John Price 1856 Pwllheli

[jennyrob]

Thank You Everyone 

[collwyn ap tangno]

There was a Quarry in Pwllheli. It was a fairly big employer. It was called Gimblet Rock quarry. It was a granite quarry making road sets, but also supplied ballast for the shipbuilding industry in the town.

I’ve seen employees called rock-man and miner in the census.

Pwllheli is split between Denïo parish and Abererch parish. You won’t find entries for Pwllheli unless it’s an error or entered by someone who doesn’t know the convention e.g. from outside the area.

There is a Price family in the Abererch parish but it’s unclear from your post exactly where your John Price is in the census record. It sounds like there’s a mistake in his birth place.  Where was he in 1901?

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The only John in the area is with a family in Cil Llidiart, Abererch Parish. His father isn’t Moses though, it’s Griffith Price. They’re in the same address when John was a child.

It’s not clear from your post where you got the moses name from.  Did you get this from a marriage certificate?

[Mabel Bagshawe]

yes, the marriage registration states father Moses Price, quarryman.

He's moved south by the time he marries - he makes his mark on the registration which might mean an error wouldn't be spotted

1891 - Tylorstown with Ferndale. Place of birth llanllechan
1901 - Ferndale, Place of birth "Pwlleli"

Griffith Price's son looks to be someone different - he's John J Price on 1871 and can still be found in Pwllheli in 1891

[collwyn ap tangno]

Got it, Rhondda.  Yes I can see it’s definitely Pwllheli in 1901.  1911 it’s Llanllechan, there’s nowhere near Pwllheli with anything similar to this. Llanfairfechan, Llanllechid maybe, but they’re not close by. The villages near are Llanbedrog, Llannor, Llangybi, Llithfaen, Llanaelhaearn.

A search for Moses doesn’t come up with obvious candidates either.

It could be that he gave a false name or a substitute at least. I’ve seen questionable names on marriage certificates.

Your only option is to try to trace a birth record for him and pay £3 for a transcript through the GRO. Hopefully you can get a mother and father from this.

Have you found him in an earlier census? There was nobody obvious in a search of 1881.

[collwyn ap tangno]

There’s two john price in Pwllheli in the FreeBMD website. The one you’ve discounted and a second:

John Price Pwllheli 11b 419 sep 1855

A search for this reference in the GRO brings up a maiden name of Jones for the mother. You can pay £3 for a scan copy. Hopefully if he’s the right one it’ll also give you an address, fathers name snd mother’s name.

Good luck!

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https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp?Index=EW_Birth&Year=1855

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