Hi looking to find out any information on the late Jim webb previous welsh rugby star related to my self my grandfather was Clifford webb of swfrydd great grand father Walter webb born Gloucester moved to swfrydd aged 10 with parents Charles webb I now he moved back to coleford after finishing is career any information of relatives. And is final resting place would be great

Hi

Is this the chap you mean? From Wikipedia:

Full name Alfred James Webb[1]
Date of birth 1878
Place of birth Coleford, Gloucestershire, England
Date of death 29 July 1955
Place of death Upper Soudley, England
Height 181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 89 kg (14 st 0 lb)
Occupation(s) collier
Rugby league career
Position Prop, Hooker, Second-row
Professional clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1912 - 1913 St Helens RLFC 5 0
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Lock
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team
? - 1912 Abertillery RFC
Monmouthshire
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1907-1912
1908 Wales
British Isles 20
3 (6)
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Hi

Is this the chap you mean? From Wikipedia:

Full name Alfred James Webb[1]
Date of birth 1878
Place of birth Coleford, Gloucestershire, England
Date of death 29 July 1955
Place of death Upper Soudley, England
Height 181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 89 kg (14 st 0 lb)
Occupation(s) collier
Rugby league career
Position Prop, Hooker, Second-row
Professional clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1912 - 1913 St Helens RLFC 5 0
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Lock
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team
? - 1912 Abertillery RFC
Monmouthshire
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1907-1912
1908 Wales
British Isles 20
3 (6)
(0

Picture of jim
http://www.abertillery.net/oldabertillery/tales/webb.html

The Wiki info may not be totally accurate, and there may be an error in the transcription...

Name:Alfred Webb
Birth Date:abt 1878
Date of Registration:Jan-Feb-Mar 1955
Age at Death:77
Registration District:Forest of Dean
Inferred County:Gloucestershire
Volume:7b
Page:503

Name:Alfred Webb
Probate Date:15 Feb 1955
Death Date:29 Jan 1955
Death Place:Gloucestershire, England
Registry:Gloucestershire, England

Year: 1955
Month: Feb
Day: 1
Surname: WEBB
Forenames: Alfred
Residence: Upper Soudley Ruspidge
Age_at_death: 72 years
Officiating_Minister: W Barber Vicar of Drybrook
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes: 8/55 written in margin
Register_Reference: P85/1 IN 1/16
Page_No: 83
Parish_Chapel: Cinderford St John

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Hi that's him any help finding is last address and the cemetery he is buired at would be great

Hi that's him any help finding is last address and the cemetery he is buired at would be great

The probate record just gives Upper Soudley

the graveyard is StJohns Cinderford

I tend to think that this is his family

Year: 1847
Month: Feb
Day: 14
Parents_Surname: WEBB
Child_Forenames: Charles
Fathers_Forenames: John
Mothers_Forenames: Isabella
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Berry Hill
Occupation: Nailer
Officiating_Minister: C W Grove Off[iciating] Min[iste]r
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: PFC82 IN 1/3
Page_Number: 7
Parish_Chapel: Christchurch

WEBB Charles
FROWEN Sarah Anne
Forest of Dean English Bicknor St Mary
1867 1 98

Year: 1867
Month: Jan
Day: 12
Grooms_Surname: WEBB
Grooms_Forenames: Charles
Grooms_Age: 20
Groom_Condition: Bachelor
Grooms_Occupation: Nailer
Grooms_Residence: English Bicknor
Grooms_Fathers_Surname: WEBB
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames: John
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation: Nailer
Brides_Surname: FROWEN
Brides_Forenames: Sarah Ann
Brides_Age: 19
Brides_Condition: Spinster
Brides_Occupation: [not stated]
Brides_Residence: English Bicknor
Brides_Fathers_Surname: FROWEN
Brides_Fathers_Forenames: Thomas
Brides_Fathers_Occupation: Labourer
Licence_or_Banns: Banns
Date_of_Banns: 1866 Dec 23 30 1867 Jan 6
Signature_or_Mark: Both sign
Witness_1: John Webb
Witness_2: Mark of Rosanna Edwards
Other_Witnesses:
Officiating_Minister: John Burdon
Event: Marriage
Memoranda:
Notes: Banns are in P138 IN 1/10 page 80.
Register_Reference: P138 IN 1/12
Page_Number: 49
Parish_Chapel: English Bicknor

1871Berry Hill
Charles Webb 24
Sarah A Webb 23
Thomas Webb 1

WEBB Alfred
WEBB FROWEN
1882 Forest of Dean Monmouth, Coleford 40 450

1891 Abertillary
Charles Webb abt 1847 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Head Aberystruth, Monmouthshire
Sarah Webb abt 1848 English Bicknor, Gloucestershire, England Wife Aberystruth, Monmouthshire
William Webb abt 1872 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son
John Webb abt 1874 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son
Joseph Webb abt 1876 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son
Isabelle Webb abt 1875 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter
Robert Webb abt 1879 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son
Walter Webb abt 1881 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son
Alfred Webb abt 1883 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son
Rose Webb abt 1886 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter
William Jenkins abt 1873 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Boarder

1911 Abertillary
Charles Webb 64
Sarah Ann Webb 63
Alfred Webb 27 Coal miner
Alfred Frowen 18
John Davis 30
Charles Rawlins 56

And your Walter :-

Name: Walter Webb & Hannah Jane Parsons
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1903
Registration District: Pontypool
Inferred County: Monmouthshire
Volume Number: 11a
Page Number: 264

1911 12 Herbert Ter Hafodyegrigs Nr Crumlin Mon
Walter Webb 31 Berry Hill
Hannah Jane Webb 30 Abertillary
Hannah Jane Parsons 70 Somerset Coleford
Sarah Nn Webb 7
James Webb 5
Walter Webb 4
Jenet Webb 1
Frederic Webb 9/12

updated
Hafodyrynys - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafodyrynys

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Welsh place names must be a horror for transcribers, Hafodyegrigs Nr Crumlin Mon should read Hafodyrynys Nr Crumlin Mon.

Thanks for the information going to visit grave yard on week end hope fully can find grave I think he had 2 daughters so any ideas if any relatives still living around area be as a nerve which is my late dads antie still a live she's 95 ( greta Webb)

Hi,
re trying to contact possible family members, whereabouts are you now ?
I ask as traditionally a possible plan is to go thro the phone directories, altho of course the BT Directories are VERY thin these days as many people use other company's phones. Directories are available to view/copy at public librairies. Only a few months ago I had a call out of the blue from a lady in Sussex going thro all us Jones in our local (West London) directory, so quite a task !. Unfortunately I couldnt help her, although we had an interesting chat as it seemed her father's family had moved to this area to work at the huge EMI factories during the War, just as I moved here to work at those same factories albeit years later, AND she had family in Lydney, talk about small world !!. Not surprisingly given our name she'd phoned several people, most had been very pleasant, I hope she eventually found success. She'd also lookedup the BMDs etc to try to get clues, plus local newspaper archives, she was looking to find people from 50 years back.

I also suggested she put an advert/letter in the local papers, I think this is your best plan too albeit time appears rather tight. For the Forest area there are at least two local newspapers, both weeklies, The Forester (pay for) and the Review/Advertiser(a freebie but still very good paper & widely read). I just phoned my sister at The Forester front desk; she confirms they just recently started being a Wednesday issue (was always Fridays), and adverts need to be in a week before. However she advises your enquiry is best sent as a letter/email to the Editor, so no cost and MAY even get published at short noticer if space permits, at the Editor's discretion. It seems the Review has now become under the same local ownership as The Forester, albeit different contact details, see

http://www.theforester.co.uk/contact.cfm

http://www.theforestreview.co.uk/contact.cfm

I do hope this helps and good luck in your search.

Hi,
re trying to contact possbile family members, whereabouts are you now ?
I ask as traditionally a possible plan is to go thro the phone directories, altho of course the BT Directories are VERY thin these days as many people use other company's phones. Directories are available to view/copy at public librairies. Only a few months ago I had a call out of the blue from a lady in Sussex going thro all us Jones in our local (West London) directory, so quite a task !. Unfortunately I couldnt help her, although we had an interesting chat as it seemed her father's family had moved to this area to work at the huge EMI factories during the War, just as I moved here to work at those same factories albeit years later, AND she had family in Lydney, talk about small world !!. Not surprisingly given our name she'd phoned several people, most had been very pleasant, I hope she eventually found success. She'd also lookedup the BMDs etc to try to get clues, plus local newspaper archives, she was looking to find people from 50 years back.

I also suggested she put an advert/letter in the local papers, I think this is your best plan too albeit time appears rather tight. For the Forest area there are at least two local newspapers, both weeklies, The Forester (pay for) and the Review/Advertiser(a freebie but still very good paper & widely read). I just phoned my sister at The Forester front desk; she confirms they just recently started being a Wednesday issue (was always Fridays), and adverts need to be in a week before. However she advises your enquiry is best sent as a letter/email to the Editor, so no cost and MAY even get published at short noticer if space permits, at the Editor's discretion. It seems the Review has now become under the same local ownership as The Forester, albeit different contact details, see

http://www.theforester.co.uk/contact.cfm

http://www.theforestreview.co.uk/contact.cfm

I do hope this helps and good luck in your search.

But please do not ask here. Living relative searches will not be supported

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=9711

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In accordance with privacy conventions, posts about living relatives would traditionally be unsupported. However, as Bob Dylan said, the times they are a-changing. We now have social networking media. If people post themselves up front in places like facebook and twitter, I think it's fair to assume they are willing to be contacted and discussed in public. I've found more living Forest relatives that way in the last month or so than I would previously have imagined possible.

In accordance with privacy conventions, posts about living relatives would traditionally be unsupported. However, as Bob Dylan said, the times they are a-changing. We now have social networking media. If people post themselves up front in places like facebook and twitter, I think it's fair to assume they are willing to be contacted and discussed in public. I've found more living Forest relatives that way in the last month or so than I would previously have imagined possible.

I am going to be very clear such requests on this forum will not be supported. http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=9711

Other sites as suggested by Jefff and Peter may help......

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Sorry about request did not now it breached laws

Sorry about request did not now it breached laws

They are not laws - just guidelines to help avoid difficult situations

We try to be as helpful as we can , but we decided to draw a line some time ago.

We are aware that some disagree. we aim to please most people most of the time !

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