BEACH/BEECH - (Ancestor Search Website Guidance) (General)

by BSEDDON , Friday, October 12, 2012, 14:19 (4506 days ago) @ slowhands

Hi Slowhands, thanks for your help...

There are a bunch of baptisms in Coleford where the parents are listed as James Beach & Mary

1838 James 1841 Sylvia 1845 Rhoda 1848 Hannah 1850 Margaret

The most likely couple (date wise) appeared to be James and Mary Howlett (Jones by previous marriage). However their Residence at Marriage was given as Tregagal which was a concern to me.

I Googled Tregagal and got this letter from Craig in America which forms part of this thread....

My Beach ancestors were not very original when it came to names.

As far back as I (with the help of others) has been the James Beach 1745-1795, wife Elizabeth Hughes > their son James born 1782 died ??, wife Sylvia Williams > there son James 1816-1867 and wife Mary Howell. (This is the one that had property).

Their son James moved to America in 1857 and died Lyons, Kansas 1917.

Hope that helps.

Craig

This letter seems to set in stone links that I had been working on but wasn't sure about. In particular James has the dates 1745-1795 (from where???). Maybe my Tregagal reservations were overdone? There are no other Beach/Tregagal links on the site. I've no idea of their religious background but James BEECH 1816 appears not to have been born there. I guess it's feasible that he moved out for a while and then returned to the forest?

Brian