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From: "Markie" <>
Subject: FARRANT, Albert - c. 1894 - Ebbw Vale/Monmouth
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 21:08:00 -0700


Dear Listers,
I very much hope you can help me get over a brick wall with respect to making a link for my friends family history. Unfortunately he knows very little about his background and we are hoping for a spark of crucial information to set us in the right direction.

Peter Haydn FARRANT was born in 28th April 1929 ,we believe in Pembroke Dock, or surrounds. He married a Dorothy SILINCE.

We have now discovered further information regarding Peters' parents and siblings. His father was an Albert FARRANT who married a Martha ELLINS. We also know that Albert and Martha had 8 children. Albert, Peter, George, Michael, Toni, Sheila, Nancy and Gwendoline (died aged 21).

By reasonable extrapolation it seems likely that Albert FARRANT would have been born somewhere between 1892 and 1905 and therefore married sometime between 1912 and 1925. It was always thought that he was born in the Pembroke Dock area but there is no evidence for this - certainly all or most of his children were born there.

The only reference to an Albert FARRANT I can find on the 1901 census is below with the rest of his family in Ebbw Vale... but born in Monmouth:

Mary Farrant 2 Monmouth Cwm Monmouth Ebbwvale
Albert Farrant 7 Monmouth Cwm Monmouth Ebbwvale
Betrice Farrant 10 Monmouth Cwm Monmouth Ebbwvale
Cienwon Farrant 12 Monmouth Cwm Monmouth Ebbwvale
Maria Farrant 14 Monmouth Cwm Monmouth Ebbwvale
George Farrant 20 Monmouth Cwm Monmouth Ebbwvale Coal Hewer
Henry Farrant 23 Monmouth Cwm Monmouth Ebbwvale Coal Hewer

Job Farrant 48 England N K Monmouth Ebbwvale Coal Hewer
John Farrant 21 Monmouth Cwm Monmouth Ebbwvale Coal Hewer
Sarah Farrant 23 Monmouth Cwm Monmouth Ebbwvale

The birth year of this Albert (c. 1894) corresponds with the range that my friends garndfather, Albert FARRANT, would have been born in. I know it is a longshot but if anyone is researching these FARRANTs or can help me in anyway make the link to my FARRANTs in Pembroke Dock I would be very grateful. I know Monmouth is someway from Pembroke but people did travel and there does not appear to be strong FARRANT history in Pembrokeshire - so it is at least possible??

Many Thanks
Mark Kirby


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