St Briavels - Lewis/ Whittington / Bromley / Jones families (General)

by Paulina, Saturday, April 07, 2018, 08:34 (2422 days ago)

Hi All,

Just looking for a steer. I recently joined ancestry.com and discovered my entire matriarchal line from my Grandmother (Victoria Lewis) all the way back as far as I could research (about 1750) were all born, married and died in or near St Briavels. A great revelation and now of course I wish to go there soon. In fact, my ill fated fourth great grandmother Mary Whittington actually sadly drowned in the river Wye (cause unknown, the inquest says she walked out into the snow) and thereafter it seems that my fourth great grandmother on the other side, who lived at The Fence married her widower. Her name was Hannah Bromley. The previously born children of the both great grandmothers thereafter married and one of their children was my grandmothers grandmother, Maryanne Whittington.

I'd only imagine the gossip back there in the day and I'm greatly intrigued by this story.

Does anyone know anything about this?

regards