Hi Pauline, Richard and all others
My brick wall is my grandmother! My Nana was known as 'Sally' but she
passed away before I was born - I'm struggling to locate her birth
entry, those of her 2 sisters Maggie and Kidwelly, and her mother - I
shan't touch on the rest of my wall at the moment but suffice to say it
includes copious quantities of WILLIAMS', THOMAS' and DAVIES, let along
JONES' :-)
I have a marriage cert for my Nana - she married William Lemuel WILLIAMS
29 Feb 1928, at the Registry Office, Llanelli - by certificate.
On the cert, her address is given as Pantyrhiw, Graig, Burry Port and
her age as 18 - this gives an approx date of birth of ~ 1910. I can't
locate her on the 1911 census which means she may have been telling a
fib about her age - she died of TB and her death cert gives her age as
36 so est DoB Jun 1911 but again, I still can't locate a firm candidate
for BMD .
I did find her father Evan JONES on the 1911 together with his daughter
Margaret, his parents William and Margaret [nee Davies] JONES - again,
living at the family home - Pantyrhiw, Graig, Burry Port
RG14PN32874 RG78PN1877 RD596 SD4 ED6 SN64
JONES, William Head Married M 60 1851 Coal Miner Hewer Carmarthen Felinfoel
JONES, Margaret Wife Married 40 years F 65 1846 Carmarthen Kidwelly
JONES, Evan Son Married M 30 1881 Coal Miner Hewer Carmarthen Burry Port
JONES, Margaret Lettitia Granddaughter F 6 1905 School Carmarthen Burry Port
Evan JONES married a Catherine/Katherine/Katie THOMAS Q1 1903 - vol
11a/p 1247, RD Llanelly at the Registry Office, Llanelly 'by certificate'.
Both are noted as being resident at what looks like, Ponthenry, Llanelli.
Katie is noted as being aged 19, giving her a date of birth ~ 1884 but I
haven't been able to locate a solid BMD entry.
Their marriage cert does not list a father for Katie but the witnesses
were named and eventually, I found Katie on the 1891 census -she is
living in Lady Street, Bridewell with her widowed grandmother Letitia
[Protheroe] Thomas connections - Class: /RG12/; Piece: /4498/;
/Folio 64/; /Page 23
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She is on the 1901 census with one of the married Thomas daughters - Ann
[Thomas] JOHN and her husband - Class: /RG13/; Piece: /5089/; Folio:
/163/; Page: /21/ and enumerated therein, as being 'daughter' so the
inference is that Ann THOMAS is her mother but that the husband Thomas
JOHN, is not her father -- if he was Katie's father, he could have been
named on her marriage cert easily enough/.
/SO - things I'd like help with if possible please --
are there any parish records which might indicate when Katie THOMAS was
baptised/born near Kidwelly in 1884 or thereabouts
are there any parish records which might point towards when her 3
children were born - Maggie Letitia JONES ~ 1905, Lavinia JONES~ 1909
and Sarah Elizabeth JONES~ 1910/1911.
Where is Katie in 1911 and is daughter Sarah Elizabeth with her or was
she actually born post census?/
Cheers
Lynda
Christchurch NZ
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