Oliver HILL 1872 -1928 Collafield / Green Bottom (General)

by unknown, Thursday, December 30, 2010, 10:30 (5085 days ago) @ slowhands

Thanks for the reply re Oliver. Yes, he is correct and I have him. The rest of the family, many of whom I remember and one of whom Irene Ellen was my maternal grandmother, cannot be found. My great grandmother Mary Hill b.1848, lost her husband James Baylis Hill in 1907 and, by the next decade was living in Pontywaun, Crosskeys, Monmouthshire in a cottage attached to an old flannel Factory. It was here that my my grandmother, Nell, married my Gloucester born grandfather.
I have found the 1911 census for all the children too old to be living with their mother, but can find nothing of Mary Hill and her children, Mary b.1890 (known as May) Irene Ellen b.1894 (known as Nell, my grandmother), James b.1887, Joseph Reynolds b.1883 (adopted)or Elizabeth Beaman b.1894 (adopted).
I knew some of these myself and still have older relatives who knew all of them, but can find no trace in 1911. The girls were certainly in service at somwe point and I believe in Cheltenham.
thank you so much for your trouble.
Best wishes
Michael Snow