Hi Tom
I checked the neighbours around Rhoda/Roda and there were no Newberry's that
I could find, not in close proximity anyway....
I looked for the name Newberry but there are so many of them you would have
to have a first name for them - I did find a Charlotte Newberry born in
Maesteg a milliner living with a tailor and family she was aged 34 and
unmarried - could this be a relation of Roda??
To locate the marriage I would advise you to search the St Catherine's
Indexes for Rhoda/Roda Newberry around 1872/73 - have you ever used these
indexes before - if not let me know and I will tell you how to go about it -
each year is in quarters and you have to search each quarter, but each name
has a unique number - so if you find Roda Newberry - you can check the same
quarter to see if there was a John Evan/s with the same number - if there is
this should be your marriage.....Look for the name Rhoda/Roda Newberry - not
John Evan/s - Newberry is the easier name to search for - then connect with
John Evans - or you'll be there for ever more looking for John Evans....
Do you have access to an LDS FHC place near you?? If not maybe a local
library will have this - if not let me know....
Have you found an OS map of Carmarthen Town yet??
speak soon
Pauline
-----Original Message-----
From: Bluecelt1(a)aol.com [mailto:Bluecelt1@aol.com]
Sent: 28 August 1999 05:05
To: CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: EVANS
Hi Pauline
Thanks a million for the info & all your help; I think the evidence is there
that this is my family. I had missed the fact that Roda was listed as a
widow, thus the absence of John. I would be very interested in the
neighbors
of "Roda", especially if any are named EVANS or NEWBERRY (what are the
odds?), thanks for asking. By the way, how do you identify neighbors in the
census (I haven't received my CD yet)? Are the homes listed sequentially by
order of enumeration (this was the method I have seen in the US), or can you
search by street name or number, or ?
Can you advise as to the best way to pursue finding a marriage record? Are
these also kept at the RO's, or in parish records? Since Rhoda <NEWBERRY>
EVANS was 44 in the 1881 census, she was born in 1837 or 1838, and her first
child was born in 1873 when she was 35 or 36. I would guess the marriage to
John to have been 1 or 2 years before, or '71 or '72, and guess again that
it
occurred in either Carmarthen or Maesteg.
Again, thanks for all the assistance.
Regards
Tom Crompton
Cincinnati
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