Eliza JONES 1821 -1894 St Briavels & Clearwell Fence (General)

by Jenny B, Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 09:58 (5246 days ago) @ slowhands

Slowhands - thank you for pointing out my careless error stating that in 1881 Eliza was recorded as aged 70, a widow under the name Eliza BALDWIN. You are correct - the year was 1891.

The 1881 record you had is the same as I identified for Eliza also - with her son George JONES.

The 1891 census on Ancestry actually records Eliza's granddaughter as Elizabeth ANNA in the Index - but if you look at the actual image you will see it is CRUM. FindmyPast has the name correctly transcribed as CRUM in the index.

I initially thought Eliza's 1891 record was perhaps just an error on the enumerators part and mistakenly recorded BALDWIN instead of JONES. However it is too much of a coincidence that 4 years prior Eliza's granddaughter was registered and baptised Elizabeth Baldwin JONES and that by the 1911 census at least three of Eliza's grandsons were going by the name BALDWIN while siblings remained JONES.

Again Slowhands you have identified the same burial record for Eliza as I did - and back under her married name of JONES.

Would love to find this family in 1861 to see if Elizabeth JONES born 1844 was still there. I have no leads on Elizabeth. I have searched at length on both Ancestry and FindmyPast without success.

With thanks.
Jenny