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Post by annedw on Aug 11, 2009 19:09:26 GMT
Trying again with my Taid and his brother Uncle John , Taid on the right ( Price Hughes) Attachments:
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Post by annedw on Aug 10, 2009 19:29:19 GMT
I haven`heard of them at all. www.mineraquarry.org.uk/index.htmLooks like Peter Appleton is involved. MINERA QUARRY TRUST. PETER APPLETON ( Date: 04/06/2009 Page Last Updated: 09/06/2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter gave the club an in-depth overview of the history, geology, flora & fauna of the Minera limestone quarry and the future aims of the Trust. The quarry and the adjacent lead mining activities go back 100's of years and have waxed and waned along with the local industrial conditions. There are plans to open a visitor centre featuring the extensive natural cave system, the SSSI and the industrial history of the quarry - subject to agreement with the quarry owner and securing funding. A most interesting and illuminating talk.Shame we just missed this, a nice day out. Search Minera www.geosupplies.co.uk/pdfs/DayFieldTrips2009.pdf
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Post by annedw on Aug 10, 2009 12:42:32 GMT
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Post by annedw on Aug 10, 2009 7:44:51 GMT
Toms pic of Bethesda has mysteriously appeared. current time 8.40 Monday morning, just in case it goes again. Also Rehoboth to Coedpoeth have popped up. I wonder why this is happening.
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Post by annedw on Aug 9, 2009 21:44:05 GMT
I managed this using PhotoBucket, but it`s so complicated ( for me anyway) but at least it worked.
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Post by annedw on Aug 9, 2009 17:52:28 GMT
I did see it after I turned off my `pop up blocker` but the thing is that it would be nice to have it actually on the page without all the messing about. I can`t understand why some pics have done this and others havn`t. The ones I put on the Locations section went like a dream, so what`s the difference now.
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Post by annedw on Aug 9, 2009 15:11:33 GMT
But why are some uploading and are visible when others are not. All from the same source and PC. I HATE computers. and things I don`t understand.
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Post by annedw on Aug 9, 2009 9:26:16 GMT
I added the Salem ones with no problem, but Rehoboth just won`t work, very irritating. I know if you have a pop up blocker then the file might not open, and you have to turn it off, but I want to see the pics on the page right away. I have just tried again , and still got the ` download file` but then when I tried again to open it I got a message telling me I do not have a valid download session.
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Post by annedw on Aug 9, 2009 8:50:15 GMT
I struggled getting the size small enough, the Machine house one was so big it you could only see one corner at first. The only thing that solved it was for me to email it to myself in the smallest size option, save it and then use it for uploadng to the site. Also I am having problems with the photograph actually showing up on the page, sometimes it will , but in others there is just an `attachment` that doesn`t work. Help please any one.
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Post by annedw on Aug 8, 2009 7:36:26 GMT
Hope this works. Attachments:
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Post by annedw on Aug 7, 2009 13:50:59 GMT
Does anyone know the name of a Chapel in Talwrn, where the laying of the foundation stone took place in 1879. It doesn`t look like Bathafarn and I`m not too sure about it being Seion either
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Post by annedw on Aug 5, 2009 22:12:45 GMT
CLAYSON Frances Wrexham WM/019/38 1858 I didn`t look as far as 1875 for Fanny Willco-ck. Odd that William and Elizabeth baptised a son William soon after he was born, but waited three years to baptise Fanny. Presuming they are the same William / Elizabeth. Births Dec 1870 Willco-ck William Wrexham 11b 313 Oh well, these things are sent to try us. This thingythingy thingy thingy is driving me nuts. WOW I am allowed to say NUTS.
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Post by annedw on Aug 4, 2009 20:13:35 GMT
One of the sons, Robert who is buried in Coedpoeth
RG13; Piece: 5219; Folio: 75; Page: 6. 1901 3 Smelt Road Coedpoeth. Robert Roberts 26 coalminer b Minera Hannah Roberts 29 b Plas Gwyn Myfanwy Roberts 2 b Welshpool John Francis Frederick Roberts 7 months b Llanidloes Mont.
