Kelli,
In the 1851 Census for Newtown, Montgomeryshire (CD pub. by Powys FHS),
there is an area (street?) near Park Street called "Lower Green", listing
approx. 18 separate households with that address. (There is also "Upper
Green", "Lower Yard Green" and "Frollick Green" in Newtown.)
There is no
place in Newtown called anything like "Penchiner" or Pinchiner
There is an EDWARDS couple living at Lower Green, but too old to be the
parents of your Sara and John -- note the elder John EDWARDS is a
"pensioner" -- a coincidence that it sounds like "Pinchiner"? :-)
EDWARDS John h m 68 Chelsea out-pensioner MGY Llanidloes Lower Green
/f197/p30
EDWARDS Mary Ann w m 64 Wife St Martins W. Indies Lower Green /f197/p30
BENBOW Mary ld w 78 Pauper, fly farmer MGY Llanidloes Lower Green /f197/p30
What exactly is the context of the entry in the family bible? There are no
coal mines in Montgomeryshire -- do you know where they were supposed to
have worked at coal mines in Wales? Did they move to Glamorgan?
It's not impossible that the parents of Sara and John may have come to live
at Lower Green, either with the couple above, who may have been the father's
parents, or elsewhere at Lower Green by the time John was born. Do you have
John's date (month) of birth in 1851? The census was taken Sunday, March
30th, 1851.
Did the family still live in Wales in 1881? Do you have them on the 1881
Census? Who did Sara marry?
More details might be able to turn up the right couple.
Regards,
Julie Preston
juliepreston(a)ameritech.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelli Aebig" <kaebig(a)voyager.net>
To: <WLS-MONTGOMERYSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: Penchiner, Lower Green
There is no Newton in Montgomeryshire. It may be Newtown but neither
Pinchiner nor Lower Green appear under Newtown in the Postal Address
File.
Thanks Dick,
It is indeed Newtown, not Newton, and Pinchiner might be Pe nchiner.
Is it possible there used to be such a place? My info comes from a
family Bible. Sara Edwards was b. 1852.