Tag: Gregory
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More than a musical footnote
Joe Gregory, popular accordionist, band leader
Joe Gregory, popular accordionist, band leader Joe Gregory’s name crops up online from time to time, usually as a mention in the history of “the oldest record shop” Spillers Records in Cardiff. An album launch by big name rock band The Pixies at the shop got it (and Joe) page 3 attention in The Guardian (14th September print edition) {1}. There’s not much on the web about Joe, accordionist and band leader originally from Bush Houses, Tonypandy and a first cousin twice removed, so here’s » »
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An array of Osbornes
Knocking down a wall to see the wider picture
Knocking down a wall to see the wider picture [toc heading_levels=”2,3,4″] Up until the beginning of this month (April 2016), two of great grandmother Amelia Osborne’s siblings had proved elusive, despite looking for several years. The brick wall has well and truly been smashed through thanks to third cousin Alan Croad, for one of the two at least. Elizabeth Osborne, the middle child of the family, married Fred Tucker in Neath district, rather than the expected Pontypridd, in 1899. With this cracked, it is easy to » »
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The interconnectedness of Tonypandy Osbornes
Another illustration of how inter-connected the Osborne family was/is in the Tonypandy area emerged recently. For Matilda Osborne, born about 1884 in Misterton to Levi (brother of 2x great grandfather William) and wife Elizabeth, the finished 1911 census records on Ancestry had been awaited to put more flesh on her husband and their children. Annoyingly it is still not clear whether his name is Edwin or Edward Sheldon, but it seems likely that he went by Edward in life, but was born and died as Edwin. » »
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A community in the Bush
… is worth two in Malvern. Or some other bad variation on the saying – any better suggestions? This is the second article featuring the ‘street’ known as Bush Houses, this time trying to give an idea of how it featured in the the lives of the families who had moved from south Somerset to the south Wales valleys of the Rhondda. See the previous post for the physical history of the place. While some of the men had previously been working in the mines in » »