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[osprey]

Hope that's not a slur on my homeland! 

It's ususally easier if you can trace a family as a group, but as there's only Elizabeth Jane, it's difficult to go sideways. I had an idea overnight, though. What age does she give at her marriage? If under 21, she should have needed parental permission. I'd dismissed father Evan from the 2nd marriage as just a name to fill the gap, but possibly she didn't give a father to avoid the permission question. Or if she said she was 21, we're back where we started. Or Ann could be a relative.....

 

[tac]

hi,no not a slur at all,but it sure is hard to find people what with all the funny names the places have;D.
the first age of elizabeth on the marriage cert  was 20 ,and i have just realized that would make her birth date as 1883 and not 1885,but i have a pic of her gravestone and it says 1885,and her second marriage in 1918 she is 33 which brings it back to 1885 d o b.i also dismissed evan as the father.
just been talking to my s,i,l, and she recalls her mum saying priscilla had a grocers shop in london(but where abouts she dose not know)

[osprey]

hmm, think I may have a possible, but I'm clutching at straws.

1891 census has a Sophia Priscilla Richards born Aberystwyth working as a cook in Dolgellau RG12/4642 folio 35 pg 4. Her death is registered
Sophia Priscilla Richards 73 sept qtr 1932 Aberystwyth vol 11b pg 69

Using the free search on the 1911 census, she shows up in St Marylebone in London.

Perhaps you could with the local registrars to see who registered her death & what address she died at?

http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=11778

 

[nestagj]

hello osprey and tac

hope you don't mind me jumping in but could Pandy Furnace Glan dyfi be the following place

http://www.everythingaberystwyth.co.uk/dyfi-furnace/

it states that the original smelting furnace became a saw mill and "pandy" means mill or saw mill in welsh; hope this may help.
Nesta

[osprey]

thanks, that does help. It's actually not so far from where her grandparents were in 1891. Think I might leave working out which enumeration district it is until tomorrow, though.

 
 

[nestagj]

That;s great

Nesta

[tac]

hi,that is interesting about sophia priscilla richards,i will drop Ceredigion  a line,
Also found that this Sophia is buried at Mynwent y Garn,Bow street, the same place as elizabeth is buried.
Thank you Nestagi for the info on pandy,wonder if she worked  there,or actually lived there.
            thank you one and all for your help.

[tac]

hi,on Ancestry in the national probate calender there is a sophia priscilla richards,now im wondering if they give the actual place of death or just the district,any one know.

[tac]

a BIG THANK YOU TO BREVITAS ,yes osprey you was right ,thanks to Brevitas who gave the info on sophia priscilla richards,she is our lady.Oh boy what a lucky find by all.i must say ROOTSCHAT AND ITS MEMBER ARE THE BEST.