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Category: Burials

  • Those the “intended” left behind Commemorating the WW1&2 dead

    In the remembrance of those killed in the world wars, it is easy to overlook those left behind whose “intended” never returned. Without a marriage record, how do we even know about the impact of such loss? Family notes indicate that great aunt Edie (Neal, born 1887 Norwich) was one such. She is the one…

  • Cracking a family myth Wales to Wilkes-Barre USA

    Great excitement at Cutlock Towers. Wednesday’s visit to cousin Islwyn in Knighton didn’t just fill in missing details on already known relations but, with just the briefest further research, has now revealed where the tales of Pennsylvania connections came from. These connections had become rather mythical to me, as the idea that a part of…

  • Getting excited by an obituary

    As is quite often the case, a quick tidying up exercise of my Family Tree Maker records this weekend led to some interesting discoveries and a longer research session than planned. Plus the first helpful online British obituary. The extension to the probate calendar on Ancestry (now to 1966, rather than 1941) meant that it…

  • Keen eyes and some groundwork to find the name

    Another selection from the recent Trealaw cemetery trawl. This time they are all related in some way to the Osborne (Somerset) side of the family, but as with my first piece on this (A quick look at family gravestones at Trealaw), they are all different in style. The pub connection This headstone is interesting mainly because…

  • A quick look at family gravestones at Trealaw

    It is now two weeks since my visit to Trealaw cemetery, near Tonypandy, checking out as many grave plots as possible of my mum’s immediate and extended family. High time for some photos and a few notes. Monday 18th April was a fine day. We (my brother and myself) got out of the campsite a…