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An important development for all North Wales family historians. This message
is forwarded from Vic and Dafydd the web-masters for the North Wales BMD
project.
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We are pleased to announce that the North Wales Births, Marriages and
Deaths website ("North Wales BMD") is now online. The website is
bilingual, and the URLs are:
www.northwalesbmd.org.uk and/or www.gpmgogleddcymru.org.uk
This is a very small start, with just a small number of indexes from
six of our register offices being available. Many more indexes from
these register offices will be added during the coming weeks and
months; and it is hoped that all the indexes of every register office
in North Wales, from 1837 to 1950, will be included eventually.
We are very grateful to the developers of the CheshireBMD website, who
have been so generous in making their software available, free of
charge, and in helping to set up our North Wales BMD website.
The North Wales BMD website follows the "house style" established by
Cheshire BMD, and subsequently followed by Yorkshire BMD, Lancashire
BMD and Staffordshire BMD - so, if you are familiar with any of those
websites, you have a flying start with North Wales BMD!
In England and Wales, the Civil Registration system for recording
births, marriages, and deaths began on 1st July 1837. The original
registers in which the events were recorded are still held in the
strong-rooms of our local Register Offices. Members of the public are
not allowed to see these registers, by law.
For some time now, Clwyd and Gwynedd Family History Societies,
together with Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, have been working
closely with some of our local Register Offices to make the indexes to
the registers searchable via the Internet. We would like to thank the
team of volunteers (many of whom are members of this list). Without
their dedication, enthusiasm, and many hours of hard work, this
project would never have been possible.
Over the 166 years since the start of civil registration, there have
been many changes in the local registration districts, the areas they
cover, and even their names. Whenever there has been a
re-organisation and/or a change of boundaries, the Superintendent
Registrars have tried, as far as possible, to re-locate the registers
and their corresponding indexes to the appropriate Register Offices.
It is important to understand that they have always moved them as
complete sets of sub-districts - in other words, the registers for a
given sub-district have never been "split". This sometimes has
unexpected consequences; when the births and deaths registers for a
particular sub-district are not where you might logically expect them
to be!
North Wales BMD has been specifically designed to operate at
sub-district level; which means that results of searches always show
the register office where the register is held *today*. This, of
course, is the register office which will supply a copy of the entry,
on receipt of the appropriate fee.
We will post a message to the list every time the database is updated
- so - "watch this space" !
This is a good day for "internet researchers" in our area, with North
Wales BMD and Free Census both going online on the same day!
Our congratulations to Natalia and her "Free Census" volunteers!
Vic Roberts
webmaster(a)northwalesbmd.org.uk
Dafydd Hayes
gwefeistr(a)northwalesbmd.org.
In a message dated 04/08/2003 02:32:24 GMT Daylight Time, aspenlea(a)uq.net.au
writes:
>
> Reposting interests: (1700-late 1800's)
>
> PARRY - Llanfechell/Penmon/Beaumaris
> WILLIAMS - Llanfechell
> HUGHES - Holyhead/Penmon/Beaumaris
> WATKIN - Holyhead
>
> Lizzie
> Brisbane, Australia
>
Hello Lizzie,
Posting a list of surnames works well on most lists, I will often write a
similar letter to the Shropshire Rootsweb list and get valuable results.
Unfortunately such letters are of little value on the lists for north and west Wales
as many of the native families have only used surnames for 5 or 6 generations,
so there will be a lot of Hughes, Williams and Parry families in Anglesey who
are totally unrelated to each other (Watkins is much rarer).
It would be much more useful if you told us a bit about the people you are
researching - what were their full names and BMD dates? Do you have an address
that they used in Holyhead, Penmon, etc.? What work did they do? Have you found
them on a census return or in a parish register?
If you have a Family History records programme on your computer you may be
able to use it to produce a report for a couple of generations which can be
edited into an e-mail which put a bit of meat onto the bones.
Regards
Alwyn
List Administrator
Hoping to find any information about Robert and Catherine (Owens) Jones Prendre Rhosneiger who left May, 1850 and came to Floyd, NY. Robert was from Aberffraw and Catherine from Llanfaelog.
