Jane, daughter of Phillip & Hannah PRITCHARD (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, December 04, 2014, 16:47 (3643 days ago) @ shepway

Thanks Mike, you clearly cannot beat local knowledge !. Guess there's been more than one Red Lion over the years. Thanks to you I'm getting a better minds-eye of the town now. My most recent recollections are Friday nights driving up the A40 "motorway" from college near Cardiff, thro the tunnel then emergency stop at the "surprising" traffic lights, I thought by the School?. Turn right over the Wye? towards the Forest. A year or two before this c1980, driving lessons and test! in Monmouth, a seemingly OVERwide "High" Street towards ? the old fortified Bridge (over the Monnow?). A few beers after bussed swim-meets at Monmouth pool and that's it !. Shamefully ignorant of the town's obvious historical attractions with the Castle museum etc etc, MUST have a good look round next summer.

Thanks again, and does your schooling mean I can please send you my trouser repairs ;-)

I'll leave this thread(boom-boom) to you guys now, too many false leads for this amateur to unpick; just searched Ancestry high & low for any trace of an Irish-born Hannah(Anna) Parsons, Brown and even Payne in the 1851 & 1841 Census, no luck whatsoever, ditto father Patrick Brown. Guess they were still in Ireland ?.
Sincerely hope someone else finds them, good luck.