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I am trying to verify if there was a tram crash in Cardiff around these dates in which there were fatalities.
I am trying to find details of husband and wife on a tram who could have been killed. The name is Sansoni. I have tried everything but can't find a thing!
Thanks for reading this.
Maria

Hello Maria, can you give us their first names and birth years?

Have you searched for deaths in the area around that time?

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page

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Marriages Mar 1879 (>99%)
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COUGHLIN Michael Cardiff 11a 327
Garrick Mary Ann Cardiff 11a 327
Sanders Bridget Cardiff 11a 327
>>>>SANSONI Giovani Cardiff 11a 327


Andy

not seeing that name on any census for Cardiff, although Cardiff is/was very cosmopolitan owing to the docks

Did Cardiff have a tramway systen in the 1880s / 1890s?

Cardiff Corporation Tramways operated an electric tramway service in Cardiff between 1902 and 1950

Unless of course they were horse drawn?

Horse trams had run in the city from 1872 until 1904. The first tram route ran from High Street in the city centre to the Docks run by the Cardiff Tramway Company. In 1898, Cardiff County Borough Council obtained Parliamentary powers to take over all the tramways in the area and go ahead with the new electric trams, owning them from 1903

Have you search the local newspapers?

Have you tried googling?

1872 A new newspaper, the South Wales Daily News, was launched.

A horse-drawn tram service was formally begun by Cardiff Tramway.

Castle Street was widened with the demolition of old buildings



1902 The last horse-drawn trams ceased to operate in the Town, and the first electric trams came into service with power provided by a new power station in Colchester Avenue, close to where Sainsbury's Superstore is now.

Cant see anything relavent in the newspapers - surely if there was a tram crash with fatalities it would have made the news?

Maria could you give both their first names and birth years to try to find the year of death. Also her maiden name might be of use please.

How did you get back to them - was it through their descendants? It's jut it can be ueful to find ancestors when you know where their descendants are. The more info the better!

Added, incidently if you can't fnd a thing it's usualy because you are barking up the wrong tree somewere! Go back to basics and what you know and try tracing agian fron there. <3

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/trying_to_find/thread/450239

Andy

from that thread posted by Andrew ................. dated 5 April 2007


Searching for Giovanni Sansoni from Cardiff. He was a sailor and married Mary Ann Garrick, a widow in 1879. I have addresses of Sophia St and Frederick St Cardiff, late 1800s early 1900s. Trying to find any children of the marraige and where they went to. They seem to have disapeared from all records. Also Hope Sansoni born approx 1900 in Calcutta, India Would appreciate any clues. Maria



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sylvia

possible
search on British newspaper archive website


Western Mail
SUPPOSED LOSS OF A CARDIFF STEAMER
“... terrible crash, a tram fell down the shaft upon his the unfortunate fellows, crushing and mutilating ev them in a horrible maaaer. ... ”


Sat 10 Feb 1883 , Western Mail , South Glamorgan, Wales

Maria




Have you bought the marriage certificate to get the names of the fathers?


How are you related to them?


If by a child, where was that child born, and when?

Hope Enid Sansoni
India, Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947
birth: 14 Nov 1903
christening: 28 Jan 1904 Calcutta,? Bengal,? India
residence: 1903 Bengal,? India
parents: Thomas Sansoni,? Eliza


name: Hope Enid Sansoni
gender: Female
baptism/christening date: 28 Jan 1904
baptism/christening place: Calcutta, Bengal, India
birth date: 14 Nov 1903
father's name: Thomas Sansoni
mother's name: Eliza
indexing project (batch) number: C75038-5
system origin: India-EASy
source film number: 527521

Thomas William Sansoni
India, Marriages, 1792-1948
birth: 1865
marriage: 16 Apr 1898 Calcutta,? Bengal,? India
parents: Louis Sansoni
spouse: Eliza Rebecca Smellie


groom's name: Thomas William Sansoni
groom's birth date: 1865
groom's age: 33
bride's name: Eliza Rebecca Smellie
bride's birth date: 1868
bride's age: 30
marriage date: 16 Apr 1898
marriage place: Calcutta, Bengal, India
groom's father's name: Louis Sansoni
bride's father's name: James Smellie
groom's marital status: Widowed
bride's marital status: Single
indexing project (batch) number: M39364-1
system origin: India-EASy
source film number: 512368

Thomas Sansoni
India Deaths and Burials, 1719-1948
birth: 1865
death: 12 Jun 1939
burial: 14 Jun 1939 Calcutta,? Bengal,? India


name: Thomas Sansoni
gender: Male
burial date: 14 Jun 1939
burial place: Calcutta, Bengal, India
death date: 12 Jun 1939
age: 74
birth date: 1865
marital status: Unknown
indexing project (batch) number: B75061-5
system origin: India-EASy
source film number: 533201

Marriages Sep 1877 (>99%)
Farrell Mary Ann Cardiff 11a 361
Garrick George Cardiff 11a 361

mary ann farrell b. 1855 cardiff

not finding her as a married women on the census

Hello
My sincere thanks to everyone that has responded, I am overwhelmed!

Family stories relate how a married couple Govanni Sansoni & wife Mary (she had been widowed. Her previous surnames were Farrell & Garrick) perished in a tram crash.
They supposedly left behind a young son. His name was Joseph or John. He was alledgedly adopted by a local Dr & his wife and taken to India.
It was said that he was allowed to keep his own name and not be changed to that of his adopted parents.

I did manage to get a marriage cert for Giovanni but have never been able to find death certs for them or birth cert for their son. I always assumed that as a sailor he left Cardiff and took his wife with him.

This of course would mean the tram crash was a story and this leaves me with a very very mysterious Anglo Indian Grandparent!!!
Once again thanks for your help.
Maria