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From: "John Davies" <>
Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] Davies in Merthyr Tydfil
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 21:32:02 +0100
References: <000501c0d092$73c3fa80$bfa57ad5@366p>


Hi Pauline, I did make a mistake and that David Davies was in fact a
labourer in a coal mine in the 1881 census. Thanks for the work you have
completed up to now. Hope you have better luck in your next search.
John.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pauline James" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] Davies in Merthyr Tydfil


> Hi Pat and John
>
> It's okay, I do have 1891 census of Merthyr Tydvil, just though if you had
> it, two of us looking is better than one.
>
> I'll have a more thorough look tomorrow, there are so many David Davies
> there, and if he changed his age from census to census he could be
> anywhere....
>
> Pauline
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Powell <>
> To: <>
> Date: 28 April 2001 19:45
> Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] Davies in Merthyr Tydfil
>
>
> >HI Pauline _ and John
> >
> >Sorry I don't have Merthyr Tydfil 1891 - I only have glam 1851 and 1841
> >and the UK 1881.
> >I have occasionally looked up Merthyr 1891 for others in my local
> >reference library when I was searching it for my own links.
> >I can keep a note for the next time I am "wandering through" merthyr in
> >1891 - but have no idea when that is likely to be.
> >
> >
> >Sorry
> >
> >Pat
> >
> >
> >
> >In message <008501c0d000$fb3e10a0$>, Pauline James
> ><> writes
> >>Hi John
> >>
> >>Thanks for joining the list, I'm now asking if Pat can assist
> >>
> >> - message for Pat
> >>
> >>Pat, do you have 1891 census for Merthyr Tydvil - I could not locate the
> >>right ones, but as we know being named David Davies does not help......
> >>
> >>Although John states that David Davies was a puddler in 1881 the one I
> have
> >>from 237 Pendarren Road states that he was a labourer in a
> >>coalmine........different occupations altogether...
> >>
> >>Let me know if you have this census, if not I'll see if I can locate the
> >>correct ones this time, the nearest I had with named children was a
widow
> >>named Elizabeth - could not find a match with David Davies .....but then
> >>perhaps I was having a bad day.
> >>
> >>thanks Pauline
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: John Davies <>
> >>To: <>
> >>Date: 27 April 2001 23:08
> >>Subject: [Cmn-L] Davies in Merthyr Tydfil
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi, I am trying to obtain information about my ggrandfather David
Davies.
> >>He was born in Kidwelly 23 June 1842 but he is listed as being 36 in
1881
> >>and, as he could not read or write, i believe this may be a mistake. His
> >>wife Elizabeth is also shown as aged 36 but she was born in Pater
> (Pembroke
> >>Dock) in 4th Quarter 1844. She also could not read or write. According
to
> >>the 1881 census he is the only one to fit the data i have. He (David and
> >>family) resided at 237 Penydarren Road Merthyr Tydfil in the 1881
census.
> He
> >>married Elizabeth Isitt in March 1865 at the Zion church in Twwynyrodyn
> M.T.
> >>The children from the marriage were, in the 1881 census), Elizabeth Ann
> aged
> >>13; John aged 11 (my grandfather); David aged 9 and Catherine aged 7. I
> am
> >>positive that this is the family because we knew my grandfather John was
> >>born in MT in 1870 between dec 1869 and june 1870; his birth cert shows
> him
> >>as being born 23 Feb 1870. David was alive in 1900 bacause he attended
my
> >>grandfathers w!
> >>>edding in June at Vaynor church. David was a puddler in 1881 and in
June
> >>1900 my grandfathers wedding cert shows David to be a 'Roller'. Could
> anyone
> >>please try and locate this family, in MT in the 1891 census, i believe
> that
> >>237 Penydarren road did not exist in 1891.
> >>>Many thanks for any help.
> >>>John
> >>>
> >>>
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