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Helen

Helen Report 19 Feb 2011 12:52

dear all
i have e mailed swansea archives for pegler street in the 1891 census it is not with them so i i will never have a have a better birth place other than glam pensarn for my great grandfather joseph davies born 1863

there doesnt seem so be a pensarn in glamorgan

i recieved a birth certificate

joseph davies carmarthen carmarthen 12th april 1863
father davied davies bootmaker mother ellen davies formally davies water street carmarthen
i have done all the research possible with joseph davies from the carmarthen area of carmarthen with david as father bootmaker
but

joseph marriage certificate gives
father as david deceased cattledealer not bootmaker or shoemaker

i know that occupations change but i still have a niggle that he could have come from the
pensarn near abergele
and would like to try a trace from this area

please does anybody know what
registration district
birth in sub district of
in the county of

pensarn abergele would come under

thanks a million

pain in the backside

helen

FannyByGaslight

FannyByGaslight Report 19 Feb 2011 21:27

Registration District:
St Asaph

Sub District:
Abergele

County:
Denbighshire

Taken from an address search of 1861 census

WILLIAMS, Thomas Head Married M 50 1811 Farmer Of 36 Acres
Abergele
WILLIAMS, Lettice Wife Married F 51 1810
Abergele

Registration District:
St Asaph Sub District:
Abergele Enumeration District:
10 Ecclesiastical Parish:
St Asaph

Civil Parish:
Abergele Municipal Borough:
Address:
Ty Croes, Abergele, Pensarn County:
Denbighshire

Mike *

Mike * Report 19 Feb 2011 21:41


PENSARN is a suburb of Abergele in Conwy County Borough, Wales
There is this household with father David ... but living in Northumberland ??

Household:1881

David DAVIES Head M Male 48 Neath, Glamorgan, Wales House Agent
Ann DAVIES Wife M Female 50 Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales
Elizabeth DAVIES Dau U Female 22 Neath, Glamorgan, Wales Unemployed
William DAVIES Son U Male 20 Shewen, Glamorgan, Wales Coal Traveller
David DAVIES Son U Male 18 Shewen, Glamorgan, Wales Clerk
Joseph DAVIES Son Male 15 Shewen, Glamorgan, Wales Scholar
Dina DAVIES Dau Female 8 Walker, Northumberland, England Scholar
William DAVIES Father In Law W Male 82 Methyr Tydvil, Glamorgan, Wales No Occupation Formerly Butler
Edith A. F. DEVEREUX Grand Dau Female 2 London Hornsea, London, Middlesex, England

Source Information:
Dwelling 2 Willow House
Census Place Longbenton, Northumberland, England

Mike *

Mike * Report 19 Feb 2011 21:47

and I think Shewen should read Skewen. which is Neath, Glamorgan