Hello Connie,
His surname is definitely DEATH, that's why I took special care in how I
worded the Subject of the email. If your DEATH ancestor is in Wales she
may well be related to mine as there seems to be none with the DEATH
surname until my ancestors arrived. Just a quick run through:- my great
great grandfather Charles DEATH was born in Suffolk 1820, where I have
his tree going back to the 1700's; sometime after the 1841 census he
moved to London/Middlesex, shared a house with his married BRUNNING
sister in the 1851 census there; He married there in 1850 a Welsh girl
from Cardiganshire, Elizabeth REES, they raised a large family. Sometime
in the 1860's two eldest sons and married daughter and son-in-law move
to Rhymney, Monmouthshire, where it appears the Cardiganshire REES
family have moved after the death of the father Richard, they stay with
them as lodgers, my great grandfather Morgan Rees DEATH was born 1869 in
Middlesex, after which the whole family moved to Wales.
My line of this family have always spelt the name DEATH as just that,
but I see that the death registration of Morgan Rees is spelt DE'ATH,
this may have been done by the hospital staff or his wife from whom he
seems to have become estranged, registered him this way, I shall see who
registered his death when I receive the certificate.
I hope that this answers your question,
Cathy in South Australia
cbeachy wrote:
I don't know anything about your Great Grandfather but is his
last name Rees
or Death?
I ask this since I have a GGGG Grandmother named Sarah Death or DeAth.
Connie Beachy
----- Original Message -----
From: "cemoor" <cemoor(a)bigpond.com>
> I'm trying to trace the burial of my great grandfather Morgan Rees DEATH
> of Rhymney in about 1940/1941, and maybe an obituary. He apparently was
> well known in the Rhymney community and well liked, he had during his
> life been engaged in sinking mines, a dangerous job and my mother says
> he'd had many injuries over the years. He'd later had a strawberry farm
> in Abergavenny but this had gone due to family problems. He ended his
> days in hospital, a bus trip away, but we don't know where it was, but
> his death was registered in Merthyr Tidfyl Mar 1941 (I'm waiting for the
> certificate) My grandmother was his eldest daughter but was in London so
> could not attend his funeral; following Welsh protocol my mother had to
> lead the procession in her place, (she had evacuated with us to Rhymney
> for safety) she says that it was a very big turn-out of the men of
> Rhymney, and I believe he may have been buried at St David's.
>