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From: "Hugh Watkins" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] HEWSON/WILLIAMS Marriage & death record
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:26:50 +0100
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this one is the farmer
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=8979&iid=MONHO107_747_748-0314&fn=William&ln=Farr&st=d&ssrc=&pid=8310795
William Farr abt 1777 Monmouthshire, Wales Ragland, Monmouthshire

a publican is slightly lower in the class system

Hugh W


On 07/02/2008, Hugh Watkins <> wrote:
> 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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