Category: Rhondda
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Blaengwynfi and beyond Osbornes spreading out in the valleys
A guest article from Alan Croad {1}. A number of factors may explain the movement of the wider Osborne family between Clydach Vale, Blaengwynfi and Tonyrefail. {2} Developing the pits An important entrepreneur William Perch 1831-1891 of Perch & Co. opened mines in the Rhondda Valley, including one at Clydach Vale in 1847 and later…
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The 1939 Bush Houses bulletin A dwindling, but similar, population
Having coughed up for a Findmypast annual sub to access the 1939 Register details {4}, it is time for Cutlock & Co to do its usual job, as per earlier censuses, transcribing the whole information for Bush Houses {see notes 1, 2}. The Cutlock Transcription Information on all households is shown on the Bush Houses…
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An array of Osbornes 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…
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Calling Clare Harris!
Cutlock & Co received your message earlier today, on the old Bush House church – the tin shed. Thanks! However it looks like there was an error in your email address, so the reply bounced. Did you spot the small black and white photo of ‘Bush Chapel’ at the bottom of the Bush Houses viewpoints…
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Remembering the price of coal
Sunday 17th May is the 50th anniversary of the last deep coal mining disaster in South Wales, at Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale. Rob Osborne, a third cousin once removed, grew up close to where the mine had been. He reports for ITV News Wales in ‘Remembering the Cambrian Colliery disaster 50 years on‘ – old…
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Putting all the Levis in order Another tale of Welsh miners in America
The idea of one, or more, Watkins ancestors being born in America was tackled a while back, in ‘Cracking a family myth‘. Now another possible source of the tale has emerged, through a family tree on Ancestry. The original story as recounted by cousin Islwyn was about the father of John Watkins, namely my 2x…