Jones in Yorkley 1840 (General)

by Watsol60 , Alrewas, Staffordshire, UK, Saturday, March 01, 2014, 02:31 (3922 days ago) @ Jefff

Hi Jeff,

A handy transcription did you say it was on this site? I haven't used this site before so still finding its treasures. The mag room sorry was the lovely (not) iPad spell checker it was just supposed to say "the groom" lol. The person that did the transcription seems to have some inside knowledge as there's nothing on the cert that says that Thomas Hulin is the parish clerk. There again other than the "Boten" Thomas is the only other illegible bit it looks more like Marcus, I wouldn't have guessed Thomas. The "Boten" of Yorkley is written next to the groom & Ha (a superscript underlined) of St Briavels is written next to the Bride. It's a certified facsimile that I have from the GRO, who also guessed Boten. If you squint you can imagine it says "both" so given the transcribers other knowledge I'm going to go with that. On the census the following year, they are living with the brides family, although the address is listed as Middle Forge, Tintern Parva, not St Briavels. I am still to track down Samuel Jones, until very recently the family doing research before me had him down as John not Samuel. I know one of the families goes from here to Ireland from pass down from my great grandmother their granddaughter. I have some jewellery of Ruth's mothers, at least I thought it was Ruth's mothers as my mothers little made up rhyme that counted back daughter to mother after Brown came Smith but I think Ruth's mother was Bailey so perhaps it's Edwards mother whose Smith. The jewellery was made in Ireland. So I've got a long way to go yet but perseverance brings rewards.
Many Thanks for your help
Lisa