----- Original Message -----
From: "Derrick Powell" <derrick(a)zoom.co.uk>
To: "Hugh Watkins" <Hugh_Watkins(a)msn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 7:41 PM
Subject: Fw: Missing Sarah!
Good evening Hugh - original e-mail below. Cheers.
Derrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Watkins" <Hugh_Watkins(a)msn.com>
To: "Derrick Powell" <derrick(a)zoom.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: Missing Sarah!
> Great Derrick
>
> Im flying to england today so remind me on Monday if you get no reply
>
> unplugged etc etc
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derrick Powell" <derrick(a)zoom.co.uk>
> To: "Hugh Watkins" <Hugh_Watkins(a)msn.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Missing Sarah!
>
>
> > I started with her marriage cert. dated 4.11.1901 which gave her address
as
> > 45 Commercial Street, Newport.
May be lodgings and temporary
Her age was given as 24, father Reuben
Evans,
> > a railway platelayer. Witnesses were J A Hyatt, Job Beale and M James.
(I
> > know the latter two as friend/relative of the groom William James).
Ceremony
> > was at Mill Street Congregational Chapel, Newport. Her death cert. in
July
> > 1959 gave her age as 81. Also, I've a copy from Blackwood County Court
dated
> > 23.10.1950 awarding her compensation following the death of her husband.
It
> > states her dob as 19.07.1877. From the 1901 census (RG13/4960) I have
the
> > entry for 45 Commercial Street - she was a domestic servant in a
restaurant,
> > aged 24 and her place of birth was Mon. Caerleon.
> >
> > I have searched the indexes for 1877 for Sarah Matilda as well as paying
for
> > searches to be done of the GRO - all without success. Then, finally I
had a
> > hit from Freebmd for Sarah Matilda and last week received a birth cert.
> > dated 22.07.1875, Caerleon Village, Christchurch, Sarah Matilda, father
> > Reuben Evans, mother Elizabeth Evans nee Sargent, his occupation was a
> > platelayer - so seems a pretty good match! Freebmd doesn't yet have a
> > marriage of Reuben and Elizabeth (I'll have to keep transcribing, am
> > currently doing births from 1875). Hopefully I can have a day off work
next
> > week and visit the CRO in Cwmbran to look at the parish registers. Not
very
> > hopeful though, as I visited the Gwent FHS Open Day last Saturday and
> > checked the marriage indexes for Caerleon on the Ebbw Vale stand without
> > success.
> >
> > My older cousin has told me he can remember Aunties called Minnie,
Elizabeth
> > and Margaret, but I have no evidence to back that up. Of all my rellies,
> > good old S M is proving to be the hardest to trace, and she was the only
one
> > I knew and lived with for 9 years. Any info/tips will more than
gratefully
> > received. Cheers.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Hugh Watkins" <Hugh_Watkins(a)msn.com>
> > >
> > > please send me every detail
> > >
> > > have you looked at the original parish register for witnesses to the
> > marriage for example
still pushed for time the net is very slow tonight
imposible
all English and Welsh counties 1891 are uploaded now to
www.ancestry.co.uk
Ask a *precise* question again in a couple of weeks I should have adsl
Hugh W