Hi all
Seeing things are so quiet I thought I'd re-post my interests - been a very
long time since I did that. Lots of newbies around these days. Sorry, have
to cross-post on lists. Just simply delete the extras.
Border counties, etc:
BAMBER, Liverpool (shipyard and/or lumber family. Very frustrating trying
to find descendants of this lot!)
BATHER, Oswestry district, Shropshire (corn flour millers, etc.)
BATHO, Ellesmere, Shropshire (farmers)
BAYLEY, Malpas, Cheshire 1881 (tailors)
BOFFEY, Shropshire ALL, RADNOR ALL (builder/tavern licensee in Oswestry -
son in RADNOR was a labourer)
BROWN, Ellesmere, Shropshire (grocer)
BUFFEY, Lancashire
CURETON, Ellesmere, Shropshire
DAVIES, Ellesmere and Ford, Shropshire (grocers/post office)
DEAN/E, possibly Weston Lullingfields or Myddle, Shropshire
HANKEY, Golborne, Lowton, or Warrington, in Lancs. (farmers/railway engineer)
HASSALL, Ellesmere, Shropshire ALL
HAYWARD, Shropshire ALL
HIGGINSON, Ellesmere, Shropshire ALL
HUDSON, Ellesmere, Shropshire (tailors)
HUGHES, Oswestry, Shropshire & Hastings, Sussex (solicitor)
JOHNSON, Oswestry, Shropshire (farmers)
JONES, Marford & Hosely, near Gresford, Denbighshire
JONES, Llantysilio, Wrexham, Denbighshire
JONES, Annie Louisa & Evan, Rhosesmor/Coed-y-cra/Halkyn, possibly Northop
also for baptisms & marriage records - Annie Louisa Jones, nee Parry
1866-1919, Evan Jones 1866-1932. buried at Halkyn.
LEWIS Llansantffraid-y-mechain, Denbighshire, or is it Montgomery, ha?
LLOYD, Gresford, Denbighshire
MASON, Ellesmere, Shropshire
MORGAN, Ellesmere, Shropshire
MORRIS, William Tannatt, & William Harold Tannatt,
Whittington/Sweeney/Oswestry, Shropshire, also Maestanyglwyden
Farm Denbighshire where I have brand new living relatives!
MINSHALL, Oswestry, Shropshire
MULLINEX, Ellesmere, Shropshire - also variations of that name.
PARRY, Ellesmere, Shropshire
PARRY, Rhosesmor/Caerfallwch/Halkyn/Northop Flintshire
PATE/PEAT/PEATE, Pool Quay, Llanymynech, also at Alberbury, Oswestry,
Maesbury, Morda in Shropshire. Pate & Peate in Gresford, Chirk and Wrexham
in 1700s. Also recently found at Montford and Shrewsbury 1700s.
POYNTON, Wrexham, Denbighshire, also Liverpool from 1890, possibly also
Cheshire after 1910.
PRICE, Gresford from 1850s & Erbistock Denbighshire from 1824, Ellesmere
Shropshire from 1700s, Penley Flintshire from 1830s
PUGH, Oswestry, Shropshire only
REEVES, Shropshire
ROBERTS, Llanelidan and Llantysilio Denbighshire
RODENHURST, Shropshire
ROGERS, Buttington & Welshpool, MGY 1799-1881, moved to Wrexham DEN;
Thomas, occupation weaver, said to have gone to Canada circa 1890.
STANLEY, Warrington, Lancs
TAYLOR, Warrington, Golborne, Lowton, in Lancs
TEMPLE, Aberlady, Midlothian, Scotland
THOMAS, Gresford, Denbighshire, possibly Wrexham also.
WARBURTON, Ellesmere, Shropshire
WARD, Llanyblodwell, Montgomeryshire
WHETTALL, Forden, Montgomeryshire 1720+
Also, possibly Davies, descended down from Rogers of Wrexham, "hiding"
somewhere in Johnstown below WREXHAM.
London area, mainly Westminster and Chelsea: BENNETT, MARKS, MAQUIRE,
HANSON, CLEARER, SLADE.
I'm all puffed out now! And to think I originally started only with Price,
Rogers, Peate, Jones and Bennett! What a long and winding, and wonderful
journey this has been. I can only hope that all other listers are so fortunate.
Cheerio
Graham
Melbourne, Australia
P.S. Here's "As time goes by."
You must remember this
a kiss is still a kiss
of that you can't deny
the fundamental things apply
as time goes by
moonlight and love songs
never out of date
hearts full of passion
jealousy and hate
woman needs man
and man must have his mate
that no one can deny!
Not sure if I got it completely right but isn't this the very bottom line
of things that we sometimes miss when we are researching? Our ancestors
were not mere figures in time, they were living people with all the
goodness, faults and imperfections that we see today, and some of them,
well... how they must have loved! I guess this is why I, and most other
researchers, seek to flesh out the bones and try to find out more about
them, even if it means delving into court records, etc. But, really, wills
do reveal a lot. Alhough, I would never pass on in print anything that
appears to be very naughty. Better to leave that where it is, in the past,
though some chuckles arise from reading these things, e.g. one daughter
given all the crockery and silver in a will, then in a codicil it is taken
away (mother probably didn't like the boy she was going with at the time)
and then in years to come, in another codicil it is all given back!
Passions! Yes, plenty of them. It all helps to round out our ancestors
character for us.