Hi All I have recently rejoined the List after an absence of several years to continue with my FOD research. Following a very helpful response to a recent enquiry re a missing Beach/Howell family from Freddy, I would like to offer a suggestion which may or may not have merit - feedback from the List would be good. I myself specialise in EDWARDS research in the FOD and in addition to a significant number of transcripts of Edwards parish records for baptisms, births, marriages, burials and deaths, I hold Edwards extracts from the 1851-1891 census records, and details of over 120 other Edwards researchers around the world (though not all from FOD). I know of another lady who specialises in HALE research. I have no doubt that most of us have accumulated a significant amount of information on their chosen subject - be it SURNAMES, CHURCHES, SPECIFIC FOD TOWNS, PARISHES whatever. It was only by accident that I discovered Freddy had BEACH research and he has been most helpful in providing me with new information. And until I rejoined the list no one would have known of my specific Edwards interest. Would anyone be interested in posting our collective specialist areas on a web site as lookup offers or does something already exist out there specific to the FOD?. It could be argued that this is the purpose of the List of course. I know I would be willing to provide Edwards lookups (and am helping someone at the moment) as this would also assist in identifying a possible connection to my own lines. I would be more than happy to maintain the site as I administered the Renfrewshire Surnames List for nearly 2 years, only putting it up for adoption earlier this year. Open discussion would be most welcome. I have some thoughts in relation to the site but would like feedback first. Most importantly I do not want to reinvent the wheel so if something of this nature already exists, please let me know about. Regards Chris O'Sullivan Picton, NSW (100km sw of Sydney)

Brilliant idea - looking for WORGAN primarily but they married lots of other people !!!!!!!! Turner, Daniel, Harris, Kear, Potter........Where do you stop? I hope you get a lot of positive feedback, its' a really good idea, Liz

Hi All, In 2000, I began a website for Sct-Wigtownshire lookups. Ideally, it was supposed to be a couple of pages devoted to lookups, but it has grown a good deal since then, helped by the support of many contributors and a very good web partner. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/ During that time, I've had to think about the points that Chris brought up, so I'd like to take a stabe at answering them. 1) That's a good idea. On our lookup page, we finally ended up creating a step by step guideline for lookup requests. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/parishes/parishlist.html 2) Nope. The spam bots find you no matter what you do. Many on the freepages list have kicked around various ideas for eluding the spam bots, but I have not seen any that has been long term effective. The best bet is to get yourself a free email address (i.e. hotmail, yahoo) reserved only for mail generated from the site. Use filters or their spam guard to get rid of any junk. Preserve your personal email address for rootsweb and other mail. 3)Good idea. Sounds like a good endeavour. Go for it:-) Leigh-Ann --- Chris O'Sullivan <familyhistory@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > Hi All > > I have just read David's posting. David, it > makes perfect sense to include this > idea/concept as a new page to an existing FOD > specfic site, (I just wasn't sure if anyone > else would support the idea), so if you would > like to undertake the task please feel free to > do so. > > I do have some thoughts though which I was > going to raise: > > 1. Lookup limits would have to be made with > specific enquiries only undertaken and 1 at a > time. > 2. Email addresses should NOT be displayed to > deter the spambots. Suggestions here would be > good. Does hiding the email addresses by > linking from a person's name deter the spambots > - not sure? > > 3. An additional piece of information I would > like to see would be the linking of any > relevant FOD family web sites - I have 2 FOD > family sites. > > > > Does anyone have further suggestions? > > > > Regards > > Chris > > > > > > > > > ==== ENG-GLOS-FOREST-DEAN Mailing List ==== > list owner can be contacted on > kinetahill@hotmail.com please state mailing > list in subject. thank you > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including > the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. > Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Chris, This sounds like a great idea! My only concern is that somelike like myself, who hasn't built up a large data base for my Newent ancestors, might not be able to contribute much information yet. I don't think I could call this my specialty in the way my PIXTONs from Lancashire are. How do others feel about this? Best regards, Mary Anne Pusey Maryland, USA

