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From: Anthony Francis <>
Subject: RE: [POWYS] Trefeglwys: one parish study
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:12:48 -0800
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Hi Angie,
Thank you very much for this reference to Dorset OPC.
My grandmother's mother, Maria Loader was such a mystery for years & years
until a bunch of extremely kind people on the Powys list declared war on my
'brick wall'. Not only was she found, but also her marriage and her
parents. Thomas Loader age 44 in 1871 census, a labourer living on Northey
Street on the wharf between the Limehouse Basin and the river Thames at the
foot of the Regent's canal in east London, seemed to have been born about
1827 in Spelsbury, Dorset - which turns out to have been the timy hamlet of
Spetisbury.
Your reference to 'Dorset Online Parish Council' has just put me in touch
with the Coordinator of Dorset OPC, who tells me that there were at least
two Thomas Loaders born in 1827, in the hamlets of Moor Crichel and
Melcombe Regis and she has guided me to the Dorset OPC member for Moor
Crichel, which is right next door to Spetisbury, and who is getting back to
me with any info she can find about my ancestor. This is all in a matter of
days, not years! It appears that LOADER/LODER is a Dorset name, origins as
yet unknown.
What a wonderful idea - a coordinated service using people with detailed
local knowledge.
It would be like having Alyson as a Powys OPC member representing
Trefeglwys and other members representing other parishes, say like Stephen
Benham & Nigel Callaghan for Llangynfelyn ay http://www.llangynfelyn.org/
I found that they don't have a parish map of these ancient communities and
even Ordinance Survey don't know where Melcombe Regis is. Luckily I
remembered some kind soul on here saying recently that it was Weymouth -
and there it is just north of the town centre. What a great list of helpful
folk we have in Powys! - always sharing specialized info with everyone else.
You just never know when those little bits of information will come in handy.
Many thanks, Tony in White Rock, BC

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>Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:19:17 +0000
>From: Angela Jones <>
>Subject: RE: [POWYS] Trefeglwys: one parish study
>X-Mailing-List: <> archive/latest/16479
>Hi Alison,
>This sounds like a wonderful idea - I have toyed with the idea of doing one
>for the parish of Colva in Radnorshire for a long time - maybe your idea
>will add impetus to it!
>I think that somewhere on the internet there is an 'online parish clerk'
>site - I visited http://www.dorset-opc.com/#OPC and found out that there are
>on line parish clerks for Cornwall, Sussex, Devon, Wiltshire, Lancashire and
>Kent with more planning to get started in other counties. The Dorest clerk
>gave some info -
>An Online Parish Clerk (OPC) researches all the available historical data
>they can find on a parish, records are transcribed, and in order to promote
>further private research, are made FREELY available to any researcher. This
>will include census, parish transcripts, bishop's transcripts and
>churchwardens accounts, overseers accounts, land tax records, postal
>directory extracts, church & village histories, etc. An OPC is a volunteer
>and should not be confused with the civil Parish Clerk appointed by a Parish
>Council.
>Sounds a great idea to me - maybe those interested in adopting pasishes in
>Powys could get together cyber wise and talk it through!
>Angie



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