the one place I would look for records would be those of the church wardens to see if he helped maintain St Mary's church I was taken to use to visit my granny and remember the town well up to 1953 most buildings were of stone Usk Prison (designed by Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807-1880)), built in 1841 on the model of Pentonville paid for from London http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ folow the money trail http://www.monmouthshiregreenweb.co.uk/UskCivicSociety/index.html willbe able to tell you much more HM Borstal, Usk, Monmouthshire was later On 18 Apr 2007, at 02:36, Tanya Davis wrote: > Hello everyone > > I am new to the site and would be interested in finding out any and > all > information available on my fathers side of the family coming from > Usk, > Wales. > > Here is a bit of information that I have from a Welsh birth > certificate for > my Gr. Gr. Grandfather: > > Born 15 May 1841 at Usk > Name: William Price > Father: Edward Price Occupation-Mason > Mother: Martha Price (Maiden name: Morgan) > Edward Price was the person that gave the information for the Birth > Certificate. He listed his address as Church Street and information > was > gathered on 2 June 1841. > > William came to the US sometime before 21 May 1872, have been > unsuccessful > in finding any information about where he traveled from in the UK > and when > exactly. > he may have travelled from Liverpool to Canada and then south what work did he do? by this time bricks were being made locally one brick works in Raglan was owned by John Jones my Usk Granny's who leased the ground from the Beaufort Estate so there may be estate accounts of work done in Usk and who was paid for it > I would be interested in finding out if there are still houses on > Church > Street and how to find out exactly where they lived and also would > be most > interested in finding out about any buildings that might have been > constructed by my gr. Gr. Grandfather. Would there be any information > available about Masonry guilds?? > google maps Church St Usk, Monmouthshire NP15 UK http://maps.google.com/maps?num=100&hl=en&q=usk+%22church+street% 22&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&om=1&z=19&ll=51.702499,-2.901807&spn=0.001287,0.0021 59&t=h&iwloc=addr behind the church is the Priory purchased by Thomas Watkins (my great uncle) when the Beaufort estate was broken up and renovated into a victorian house more work for masons NB on older houses the original roof was of blue slate newer houses have red tiles in the satellite photo http://maps.google.com/maps?num=100&hl=en&q=usk+%22church+street% 22&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&om=1&z=18&ll=51.699028,-2.900509&spn=0.002573,0.0043 18&t=h is Usk Prison the cattle market used to be opposite and is now a car park go to http://maps.live.com/ get wales on the page enter church street usk and the marker is at the other end to gogle Hybrid is best not as good as google maps http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familyalbum/kusk.htm 1901 Jones William, mason, Castle street Williams John Albert, carpenter, Church street Davies Frances Maria (Mrs.), Red Lion P.R. Church street 1881 census keyword(s) mason usk 1881 Wales Census about Richard Morgan Name: Richard Morgan Age: 55 Estimated birth year: abt 1826 Gender: Male Where born: Usk, Monmouth, Wales Civil parish: Usk County/Island: Monmouthshire Country: Wales Street address: Church Street <<<<<<<<<< Condition as to marriage: Married Education: View image Employment status: View image Occupation: Mason Registration district: Pontypool Sub-registration district: Usk ED, institution, or vessel: 1 Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Ann Morgan 58 Richard Morgan 55 t Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 5257; Folio: 18; Page: 30; Line: ; GSU roll: 1342265. also masons w Record Fred Morgan Frederick, Elizabeth abt 1862 Raglan, Monmouth, Wales Son Raglan Monmouthshire View Record Frederick Morgan Elizabeth abt 1827 Raglan, Monmouth, Wales Head Raglan Monmouthshire View Record Richard Morgan abt 1826 Usk, Monmouth, Wales Usk Monmouthshire View Record William Morgan Leah abt 1848 Llanvihangel, Monmouth, Wales Head Raglan Monmouthshire View Record William Morgan Mary J. abt 1858 Usk, Monmouth, Wales Son in Law (Head) (Son-in-law) Trevethin Monmouthshire Edward Price Martha abt 1819 Usk, Monmouth, Wales Head Llanbaddock Monmouthshire View Record John Price Eliza abt 1813 Crickhowell, Breconshire, Wales Head Usk Monmouthshire so may be too many sons and not enough work for al Hugh W -- a wonderful artist in Denmark http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ Beta blogger http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks old blogger GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG