Post by nigel on Aug 7, 2006 19:33:49 GMT 1
Firstly, well done for an excellent website. The sort of thing the web should be used for.
I have been researching my family for some years now, and can trace some of it back to the 17th century. But. On my Welsh side I run into the slight problem that my grandfather Thomas Richards had a somewhat common name! And his mother was a Jones, and his father was Thomas Richards and his grandmaother was a Jones!
Worse still, I know they all lived in or near Quakers Yard from the mid 1870s to the late 1880s but no census taker or registrar could agree exactly where. And this is where I'd really like some help.
Their house was called 'Tunnel Top, Quakers Yard' in 1877; in 1880 it was 'Coedcae Coad Road, Quakers Yard'; in 1881 it was 'Goedecoid Row'. After talking to the lovely ladies at Treharris Library, we sort of settled on Goitre Coed Road, in particular the cottages at the top by the bridge over the bypass. GGrandfather Thomas was a railway waggon inspector, so I guess he could walk to work at the junction over the viaduct.
All the boys went down the mines, except my grandfather who ran off and joined the army.
It's taken me years to get this far (they were variously said to be born in Quakers Yard, Mountain Ash, Merthyr Tydfil and Treharris), but I would very much like to find out more about their lives in Quaker's Yard.
Your pictures have helped me greatly, and I would appreciate any help anyone can give me more information to learn more of my heritage (and for my daughter who now sports Welsh rugby shirts).
Many thanks
Nigel Wood
I have been researching my family for some years now, and can trace some of it back to the 17th century. But. On my Welsh side I run into the slight problem that my grandfather Thomas Richards had a somewhat common name! And his mother was a Jones, and his father was Thomas Richards and his grandmaother was a Jones!
Worse still, I know they all lived in or near Quakers Yard from the mid 1870s to the late 1880s but no census taker or registrar could agree exactly where. And this is where I'd really like some help.
Their house was called 'Tunnel Top, Quakers Yard' in 1877; in 1880 it was 'Coedcae Coad Road, Quakers Yard'; in 1881 it was 'Goedecoid Row'. After talking to the lovely ladies at Treharris Library, we sort of settled on Goitre Coed Road, in particular the cottages at the top by the bridge over the bypass. GGrandfather Thomas was a railway waggon inspector, so I guess he could walk to work at the junction over the viaduct.
All the boys went down the mines, except my grandfather who ran off and joined the army.
It's taken me years to get this far (they were variously said to be born in Quakers Yard, Mountain Ash, Merthyr Tydfil and Treharris), but I would very much like to find out more about their lives in Quaker's Yard.
Your pictures have helped me greatly, and I would appreciate any help anyone can give me more information to learn more of my heritage (and for my daughter who now sports Welsh rugby shirts).
Many thanks
Nigel Wood