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Post by annedw on Aug 4, 2009 14:22:07 GMT
Fanny Gleeson from 1871. living with the Willco-ck family I think she is Frances Clayson born 1858. d/o George and Harriet Clayson.
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Post by annedw on Aug 4, 2009 12:30:16 GMT
I looked for Fanny`s baptism in Wrexham Pr`s and she isn`t there, I went as far as 1874 just to make sure. There were at least two Willco-ck families though as I found the following baptisms. This one looks like the family Eluned has in 1871 16 Oct 1870 William s/o William and Elizabeth Willco-ck, Butcher, Brook St. Aug 23 1872 John William s/o Thomas and Elizabeth Willco-ck, Innkeeper , Town Hill, Wrexham. And these are the family above. This Elizabeth was NOT born Wrexham . I thing you can forget about these. 4 Caradoc Terrace Wrexham All children b Wrexham Thomas Willco-ck 54 innkeeper b Wrexham Elizabeth Willco-ck wife 42 born Redditch. Worcs. Florence Willco-ck 11 dau John Wm. Willco-ck 8 son Arthur Phillip Willco-ck 5 son Bessie Willtco-ck 3 dau Minnie Eleanor Willco-ck dau Emma Wright 19 servant b Overton. I know this doesn`t help with the search for Fanny, and now we have two Elizabeth Willco-cks I think the best way to find her is to get the marriage certificate and see who her father was, and then her birth certificate to find her mother. Or as she is proving so difficult to find just go right to the Birth. If you ask, then usually the register office will check first if her father is named. When you find this, then maybe we can help you take it back from there. Sorry I couldn`t help more
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Post by annedw on Aug 3, 2009 17:15:58 GMT
If you send me your email adress I will send it . Just click on my name - annedw - left of message box and you get a page where you can send me a personal message, then only I will see it.
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Post by annedw on Aug 3, 2009 10:03:51 GMT
Wrexham births index. WILLC-OC-K Fanny Wrexham Wrexham C.B. WM/040/71 1872
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Post by annedw on Aug 1, 2009 21:17:37 GMT
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Post by annedw on Aug 1, 2009 21:13:57 GMT
I`ve reposted this here from the Minera Headstones thread, minerahistory.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=mineragwynfryn&action=display&thread=874&page=1My first post to you. I am looking for any descendants of William Roberts and Harriet Jones who were married at Minera in about 1872 although I suspect that they were Chapelgoers. They moved to Eclusham and then to Coedpoeth.They had 10 children altogether who lived and appear on censuses. For the baptism of Beatrice, the last child, in about 1895 they are living in High Street CoedPoeth.Salem Chapel records Roland,their 9th child, was a policeman around WW2 and then he and his wife Annie kept a fish and chip shop until into 1960's . Their children were Gwen b 1919, Eldred and Heulwen.I am in contact with their family but wondered about any others.My grandmother was Mary Jane [Polly] b 1875. She moved to Manchester when she married. Hope someone can help.Thank you Sue
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Post by annedw on Jul 30, 2009 7:28:47 GMT
St. Mary's Church in Minera , there is a notice on the Church door informing all that a survey is to be made of the MI stones. Any that are in danger of falling may be placed flat down.
Lee Wettons site has photos of headstones.
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Post by annedw on Jul 29, 2009 17:20:08 GMT
1887 May 24 The attendance for today has been very fair being much better than it was yesterday afternoon owing to many of the children being present at a Tea meeting in the Adwy. Were informed this morning that Mr G J Jones, permanent Master of this school has arrived safely in New York after a most perilous voyage. All the school staff very glad that his family had escaped the deaths by shipwreck which was the lot of several of the passengers in the same vessel.
The details below were sent to me by someone else, but of course it need to be checked out. I wonder if there`s a report in the Wrexham Advertiser.
