Hi Mike.
Have just found Crown St Newtown on Google maps, so it's still there! It took a bit of
juggling around to find it, but I'm sure if you go to Google Maps and put in Newtown
Powys, then the address---Crown St, you'll find it.
I had a look on Ancestry's old Phone Directories but had no luck.
Good luck.
Ann.
--- On Fri, 31/10/08, Mike Morris <morrisind(a)rogers.com> wrote:
From: Mike Morris <morrisind(a)rogers.com>
Subject: [POWYS] Map of Newtown
To: "AAA Send mail POWYS" <POWYS(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Friday, 31 October, 2008, 4:32 PM
Many many thanks , through the kindness of various list members with their
suggestions and leads I now think I have located my long lost Grandmother
Ruth PARSONAGE. The confusion for ten years was that she was using
(Possibly) another surname SMITH. Her stepfathers name was SMITH. Smith
moved her family to Oswestry around 1915. I was told by a new found
PARSONAGE aunt in Scotland that she knew my great grandmother (a PARSONAGE)
in Oswestry and had often wondered why she was called Granny Smith (This
was Ruth's mother)
Anyway she told me that Ruth her cousin had married an OWEN and later a
JONES and use to live in Newtown. But she did not have any other information
to give me. Well with all the suggestions from the List members. and
searching the Welsh BMD site. I came across an Ruth Amelia Smith in Newtown
married in 1921 to a John Edward OWEN and another search turned up Ruth
Amelia OWEN married in 1936 to a Harold Jones. I know its speculation, but
the clues are very good. Its something I would never have found with out all
your help.
This following address was where my grandmother lived in Newtown.
18 Crown Street, Newtown, Montgomeryshire.
Would any list member happen to have a postal directory of this town that
would show who lived at that address from 1921 up to 1940? The husbands
first name might be shown as the head in the directory and prove out my
theory.
I have maps of Manchester and Salford dated 1844 and 1894 should anyone want
a look up?
All my best and again my heartfelt thanks for such wonderful help.
Mike Morris
Toronto Canada ex Manchester England
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