncorrwg
Charles Reeves   Julia Withers   ?      Wm Heath      ?   ?   ?   Arthur Jellyman      ?   Lilian Lewis
1856 Badbury   1860 Haydon Wick         1865 Blunsdon            1873 Avening Glos         1882
↓      7.2.1935            ↓               ↓            ↓
↓_________________________________________________   ↓_____________________________      ↓______________         ↓______________________
(Edith   William   Lily      Chas Henry  Thos   Ernest  Frederick)   (Ellen Amelia   Elizabeth Ann   Edwin)      (Arthur          Alice)         (Beatrice   Frederick   William)
1880      1882      1884     1886             1892    1895    1897    1885/6               1886/7         May 1889      1898        1900         Feb1901   ??   ??
Stratton   S’don    S’don  S’don           Abergwynfi      Aber.   S’don               W Bassett   24.6.1889 Abergwynfi   Abergwynfi   Glos         Abergwynfi  ??   ??
m.9.7.1900                              The 1901 census shows Alice      In 1901, Wm and Lilian are in
John Davies      Sarah and Charles are         By 1901 there is no indication      living alone with the children      Abergwynfi, in Commercial St.
shown in the 1901 census      of the Heath family in Wales      in Sinope St, Gloucester. Her       with the new baby. The two sons
In 1901 Edith and      at 27 Waun St Abergwynfi      nor in England. Hannah and Wm      husband was ‘at the front’ – the      are shown in much later electoral
John Davies were                  may have died as there is a sign that   Boer  war?            Registers of 1925 and 1929, as
lodging with James      Father, James died at this      the two girls might be in the Swindon                yet their dates of birth are not
and MaryAnn at 14      address in 1905         District: Ellen in Blunsdon and                  known.
Waun Street Abergwynfi   Yet MaryAnn died at 10      Eliz in Swindon.                     By 1918, they are living at 44
Western Terrace in 1918.                              Norton Terrace, Glyncyrrwg

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Re: Messam family
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 25 February 12 08:51 GMT (UK) »
You might want to rethink how you present the questions you want to ask? ;D

Frankly, this is very hard to read, and I have no idea what it is you are looking for :-\
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Re: Messam family
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 25 February 12 11:40 GMT (UK) »
James Messom born 1838 Preshute Wiltshire Gen Lab

Mary Ann wife born 1838 Malborough Wiltshire

Alice dau born1875 Stratton  Wiltshire

William son born 1880 Stratton Wiltshire

Wanted before 1891 Please.

That may help see the wood from the trees ;D
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Re: Messam family
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 25 February 12 12:02 GMT (UK) »
This could be them, but you will need to check it out.

James Mesom married Mary Ann Rose

on 14 Nov 1854  at St Peter's & St Paul's Marlborough
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Re: Messam family
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 25 February 12 14:54 GMT (UK) »
Sorry, It didn't print out as it was in my file.
 It seems to have scrunched up. :)

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Re: Messam family
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 25 February 12 22:27 GMT (UK) »
1881 - Okus Cottages, Old swindon ??

James Messam    47  b Preshute. Groom and General labourer
Mary Ann Messam    46 b Malboro
James Messam    21  b Maboro  Ag lab
Eliza Messam    17  b Preshute, general servant
Fanny Messam    11 b Box, scholar
Clara Messam    7  b Luckenridge, scholar
Alice Messam    5  b Stratton st Margaret
Emma Messam    4   b Stratton st Margaret
William Messam    1  b Old Swindon [?]


Class RG11, piece 2018, folio 47, page: 25

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Re: Messam family
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 25 February 12 22:37 GMT (UK) »
Old Town Swindon is the bit up on the hill.
New Town was built around the railway and the GWR works.
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Re: Messam family
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 26 February 12 01:19 GMT (UK) »
1871
Hewley, Box, Salisbury

James Messam Head age 41 Labourer born Preshute, Wiltshire
Mary Ann Messam Wife age 39 born Marlboro'
Mary J Messam Dau age 18 born Marlboro'
Ann Messam Dauu age   13 born Marlboro'
James Messam son age 11 born Marlboro'
Eliza Messam dau age 5 born Preshute, Wiltshire
Hannah Messam Dau age 4 born Preshute, Wiltshire
Fanny Messam dau age 1 born Box

RG10 Piece 1896 Folio 51 Page 6