On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:03:38 -0000, Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > Hello Josephine, > Crikey; Your filing must a lot better than mine, if you know he's one > of my wife's relatives. My beady eyes are everywhere, Brad:-) And anyway, I've had my Welsh hat on this past week :-) > I've now been to Mike John's Monmouthshire transcription site, and found > a couple of other > BALMONDs buried in Abersychan. Most were buried at Trevethin. Stupidly, > I didn't think to check the Abersychan page before. I'm glad you've found some other BALMONDs. It's an interesting name and one that catches the eye. > It's even given me a handle on one of the BALMOND girls that has been > tricky to prove she existed, except in one census return. The burial > for Annie in 1874 has enabled me to locate a likely death registration > for her. Certificate to be ordered in due course. Reading this, I remembered that my aunt, by marriage, who lived in Bristol for most of her life, once lived in Abersychan. I have just had a look in FreeBMD to find her marriage to my uncle. My aunt's first name on the marriage registration wasn't the name I was expecting. I see now that she was known in the family by her middle name. So I've found out something new today, just by thinking about Abersychan, and I've also located her birth registration in Abergavenny. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:11:39 -0000 "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: Hello Josephine, > My beady eyes are everywhere, Brad:-) I've met you, remember. Your eyes aren't beady. :-) > And anyway, I've had my Welsh hat on this past week :-) Ah, that explains a lot. > I'm glad you've found some other BALMONDs. It's an interesting name and > one that catches the eye. Sadly, they all die off in Wales. The last generation were all female, so the name didn't continue. There are some BALMONDS in the Midlands, but I don't know if they're related in any way to my wife's. > So I've found out something new today, just by thinking about > Abersychan, and I've also located her birth registration in > Abergavenny. Tangents; I love 'em. :-)) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Kill joy, bad guy, big talking, small fry Death On Two Legs - Queen