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From: "Elvery Chambers" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] James Nelmes
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:51:21 +0800
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Thanks for this information. I will try to get hold of the book you
mentioned here in Australia.
Regarding the "farmer" occupation in 1881 I've been told that the family had
a 10 acre holding up on Llanwenarth Breast but that James was often away as
he drove clapped out trains to Crewe for demolition for the LMS & his wife
was mostly responsible for the running of the "farm".
Thanks again
Elvery



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From: "Hugh Watkins" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [MON] James Nelmes


you need


Was Your Grandfather a Railwayman? (Fourth Edition)
by Tom Richards

Category: Family history
Format: Paperback


Publisher: Federation of Family History Societies
ISBN: 1860061613
Only £5.56
Was £6.95
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/bookshop/details.aspx?titleId=258




This expanded edition of the guide includes a comprehensive listing of
records and documents for railway companies in Great Britain and
overseas, showing what information they contain and where they can be
found. There is also a detailed introduction to the railways and the
records they generated, a guide to ordering records at the National
Archives, and details of railway memorials in the UK and Ireland.

Author: Tom Richards joined the Great Western Railway in 1940 as a lad
clerk and was a senior officer of British Rail Western Region on his
retirement, 42 years later.


are you certain about the farrner?

career pattern >> age 12 to 14 start as cleaner and fire lighter at the
sheds
>> fireman >> driver

with in the last two
first shunting engines >> then goods trains >> local / branch line
passenger trains >> express trains >> creme de la creme The Royal
Train

often sleeping away from home after longer trips

my own gg uncle born Bath or Pitchcombe
worked Gloucester (4 mile walk) >> Vale of Neath marreid in Glamorgan
>> SwindonWiltshire

employers Vale of Neath Railway Co bought by GWR
alive in 1901 but I have not looked for pension records

coal trains out of Wales were big business

enjoy

Hugh W

2008/6/10 Elvery Chambers <>:
> Some kind person was able to help me find my Price family in 1901 in
> Aberdare so I am hoping for the same result for my greatgrandfather James
> Nelmes. He was born in Lyonshall Hereford in 1843 & still living there in
> 1861. He was married in 1876 in Abergavenny to an Emma Jones & his
> occupation was fireman. In 1878 he is the informant on his mother's death
> certificate in Lyonshall & was living at Leuyn Dee (presume Llywndu)
> Abergavenny. I have him in 1881 (farmer) at Llanwenarth & in 1891 & 1901
> in Tredegar as loco engine driver. So far I haven't been able to find him
> in 1871 which is a crucial time.
> Please can anyone help?
> Thanks Elvery
> Perth West Australia
>
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