Have you checked the registers to see if they had another child called
Edward. We have found when doing our family research, that quite often when
a child died they seemed to name another child the same as the one that had
died. Just a thought.
Pam
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From: "JAMES NORRIS" <jamalfnor(a)barclays.net>
To: <WLS-FLINTSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:13 AM
Subject: [FLN] Edward and Elias Jones
I have a great grandfather called Edward Jones, who declared on his
marriage certificate in 1863 that his father was Elias Jones, shoemaker. I
had high hopes of finding Edward and his father at Rhuddlan, but the burial
register of Rhuddlan put paid to that, showing that the Edward born there in
1830 died at the age of 4. The search is difficult because all my mother's
grandparents died before she was born and her mother was not communicative
on the subject.
There is no family lore about Edward, but the 1881 census for St.
Marylebone gives
his age as 50 and his trade as shoemaker and simply says
that he was born in Wales , no county being mentioned. He was a soldier at
the time of his marriage in 1863, but left the army before the birth of my
grandmother Jones in 1866. Another difficulty is that the number of fathers
called Elias Jones with sons called Edward is very small on the IGI. I hope
that what I have written may remind a member of this list of some earlier
research. Thank you.
Jim Norris
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