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The signature of Robert Long does look similar - maybe he was a friend/work colleague of John Wright?

We also have Friends of Mendip Cemetery and WsM Library attending our May Fair, Pat, if you'd like to add them to your list?

Refreshments are available, too.

Many of my ancestors moved around and I find that they often give the place they remember from their childhood as where they were born - which wasn't necessarily the same place.  Spare a thought for those of us with foreign ancestors: as the enumerators were only instructed to record the birth country.  Only occasionally did they write down the district or town...and, naturally (being unfamiliar with the person's accent and the spellings of that country), they mangled the information.

I, too, remember watching the last coronation on a 12" TV set, in black and white (no colour TV in those days!)...but at home.  My stepfather & mother joined forces with many people who obtained a TV set at this time - probably rented.

Hi Jeff

Thank you I have now corrected this error and uploaded a new file. Graham.

Thanks Pat. Mystery solved. Morris Lewis married Annie Griffiths in 1912. Subsequently Annie married Ewart Crichard  a widower, in 1947 , he originally from Axmouth. Annie died in 1975

BA

Although the GRO Index does not give a mother's maiden name FreeBMD does give one for a Thomas B LEWIS whose birth was registered in Bridgend in 1927 - It was GRIFFITHS.  This would seem to infer that a male LEWIS married a female GRIFFITHS before 1927. 

Any time Pat. By the way noticed that both Charles Marmadukes were buried at Key Hill.

One last bit I do not understand. On the second school record H*bert is "Re-admitted" to the school in June 1890. On the first he left on  8-Feb-1889 "Gone to South Wales". This is after his father re-married (as we have subsequently found out). Where was he for that 15 months? (I originally presumed his father was working in Wales - but probably not the case now). Who did he go to live with in Wales? - or should that be "New South Wales" in which case there should be even more passenger lists (which I have not found any of) knocking around.

I'll leave that one with you...