Veneita It is relatively unlikely that the death of a baby would appear in the Western Mail unless either there were dramatic circumstances (like scalding or drowning accidents) or the family were middle-class or otherwise well-known. Llanbradach was very much a colliery village with a railway running through it, and a few scattered farms up on the hill. Searching a daily newspaper with six editions a week and somewhere around sixteen pages is a very long job, especially on microfilm. Even knowing the date of an accident and subsequent inquest it has taken me the best part of an hour to go through all the possible places in the paper that there might have been a report, when looking for a lister on the Glamorgan list not long ago. I assume that you will have seen on FreeBMD the death in June quarter of 1914 in Pontypridd registration district ( which covered Llanbradach), of Emily M STEVENS age 0 ref 11a 531. The most straightforward way to get details of this death is to order a copy of the certificate online from the GRO. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ Follow the link below the search results which says 'Click here to learn what to do now.' to find a link to the GRO online ordering facility. Once you have the death certificate if you make the date known then it might be possible to look on the next few days' papers, but putting a notice in a conservative-leaning paper like the Western Mail, published in Cardiff, would really not appear likely to have been a response of a working-class family in a mining community 10 miles away in their grief at losing a child. I note that there was a death of an Emily STEVENS aged 43 in March quarter 1913 in Cardiff registration district. I wonder whether the baby was named after a recently-deceased female relative, or whether this is just coincidence. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Veneita Maynard" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [MON] News Items APRIL !st to JUNE 30th 1926. NumberOne-Hundredseventy. Hello John I hope you don't mind if I ask you but is it possible you could please look for a funeral of a baby called Emily May Stevens died 1912 or 1914 Llanbradach parents Hannah and George Stevens Regards Veneita
Thank you Jeff Veneita ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Coleman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [MON] News Items APRIL !st to JUNE 30th 1926.NumberOne-Hundredseventy. > Veneita > It is relatively unlikely that the death of a baby would appear in the > Western Mail unless either there were dramatic circumstances (like > scalding > or drowning accidents) or the family were middle-class or otherwise > well-known. Llanbradach was very much a colliery village with a railway > running through it, and a few scattered farms up on the hill. > > Searching a daily newspaper with six editions a week and somewhere around > sixteen pages is a very long job, especially on microfilm. Even knowing > the > date of an accident and subsequent inquest it has taken me the best part > of > an hour to go through all the possible places in the paper that there > might > have been a report, when looking for a lister on the Glamorgan list not > long > ago. > > I assume that you will have seen on FreeBMD the death in June quarter of > 1914 in Pontypridd registration district ( which covered Llanbradach), of > Emily M STEVENS age 0 ref 11a 531. The most straightforward way to get > details of this death is to order a copy of the certificate online from > the > GRO. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ Follow the link below the search results > which says 'Click here to learn what to do now.' to find a link to the GRO > online ordering facility. > > Once you have the death certificate if you make the date known then it > might > be possible to look on the next few days' papers, but putting a notice in > a > conservative-leaning paper like the Western Mail, published in Cardiff, > would really not appear likely to have been a response of a working-class > family in a mining community 10 miles away in their grief at losing a > child. > > I note that there was a death of an Emily STEVENS aged 43 in March quarter > 1913 in Cardiff registration district. I wonder whether the baby was named > after a recently-deceased female relative, or whether this is just > coincidence. > > Jeff > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Veneita Maynard" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 7:33 PM > Subject: Re: [MON] News Items APRIL !st to JUNE 30th 1926. > NumberOne-Hundredseventy. > > > Hello John > I hope you don't mind if I ask you > but is it possible you could please look for a funeral > of a baby called Emily May Stevens died 1912 or 1914 > Llanbradach parents Hannah and George Stevens > Regards > Veneita > > > ------------------------------- > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.426 / Virus Database: 270.14.103/2558 - Release Date: 12/11/09 10:06:00