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From: "Hugh Watkins" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] HEWSON/WILLIAMS Marriage & death record
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:23:36 +0100
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http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=8861&path=Monmouthshire.Trevethin.ALL.2c.2&fn=William&ln=Farr&st=r&pid=16719194&rc=&zp=100

Innkeeper and dealer in Pigs? 1851
Publican 1841



NB use spelling Ragland 1841 1851 or Raglan* in census

William Farr, Yeoman - ref. LL/1857/223 - date: 1857

Contents
Will. Miscellaneous.
Diocese: Llandaf
Parish: Rhaglan
County: Monmouthshire

in the National Library of Wales with all the archives oif the Bishop
of Llandaff

http://www.llgc.org.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llandaff_Cathedral


http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info/

Yeoman 5 # A farmer who cultivates his own land, especially a member
of a former class of small freeholders


yeoman (yō'mən) , class in English society. The term has always been
ill-defined, but generally it means a freeholder of a lower status
than gentleman who cultivates his own land. With the breakdown of
medieval systems of tenure the numbers of this class increased and
formed the basis for a rural middle class.

Certain retainers of a fairly high rank in noble households were also
called yeomen, and thus the name was given to specific branches of the
royal household, e.g., Yeomen of the Horse or Yeomen of the Guard. The
yeoman foot soldiers of the Hundred Years War were the troops most
personally in the service of the king. The more modern military use of
the term dates from the 18th cent., when voluntary cavalry units
called the yeomanry were used to suppress riots. From 1794 they were
organized into regiments. Their service in the South African War
(1899–1902) earned them the name Imperial Yeomanry, and in 1907 they
became a part of the Territorial Army.


Hugh W




On 07/02/2008, Jan James <> wrote:
> I received a reference to the will of William Farr LL1857/223 Rhaglan
> from National Archives and I don't know what it all means- Jan Western
> Australia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Hugh Watkins
> Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2008 5:17 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [MON] HEWSON/WILLIAMS Marriage & death record
>
> it depends on date and the jurisdiction
> before or after 1858
> most are not on line
>
> Hugh W
>
> On 07/02/2008, Jan James <> wrote:
> > Can anyone help please. Where do I find wills for Monmouth or Raglan
> on
> > line- Jan Western Australia
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > [mailto:] On Behalf Of Ray Lewis
> > Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2008 2:16 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [MON] HEWSON/WILLIAMS Marriage & death record
> >
> > G'day Dick
> >
> > Have you considered that yur ggparents may not have married? It could
> be
> >
> > that either one or both could have had an encumbrance (real or
> imagined)
> >
> > which prevented them from marriage. There are, as yet, no marriages
> > shown for them on FreeBMD although the transcriptions are reasonably
> > complete, FreeBMD gives no guarantee that they ever will be because of
> > the very nature of the system. You will have tried the surname
> > combination search, with or without the various forenames, I am sure.
> > This worked vey well for one of my colleagues just yesterday when she
> > found one of her ggrandparents second marriage in Middlesex when she
> had
> >
> > always thought that he had not married again. She had not realised
> that
> > you could do searches using just one person's given and their two
> > surnames.
> >
> > As for a will, it may not have been necessary. After all, wills cost
> > money to administer and your ggparents may have decided that they did
> > not want to give money to solicitors and/or trustees. They might have
> > distributed their family belongings in such a way as to preclude the
> > necessity for a will. There is a death for a Mary Hewson, aged 45, at
> > Newport, M for September Quarter 1897 (11a/100) on FreeBMD but
> nothing
> >
> > for FHH or WFHH or combination of those names, so far anywhere on
> > FreeBMD between 1890 and 1910.
> >
> > Sorry not to be of much help, but it could be that someone else on the
> > list has better news.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ray Lewis
> > Hazelmere Western Australia
> >
> > Richard Fowler wrote:<snipped>
> >
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