Hi Gareth,
If you want a birth certificate try the Powy County Council Registration Office
@http://www.powys.gov.uk/index.php?id=5528&L=0
I have found their Family History Certificate Service very helpful. They will search a
year either side of a given date for the details you give e.g name of child and mother and
place. If they do not find the birth there is no charge. You can then change a detail and
ask for a new search. If you buy a certificate there is a postage charge making the cost a
little more than the GRO.
Best wishes,
Mary
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From: Gareth Jenkins <gareth_j(a)hotmail.com>
To: Powys List Digest <powys(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 15:55
Subject: [POWYS] Rebecca James, Cwmdu
I´m trying to fill in gaps in the life of my Great Great Grandma Rebecca James. So far I
know that she was born in Cwmdu, Breconshire in about 1825, but I don´t know who her
parents or siblings, if any, were. On the 1841 census she is a servant in the house of
William Stephens, a wheelwright, in Llanfihangel Talyllyn, but in 1851 she and her 1 year
old son William James are found as pauper inmates of the Union Workhouse in Crickhowell.
Her occupation is described as "formerly House Servant" so maybe she was
dismissed because she was pregnant? I can´t find a birth entry for this William so can´t
ask for a birth certificate, but presumably the father´s name will be blank anyway. In
1852 she married my Great Great Grandfather Thomas Williams of Crickadarn (born about
1832) and in 1861 their address is Pond Row, Llangattock .He accepts William as a stepson
so he wasn´t the father, I guess. They had further children including my Great Grandma
Ann(e)
Williams. All and any info gratefully accepted!
Gareth Jenkins
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