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Post by edjones on Feb 10, 2016 11:36:59 GMT 1
A long shot as I have little solid information but here goes. Some time in the 1930s my grandmother witnessed her brother William Walsh being killed whilst crossing the road to deliver a letter. He would have been about 50 at that time having been born in Cork in 1885. The Merthyr papers on British Newspapers Archive are both too early. I bought a death certificate for a William Walsh died Pontypridd 1932 but that was not the man. The William Walsh I am looking for was a coal hewer. My grandmother, long dead, had lived in Merthyr Vale and later in Pengam and that is about all the information I have. Might it be mentioned in the Merthyr Express? Does the archive for that paper have a search facility? As I said; a long shot. But hope springs eternal in the human breast.
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Post by mikemerthyr on Feb 10, 2016 13:23:44 GMT 1
Hello edjones There is a William Walsh died aged 50 registered at Merthyr Tydfil District in June Quarter 1939 according to website Free BMD, this might be your relative I will have a look in the newspaper to see if there is a report.
Mike
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Post by mikemerthyr on Feb 11, 2016 11:24:39 GMT 1
I had a look in Merthyr Express newspaper could not see a report of accident/death but I could have mist it. It might have been reported in another paper eg South Wales Echo or Western Mail or South Wales Argus but not able to search these sorry.
Mike
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Post by edjones on Feb 13, 2016 15:15:19 GMT 1
Thank you very much for your interest, mikemerthyr. The Free BMD death is certainly worth following up, so thanks particularly for that possibility.
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Post by barker29 on Jan 16, 2018 9:02:57 GMT 1
I understand that it’s quite an old thread but I couldn’t stop noticing the similarities with accident of one of my friends who works for a DUI lawyer for quite some time now. I am going to share this thread with him and sure that he will be amazed to see the similarities. |
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