This appears to refer to the collision, in fog, between the White Star steamers Britannic and Celtic on Thursday 19th May 1887, 350 miles from Sandy Hook. Five steerage passengers were killed on the Britannic. Sandy Hook is on Lower New York Bay. The Britannic was east bound at the time. Both ships returned to New York and anchored off Sandy Hook Bar on the Sunday morning, 22nd. May, from where the passengers were taken into New York on tugs. The Celtic sailed for New York from Liverpool on Wednesday 4th May 1887.
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Post by annedw on Jul 25, 2009 15:18:37 GMT
Hi Trina, thanks for reminding us about this site, if you come across any more `goodies` can you post them on the EXTERNAL WEB LINKS`RESOURCE WEB LINKS ` section at the botton of the pages, then they won`t get lost.
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Post by annedw on Jul 24, 2009 14:58:56 GMT
Found a bit more on Mary. (image info is for my benefit) image 107 130 161 167 14th Dec 1877. The present headmistress of Penygelli girls school writes that she is resigning her post and her succesor after the Xmas Break will be Mary Dall, the present mistress of Tabor Hill Infants School. Also Maggie Dall, May`s sister takes her pllce while she is off sick. Therefore Maggie was in the area.
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Post by annedw on Jul 24, 2009 14:39:52 GMT
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Post by annedw on Jul 24, 2009 10:38:51 GMT
I`m doing some work with Penygelli School and came up with this. James was the son of Thomas the stationer,
Mary Dall
Mary was born about 1856 in Slamanan, Stirlingshire. She was the daughter of William C and Margaret Dall, William was employed as a Goods clerk for the Railways. Mary moved to Wales and was engaged as the Schoolmistress at the Penygell Girls School. In the autumn of 1881 she married James Phennah, the son of Thomas and Ellen Phennah who lived in Wrexham. Mary gave up her teaching and in late 1890 she had a daughter Evelyn. James died in 1899 and in 1904 Mary married again to Algernon Snell. Mary died in Cheltenham aged 81 and is buried with her first husband James Phennah in Wrexham cemetery.
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Post by annedw on Jul 21, 2009 11:47:34 GMT
Baptisms from 1789 to 1800 in Wrexham parish. William Price baptized in Wrexham on September 10th 1800 who was born July 2, 1800. His parents are Robert and Frances, Robert is listed as a potter, and this family is from Wrexham Abbot This seems to be the only one that fits the date, but doesn`t really seem to be the right one. Maybe the family were non conformist. There was a James Price a gardener also born Adwy`r Clawdd in the census, also with a son called William. he doesn`t appear in the PRs either.
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Post by annedw on Jul 16, 2009 8:14:25 GMT
Can anyone help me with some photos of the old school. Am I right in thinking that the orignal school is now the Bryn Tabor one. I know there a photo from the early 1900s of the children around and would like to see that and use it for the school project. Send me a PM if you can help. Thanks
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Post by annedw on Jul 13, 2009 19:33:23 GMT
Spelling mistakes how adre you. ;D ;D ;D Seriously though, there were some obvious ones and I didn`t know whether to change them or not. Admitions and I expect there are some of my own doing. You can see that some sentences are very long with no punctuation, the grammar is very odd , but I suppose that`s how they spoke and wrote in those times. The grammar check went into overdrive .
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Post by annedw on Jul 9, 2009 21:52:21 GMT
Hi Alison. I think/ hope I`m right in saying that this is the Lee Wetton image number, `LW 8168 `which would mean there is a headstone on his site. www.clwyd-mi.co.uk/
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Post by annedw on Jul 9, 2009 16:27:56 GMT
Without any more info from you it will be rather difficult.
We don`t know how old he was when he married, his father might be named on the marriage cert which would help, but I would imagine that he would probably have died by them if Thomas was about the same age as Harriet Selina. Do you know when he died and you say it was in Wrexham, how old was he then ? Have you any ideas about where he came from. There are lots of Thomas Morgans about and it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack to find the right one. Have you tried looking for an obituary for him, sorry to sound a bit negative but the latest census we can search for you is 1901, nearly 30 years before the marriage. Can you post any info on the other thread I started for you just for Thomas G Morgan, then we can concentrate on just that part of the family. It makes it easier to keep track of one person . I like easy ;D
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