Update for Fronia on Joshua Gimblett.
I went down to the library in Wilkes-Barre as promised, BUT
their microfilm of the Wilkes-Barre Record newspaper begin 1 Jan. 1891 and
we needed 1 June 1889. The librarian directed me to the Wyoming Valley
Historical Society two doors away but it didn't open for an hour and a half.
I'll go back there, perhaps Saturday.
I E-mailed the student who had done the History of the Nebo
Baptist Church in Nanticoke and he replied that he had NOT come across the name
"Gimblett".
I have a call in on the First English Baptist Church's
answering machine to see if their records contain the Gimblett name but no
one there has called me. The Nebo Church researched thinks that the English
Baptist church has very good records, let's hope and pray that this is the right
church and that their records are complete and that Joshua's folk attended that
church.
I still have to check with the woman at the Plymouth
Historical Society who has the 1891 city directory for Nanticoke, they're only
open on weekends.
On an unrelated subject, namely the search for our gt. uncle
James Beynon, whom we believe migrated to America in
1882 then disappeared. Our new approach to finding him may be of help to someone
else.
We have assumed that he died before the 1900 census was taken
and we know he had at least one child before he died
because an unnamed male grandson is mentioned by his niece in a 1943 letter to
her brother in Wales.
With that in mind, Kay
Schorah did a search of the 1910 census and found two Beynon
youth, one 18 and one 14, not living with families
named Beynon. Both are females.
The 18 year old was working as a servant for a family in Wilkes-Barre, and the
other, 14 years old was living with a widow names
Davies. Assuming that both married locally, I should be able to find their
marriage licenses which would give us they name they bore until they
died. I think the Penna. death
certificates give the name of the deceased's parents.
Knowing that and assuming they died in
Penna., we can get the death certificate which will
give us the date of their deaths and hopefully I should find their obituaries in
the local paper with the names of parents and surviving relatives
listed. Jos.
Gregory
The Gregorys
Pen y Mynydd
Coed gyda Penn
(Mt. Top, Pa.)