Hello, I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I am looking for information on my maternal Grandfathers family. His name was Harry STIDDER he was born in Glamorganshire Wales, immigrated alone to New Zealand in 1929 and died here in 1990. The information I have is from my mother and is quite sparce. I have been told that his birth was never registered in an oversight by the midwife who had 5 deliveries on the night. His Mother was born ELLEN JONES and married a HARRY JOHN STIDDER who was killed in WW1 in 1916 Ellen used to sing in the Music Halls in Cardiff post WW1 and remarried and EDWARD MORRISEY in 1937 (I have found the marriage record for this marriage). My Grandfather lists her as his next of kin on his NZ WW2 enlistment documents as Ellen Stidder of 66 Cowbridge Road, Glamorganshire, Wales and I have the address of 2 Redlavar Street, Cardiff as being her final residence until her death which was sometime around 1960. My Grandfather also correponded with an uncle in Wales EDWARD STIDDER who was still living when Ellen passed away but contact was then lost. There has also been mention of relations in England by the family name of GRIFFITH. I have searched through Ancestary UK the cencus and free BDM and public member records and apart from the marraige to Morrisey in 1937 cannot find matches for the Stidder men or Morrisey and there are so many Ellen Jones that without some proper dates it is a pointless search. Any recommendations on the best way forward would be greatly appreciated Sonya Raw

Sonya In Ancestry there is a 1911 census entry for an Edward Stidder (shown as ELWARD) age 30 living at 36 Newland Street, Barry Dock ... his profession is that of musician. His wife Gwendolin also 30 is a dancer ......... they are living with a Hopking (Hopkins) family. Given their professions & that of Ellen I wondered if there might be a connection. Helen "Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines ~ it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits" Robin Sloan > Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 00:01:56 +1200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GLA] Looking for information on STIDDER / JONES > > Hello, > > I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. > > I am looking for information on my maternal Grandfathers family. His > name was Harry STIDDER he was born in Glamorganshire Wales, immigrated > alone to New Zealand in 1929 and died here in 1990. > The information I have is from my mother and is quite sparce. > I have been told that his birth was never registered in an oversight by > the midwife who had 5 deliveries on the night. His Mother was born ELLEN > JONES and married a HARRY JOHN STIDDER who was killed in WW1 in 1916 > Ellen used to sing in the Music Halls in Cardiff post WW1 and remarried > and EDWARD MORRISEY in 1937 (I have found the marriage record for this > marriage). > My Grandfather lists her as his next of kin on his NZ WW2 enlistment > documents as Ellen Stidder of 66 Cowbridge Road, Glamorganshire, Wales > and I have the address of 2 Redlavar Street, Cardiff as being her final > residence until her death which was sometime around 1960. > My Grandfather also correponded with an uncle in Wales EDWARD STIDDER > who was still living when Ellen passed away but contact was then lost. > There has also been mention of relations in England by the family name > of GRIFFITH. > > I have searched through Ancestary UK the cencus and free BDM and public > member records and apart from the marraige to Morrisey in 1937 cannot > find matches for the Stidder men or Morrisey and there are so many Ellen > Jones that without some proper dates it is a pointless search. > > Any recommendations on the best way forward would be greatly appreciated > > Sonya Raw > > > -- > > To send to the list send to [email protected] > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > - > 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://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message