On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:37:28 +0200, john <john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> wrote: >On 30/07/2013 16:57, Norma Clay wrote: >> On Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:25:28 AM UTC-5, Norma Clay wrote: >>> I ask before, I ask again. Is anyone here from Fish Guard, Wales ? >>> My 5x great Grandfather left there in 1650. >> >> No problem. Just wonder if there is any member of the Job family >> still there.My ancestors' name was Andrew Job. He was a Quaker; I >> guess that there was religious prosecution of them they caused him to >> immigrate to America.He sent his son ( born at sea) back to England >> to be educated. He returned to Pennsylvania. The nest generation, >> Moses, went to fight in the American Revolution. He was then expelled >> from the Quaker meeting.I guess you don't understand the # of >> generations as I am older than dirt. I am 82. >> >If you search at www.192.com (fees charged for results after 2002) >or the Electoral Register at www.findmypast.co.uk (subscription or >chargeable credits for 2002-2013) for Job surname in Dyfed (the county >Fishguard is in) > It is in Pembrokeshire, Welsh local government was re-organised (again) in 1996. 192's breakdown of records into sub-national areas is not that accurate WRT current areas but unlike Ancestry it does usually manage to put places into a county/region/whatever that they actually were in at some time. >you will find about 30+ individuals with the Job >surname, including a few in Fishguard itself. > >Individuals have to register for the Electoral Roll but after 2002 you >could opt out of being included in public databases.
On 30/07/2013 19:13, Charles Ellson wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:37:28 +0200, john > <john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> wrote: > >> On 30/07/2013 16:57, Norma Clay wrote: >>> On Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:25:28 AM UTC-5, Norma Clay wrote: >>>> I ask before, I ask again. Is anyone here from Fish Guard, Wales ? >>>> My 5x great Grandfather left there in 1650. >>> >>> No problem. Just wonder if there is any member of the Job family >>> still there.My ancestors' name was Andrew Job. He was a Quaker; I >>> guess that there was religious prosecution of them they caused him to >>> immigrate to America.He sent his son ( born at sea) back to England >>> to be educated. He returned to Pennsylvania. The nest generation, >>> Moses, went to fight in the American Revolution. He was then expelled >>> from the Quaker meeting.I guess you don't understand the # of >>> generations as I am older than dirt. I am 82. >>> >> If you search at www.192.com (fees charged for results after 2002) >> or the Electoral Register at www.findmypast.co.uk (subscription or >> chargeable credits for 2002-2013) for Job surname in Dyfed (the county >> Fishguard is in) >> > It is in Pembrokeshire, Welsh local government was re-organised > (again) in 1996. 192's breakdown of records into sub-national areas is > not that accurate WRT current areas but unlike Ancestry it does > usually manage to put places into a county/region/whatever that they > actually were in at some time. > >> you will find about 30+ individuals with the Job >> surname, including a few in Fishguard itself. >> >> Individuals have to register for the Electoral Roll but after 2002 you >> could opt out of being included in public databases. If you use Pembrokeshire in a 192.com search you get "multiple locations found and a choice of West Glamorgan or Dyfed.