Hello Listers, My first request! Could SKS please look up 1851 Census household entry for Thomas Adams, a Tailor, believed to be living in Blakeney. His son, John, eventually went as a boy to S Wales and later married a Cornish Girl, Cordelia Yates(Yeates). Those two were my wife's g-parents. Geoff Ford Sydney NSW Transcriber 1851 Census Kea and 1851 Census Feock Cornwall Online Census Project http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html OPC for Kea Parish Church

I know that / in 'inhabited' means a house and that / against a name means the end of that family in the same house and that // should depict the start of the next house BUT I have got an entry without // and it is confusing! If SKS is loooking at 364/11 pages 19b & 20 near the end There is james Smith & his family, next door is Mary Smith (but there was no // only /) she appears to be 15 with another Mary 15 then over the page is John 20/26 and Timothy 20 then another property appears to start but there is no // only / Would you agree that I have defined the properties right AND is Mary in property2 really 15??!! V Atkinson

I think it is a good idea V Atkinson Davis, Duberley, Elley x2, Gamon, Griffiths, Howell, Hodges, Hooper, Jones, Mayel, ,Smith,Wherret

Hello Jim Greetings from a fine Spring day in New Zealand. We have a large number of our Jones family born in all the districts you mention, so don't give up just yet! Whilst the names you have nominated don't seem related today, we will have a good look at our family research and see if we can find anything. You will be pleased to know that in the past two years we have found a number of new " Jones cousins" and it sure makes the wait worth while!  Slàinte Brian O’Brien Waipu -----Original Message----- From: Jim Jones [mailto:j.b.jones@tesco.net] Sent: Friday, 10 September 2004 02:56 To: ENG-GLOS-FOREST-DEAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [FoD] JONES Family FOD - Help Sought Since joining the list some four months ago, I have been avidly reading the messages in the hope that I would find some connections to my FOD family. Alas, no such assistance has materialised. Hence this message to the list.

Hello Folks, Is there SKS who could look up 1841 FOD census for the following family found in the 1851 Census? 222444 1851 CENSUS HO107/2444 FF.0351-0367 ED.5L COLEFORD 1 Piece: 2444 Folio: 0363 Schedule: 070 Address: Lydbrook WEBB Isaac Head.M 42 Labourer :born- GLS Horsley (c.1809) WEBB Eliza Wifr/ M 41 : born-WIL Chipenham (c1810) WEBB William Son. Unmar, 19 Labourer : born - GLS Horsley c1832) WEBB Mary Ann Dasu.U 17 - :b born- GLS Horsley (c1834) With TIA Regards, Peter Webb (born c.1920

Daryl "In Rod Neep's CD-Book GB0058, "The Forest of Dean - 1858" by H G Nicholls, there is a map of the Forest at the end. In the bottom right hand corner, between Blakeney and Blakeney Hill Enclosure is Gibraltar." In the National Archive ( Kew) :- " Indenture of Lease by the Commissioners of Woods to Henry Clark of a Stone Quarry at Gibraltar Hill in Blakeney Walk in the Forest of Dean, Co. Gloucester, to which is annexed a Grant of the same by Henry Clark to James Powell 1860 Nov. 7 " The family are in Section 11 of East Dean 1851 - which appears to be Blakeney 161 BIRT James 50 Coal Miner Newland Elizabeth 40 Brecon, Brec: : Mary Ann 14 Newland Thomas 12 Coal Miner West Dean James 9 Scholar West Dean Samuel 7 Scholar East Dean Matilda 2 East Dean Rhoda 5m East Dean The area is covered with old stone quarries and lime kiln sites. Howbeach Level Coal mine is couple of miles up the valley. In 1881 James Jnr appears to be living on New Road (Blakeney ?) which would be current Postcode GL15 4DD. Perhaps near the old Victoria Inn ( landlord in 1881 William Wilkes). New Road is the road from Nibley just south of Blakeney on the A48, up towards Parkend, following the dismantled railway . Furnace Bottom on the left and Blakeney Hill on the right. if you look around OS ref SO655072 you are probably in the right area. hope this helps S

Since joining the list some four months ago, I have been avidly reading the messages in the hope that I would find some connections to my FOD family. Alas, no such assistance has materialised. Hence this message to the list. When a raw beginner in family history research, I was given some family details by a relative who lives in Hereford, and despite my best efforts I have been unable to build upon them. Briefly, the details of my forbears are as follows - In 1755 John JONES, my GGG Grandfather married Ann HORROOD at English Bicknor. They had the following children: John, b.& d. 1758; my GG Grandfather William, b.1761; Richard, b.1765; James, b. & d. 1766; and Sarah, b.1768. All the births are recorded as at LYDBROOK. Then in 1790 GG Grandfather William married Sarah SUFF and they had the following children, again all the births being recorded at LYDBROOK – My G Grandfather John JONES, b.1791; William, b.1795; Jane, b.1800; Mary, b.1802; Richard, b.1806; William, b.1808 and James, b.1811. If anyone can connect to any of the above and thereby throw some light on my benighted family history pathway, I would be most pleased to hear from you. Finally, may I express my thanks to the list for their messages, the contents of which have been most informative. Kind regards, Jim JONES (From a sunny Broadstairs in Kent)

Hi all, I have just returned from the Forest of Dean area after spending a few days in the area in which my ancestors lived, the arae is truly beautiful. My interest in the family has now been rekindled, and I wish to progress. The 1851 census shows my ancestors James Birt living with wife Elizabeth at an address given simply as Gibraltar, Gloucestershire. I am sure that this is somewhere in the Blakeney area, and I would like to know if someone out there could please have a look for them on the 1861 census hopefully at the same location? To help, the children were named as Mary Ann, Thomas, James, Samuel, Matilda and Rhoda. Grateful for any help. Regards, Daryl Jones.

Can anybody help with entries in 1861/1871 censuses for Susan Aston b 1856 became Susan Marshall September 1875 (married William Marshall). Were living in Coleford. Also her father James Aston b circa 1836. Thanks David

Hi Could someone do a lookup, please of the Westbury on Severn 1861 census for a James JONES aged 20 to 25 born in Lydbrook thank you Sylvia _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

Hi Sylvia West Dean was in Monmouth Supt. Registrar's District. This is one of those districts which has places in more than one county (in this case, MON, GLS and HEF). Because of this you will find West Dean in the Monmouthshire run of piece numbers, not the Gloucestershire one. East Dean is easier - it was in Westbury on Severn Supt. Registrar's District, which was entirely in GLS. David in Hertford, England

Hi Can someone tell me please in what registration district East and West Dean are in the 1861 and 1871 censuses? Sylvia _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

Hi there here is my surname interest. Meek Forest of Dean, Newent. Hill Aston Ingham. Baggs F O D Price llantillio Creceny. Nash Coleford Fetter Hill. Margaret Meek Doncaster

Hi there here is my surname interest. Meek Forest of Dean, Newent. Hill Aston Ingham. Baggs F O D Price llantillio Creceny. Nash Coleford Fetter Hill. Margaret Meek Doncaster

On the Forest of Dean Genealogy Pages, we have a searchable Guestbook/Message page. May be you have a query or you just want to say that you have called by. Whatever it might be we welcome you to leave a message or search the past messages. Give it a try, somebody out there might just have the answer to your query. Also, on the web pages you will find links to useful Information relating to the Royal Forest of Dean and surrounding areas of Gloucestershire Forest of Dean Genealogy Pages http://members.iinet.net.au/~davwat/royalfor/ Hope you come and visit us soon David Watkins

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