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From: "Dale Lewis" <>
Subject: Re: [Bla'Gwent] William Jayne b. Mamhilad c.1784
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 19:46:53 +0100
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Hi Doris
Aside from the Jayne family issue, I wonder what sort of work a man said to
be a Labourer would do in the 1851 census. That is what Amelia Jayne's
father-in-law, David Lewis was. Amelia's father, William, was a sawyer, as
was his eldest son John. The next son, Alexander, was a Fireman. They give
most occupations, and often say if he was a Farm Labourer. I suspect he may
have been either connected the iron, or the tram road industry.
Any thoughts?
Dale
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Subject: Re: [Bla'Gwent] William Jayne b. Mamhilad c.1784
> Hi Dale, I'll do that this afternoon. So far I've never found any
Lewis's
> in my family. One
> of Cordell's books is about Blaenavon and the other is about efforts to
build
> a canal. I kept seeing the word (under occupation) in the census
"navvy."
> Asking what it meant, it had to do with men trying to dig canals and then
> progressed to any digger.
>
> My great greats were married in Ebenezer Chapel about 1787. It is near
all
> these mining comunities, Blaenavn, Brynmawr, etc.
>
> Doris
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