Documents and Articles - New Additions, May 2009 (Documents Articles)
Supplied by Jim Ashton
ROBERTS - Will of William Roberts 1846 of Hawthorns
Wills Section
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Supplied by Pamela Howard
Sydney and Alice Thomas.pdf
Golden wedding of Sydney and Alice Thomas who married at Newnham 1904 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1913. Also underneath the clipping is the birth details of their daughter Gertrude Irene Thomas (b.1907) and her husband Charles Owen Scrivens (b. 1894)
Newspaper Clippings Section
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Will of Thomas Roberts, Wood Collier of Owls Green
Transcribed and provided by David & Sue Drinkwater
ROBERTS - Will of Thomas Roberts Wood Collier of Owls Green 1881.pdf
Wills & Adoms Section
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Wood Collier - definition
Wood Collier - A charcoal burner. The term often denotes an apprentice or labourer employed by the artisan "master-burner".