Jane Nelmes, parents of (General)

by peteressex , Saturday, July 14, 2012, 09:11 (4518 days ago) @ jjedwards

JJ, you're asking for Jane's parents but I might have information on her brother. Slowhands has found a Jane Nelmes with a brother called James.

Although the parish records index on here gives another two or three Lydney candidates as the James Nelmes I'm about to refer to, the age (born 1894) looks about right for the Jim Nelmes in the 1952 photo at www.sungreen.co.uk/Lydney/Lydney_Cross_Group.html who was a member of Lydney Rural District Council at that time as well as a trained civil defence volunteer and landlord of the Cross Keys pub by Lydney Cross.

Also, Slowhands shows that the apparent father Guy Nelmes at his death in 1950 had the address 21 Albert Street, Lydney. I'm told by one of my living Lydney relatives that a family by the name of Nelmes ran the Step Aside Inn. This was pretty adjacent to 29 Albert Street where my grandmother's family (Sterrey) lived. I'm not sure what the exact number of the Step Aside was but you can still make out the embossment of the inn's name on the front wall.

Thus there's a possibility that licensed victualling ran in the blood of the family you're researching, but as a further cautionary note I should add that the spelling "Nelms" has also occurred in the area and I don't know the spelling for the Step Aside landlord.