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From: "Hugh Watkins" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] James Nelmes
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:19:18 +0100
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the LMS existed 1923 to 1948
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%2C_Midland_and_Scottish_Railway

better see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_and_North_Western_Railway

"Central Wales Extension Railway" is mentioned

so explore
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Central+Wales+Extension+Railway%22&btnG=Google+Search

http://history.powys.org.uk/school1/builth/bilroad.shtml

enoy

Hugh W

2008/6/10 Elvery Chambers <>:
> 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
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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