They brought 7 children:
Ann b. 1826 (married George Perry and James Evans) lived in Rome, NY
William b. 1827 Penydref ( Brynddu, Llanfaelog, Film No 3793 pg in WM627; 86)
John R Jones b. 1830 Pendref ( Brynddu, Llanfaelog, Film No 3793 pg in WM627; 86) married and had family in Auburn, California
Elizabeth Jones b. 1832 Pendref ( Brynddu, Llanfaelog, Film No 3793 pg in WM627; 86) married Elias J Roberts and lived in Rome, NY
Owen R Jones b. 1834 Pendre ( Brynddu, Llanfaelog, Film No 3793 pg in WM627; 86) married Ann Jones and Mary Jane Davis and lived in Auburn, California
Margaret Jones b. 1836
Ellen Ann Jones b. August 17, 1839 (married Hugh R Jones b. 1829 from Llun, Carnarvonshire in NY and lived in Utica, NY ) my gggrandparents
Best,
Lisa Judd
El Sobrante, California
Just a reminder to members of Gwynedd FHS that the deadline for articles for inclusion in the journal is 31st August. I'm sure there are many of you with wonderful tales to tell, so put pen to paper and lets get those stories into print. Look forward to receiving more items (plus photos if possible). The 'Spotlight' will be on Pwllheli for this issue and the April issue will be Blaenau Ffestiniog. If any of you have items of interest on Blaenau which you'd like included, consult with either Myfyr Hughes or Ieuan Tomos to make sure items are not duplicated.
Yvonne
Gwynedd FHS
This message was sent to the wrong address, so I am forwarding it to the
list. Please reply to Jeff or the list and not to me. - Alwyn
Subj: Roberts
Date: 03/08/2003 12:34:19 GMT Daylight Time
From: pateena(a)iprimus.com.au
To: WLS-ANGLESEY-L-request(a)rootsweb.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)
Hello
Looking for help with a family
father Robert Roberts born Llangefni 1830-1840
mother Ann Roberts born Llanllibio 1830
son Hugh Roberts born Llangefni 1868
son David Roberts born Llangefni 1870
dau; Elizabeth Roberts born Llangefni 1879
Thank you Jeff
I would be most grateful for any information about a Catherine Isaac born 1743, who married a John Roberts of Llanbedrgoch. They lived at Plas Bach, Llanbedrgoch, and she died in January 1828.
I would be grateful for any information about Richard Hughes who married Ann or Jane Lloyd at Llanallgo on 9 December 1744. He was a widower, so I would be interested to know who was his first wife.
In 1744 when his son John Pritchard was christened he lived at Greiglas, Llanallgo, and in 1746 he was a miller living at Traeth Bychan.
I would be grateful for any information about a William Hughes who on 23 September 1763 married Margaret Jones of Cefnddwyffrwd, Penrhoslligwy. He was said to be of Bodewryd. Margaret was the widow of Richard Williams, the previous tenant of Cefnddwyffrwd.
Margaret died in November 1769, and was buried at Penrhoslligwy, so on 23 February 1770 William married Elizabeth Parry, singlewoman, at Penrhoslligwy.
Their children included Owen (1773), John (1775), John (1778), Owen (1783), Margaret (1787), Hugh (1788), and my ancestor Ellen (1791). William still farmed Cefnddwyffrwd in 1797, but was no longer there in 1805. I have checked the Penrhoslligwy Memorial Inscriptions and the Parish Registers, both published by Gwynedd Family History Society, but they don't have any mention of his burial, so I would be grateful to know where he was buried, as well as when he was born.
I would be grateful for any information about Owen Jones who was christened at Llannerchymedd CM church in 1823, the son of Owen Jones, shoemaker, and his wife Gwen.
In 1851 Owen was a blacksmith living at 10 Mill Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, and was married to Margaret, originally of Nannerch, Flintshire. I have not found their marriage, and would be grateful for this information.
In 1861 they lived at 45 Bedford Street, Toxteth Park, and he was still a blacksmith, but in 1862 they had moved to the White Horse inn, and Owen was the tenant from 1862 to 1869, paying 5/- Land Tax, but in 1870 a John Jones is the tenant, almost certainly not Owen's son, as Owen's son John was born in 1857, and would therefore be only 13 years old.
In 1871 Owen does not appear on the census, but his wife appears at Penrhos, Pentraeth, and is described as blacksmith's wife, and has a 7 month old daughter Martha E Jones. The implication is that Owen was still alive, but where was he?