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Re: ETHEL LOUISA JONES b. approx 1896. Died March 1931 I know this is a long shot as Jones is a very common name, but I would love to find relatives of my late father CHARLES ARCHIBALD CORBETT, b. 01/13/1918 - d. 09/12/2004. My father's birth was registered in Pontypridd, GLAMORGAN, Wales. Very little has been spoken of his family due to tragic circumstances, ending in murder, that occurred in 1931. After 1931 I'm told that an aunt took the children so he may have spent some time in the Jones family. As for my father's family, I have only found this information after his death as he wouldn't speak of it. There was a rumour and he had confirmed this to my mother. I looked into it further and have since received newspaper reports from the British Library: His parents were WILLIAM JOHN CORBETT, a coal miner - hewer in Glamorgan, Wales and ETHEL LOUISA JONES. The address on my father's birth certificate was 3 SOUTH PANDY Rd, CAERPHILLY. I don't know their exact birth dates but am estimating it to be in the mid 1890s. Ethel had an illegitimate daughter at the time of their 1917 marriage called FLORENCE (aka THORA) MATILDA, b. around 1915. She was unaware that William was not her father until 1931. Some time around late 1930 William lost his job and became mentally unstable with not being able to provide for his family. Apparantly he made a few suicide attempts. In March 1931 an domestic dispute broke between William, Ethel and Florence. It escelated to the extreme where William had a razor to Florence's throat and was certainly about to kill her. Ethel, who was pregnant, intervened and WIlliam cut her throat. He then went for Florence. However, with a severed wind pipe and jugular, Ethel managed to throw herself onto William and pull him off Florence before falling back, dead. Florence was able to make her escape. The family were living at 48 CAER BRAGDY (off Lawrence Street). William was tried at SWANSEA and executed by hanging at CARDIFF PRISON in August 1931. Ethel and WIllilam had 6 children, my father Charles, being the oldest. From newspaper clippings and Ethel's obituary I have found that the names of his siblings were: Florence (Thora), James, Sarah, Marjery (that is how it's spelled in the newspaper) and I'm aware that he had two sisters called Jean and Sally. Witnesses at Williams trial were DOROTHY WELL (neighbour) and JOHN VENN (friend). The arresting constable was WILLIAM BOWEN. Ethel's funeral was attended by: EDGAR JONES (brother), HAROLD JONES (brother) MRS JOHN JONES (mother - who also appears in the court records as Mrs M JONES), BRINLEY CORBETT (brother in law and his wife), RICHARD CORBETT (b-i-law), LIONEL JONES (nephew) and a number of other relatives (nieces, aunts, etc) with names such as LAWRENCE, LYNES, GLEE, HOWELLS, WALTERS, MORGAN, DAVIES, NASH, WILLIAMS and WALL. Sorry this is so long but I have very little to go on other than the newspaper reports. I would love to find out if I have any close relatives still living. I believe Jean lived in Canada and Sally died in Spain. They are the only ones I remember my father having any contact with at all.