Re the forwarded message: The are/were two Methodist(Wesleyan) chapels in Treherbert. The English Methodist in Dunraven Street is still a functioning chapel. The Welsh Methodist(Saron) was located quite near at the end of Dumfries Street. That was demolished many years ago. The Wesleyan chapels are organised into circuits so the records could be listed in the circuit rather than the chapel. The English circuit was Rhondda, Tonypandy and renamed Rhondda & Ely Valley in 1967. The Welsh circuit was Treorchy, later Treorchy & Caerau. The local cemetry for Treherbert is in Treorchy. I believe that the Treorchy reference library has an index of burials. It also holds a complete run of The Rhondda Leader, the local weekly newspaper for the area. The Western Mail would be the daily source. Hope this helps ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Coleman" <Jeff.Coleman@ntlworld.com> To: <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> Cc: ""Katie Thomas"" <katiet223@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 7:13 PM Subject: [GLA] Fw: Edited message > Please reply to "Katie Thomas" <katiet223@yahoo.com> as well as to the > list. > >>From FreeBMD www.freebmd.org.uk it appears that Gabriel T DRAKES was >>born > in Pontypridd registration district in 1912 and in 1943 married > Eluned M. THOMAS. So far FreeBMD has only one birth of a child with the > surname DRAKES whose mother's maiden name was THOMAS, in 1947, but there > may > have been more in years that have not yet been transcribed. > > Another online source gives a death for Eluned Mair DRAKES in 1991 in > Pontypridd Registration District and of Gabriel Theophilus DRAKES in 1975 > in > the same district. I suspect that there may be a living granddaughter with > middle name Eluned recorded in more recent birth indexes. > > Treherbert was in Pontypridd registration district at the relevant dates. > > It is likely that Katie will welcome any information about the occupation > of > 'screenman', about Ocean Colliery and about Wesleyan Methodist places of > worship in or near Treherbert, as well as likely burial location > (Trealaw?) > and in what publications if any an obituary or death notice may have > appeared shortly after 20th October 1955. > > There appear to be some relevant Wesleyan records ( simply listed as > Methodist after Methodist Union in 1932) held at Glamorgan Record Office, > listed at http://www.glamro.gov.uk/adobe/noncon.pdf > > As the list contains members in all parts of the world it is probably best > to use the names of months, or abbreviations for them, rather than purely > numeric dates in the UK (20/10/1955) or US (10/20/1955) styles. > > Jeff > list admin, Glamorgan list > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Katie Thomas" <katiet223@yahoo.com> > To: <glamorgan-admin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 2:28 PM > Subject: Edited message > > >> Hi Listers, >> >> I am seeking info. on/contact with descendants of William Thomas >> (1876-1955) and family of Treherbert. 'Will' Thomas was the son of Robert >> and Margaret Owen Thomas of Anglesey. Between 1894-1910 he served with >> the >> Royal Welsh Fusileers. On 11/18/1904 in Caernarvon he married Jane Mary >> Jones. Will and Jane had four known children born bet. 1905-1914; >> William, >> Robert, Gwladys,and Eluned. Following his Army service Will moved to this >> area to work in the collieries. He passed away 10/20/1955 in Treherbert. >> He was listed as a retired screenman at the Ocean colliery and living at >> 43 Kenry St. The informant was listed as Mrs. Gabriel T. Drakes of >> Treherbert. >> >> I'd like help to identify local cemeteries where the family members may >> be >> buried. In his military records Will's religion was listed as Wesleyan. >> Does anyone have a suggestion of which cemetery they may be buried, and >> where I can find burial listings for the local cemeteries? >> >> Thanks. Katie, NY, USA katiet223@yahoo.com >> > > > -- > > To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be > found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >