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[tac]

hi,re the postcards as soon as i have had a look i will get straight back to you.i do know there was one  in welsh to william junior.i think there are about 4 postcards about this family,but we are trying to figure out why they would be with photo,s concerning my s.i.ls grandmothers own family.

re william, do you know who is mother and father were,

[jaycey]

William Richards' (b.1863) father was John Richards (b.1817) Agricultural Labourer, married to a Mary (b.1833) surname unknown.  John and Mary had at least five children that I've been able to find.  John (b.1860), Emma (1862) William (1863) James Edward (1867) and David (1870)

The 1911 census shows that my grandmother went to work on her uncle John's farm at the age of 14 - that's the John (1860) whose wife's name was also Mary, then sometime after that she went to London and married my grandfather.  They lived in Tulse Hill so if the postcards have a postmark on them I'd be very interested to know if they were sent from somewhere near to the Dulwich area.

If there is anyway you could scan the postcards I could give you my email address to send the copies to - how fantastic if it turned out to be my gran's postcards, sent to her brother - but that's really too much to hope for I think.

[tac]

hi,sorry cant scan them for some unknown reason my scanner does not work ,but i could take a pic of them and download to my pc then send them to you(if it works) i will see what they come out like first,if not i will find some other way of getting them to you.
thank you for the info on william,now im wondering if sophia is connected to hannah and not william.

[nestagj]

Hmm this is interesting ............do we have the right William Richards; but we know that our William had a daughter called Susanna and a son called W J and they saw Aunt Cilla off to London ...........and then Susannah went to London too - that's another connection................
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[Gadget]

Hi again and welcome to jacey 

Just a thought - could the 'aunty' have been used to refer to  just and older relative rather than the strict definition of  the sibling of a parent. I know that I called my parents' cousins,  who were much older than me, aunty and uncle rather than by first names (not respectful in those days) or Mrs/Mr (too formal for a relative).

William and Sophia might have been cousins, for example.

[tac]

hi brevitas,i always call my older cousin aunty even to this day,so are you saying that this sophia is a cousin to the richards children or another thought is she a cousin to either william or hannah.blimey there,s more questions than answers.
sorry didnt read your last sentence.

[Gadget]

It's getting a right old web, tac 

I hope that the Thomas Jones/Elizabeth Richards marriage cert might help. It's also worth tracing William's father,  John Richards (b. 1817) to see if there are any clues.

[tac]

been trying to find john richards in the census,s but no luck as there are quite a few of them,also tried emma with father and mothers name and there are quite a few of them too .

[jaycey]

Tac - may I view your tree so that I can see whether we have any Richards/Jones in common please.  How do I find your tree on Ancestry?