The very first thing I would like to say is thank you to Ann Macy and especially Jeff Coleman for the information and also the advice given. Thank you. I did phone the General Register Office (about 1:00 our time) and talked to a very nice lady, she took all the information plus the request that the father should be Thomas, told me it would be sent with-in seven days. Well, it came today well with-in the time I thought. Mary ASTON was born to Thomas ASTON and Elizabeth ASTON formerly JONES. Thomas was a miner. She was born Blaenavon, Abergavenny, County of Monmouth. Twentysixth of June 1847. Since JONES is a pretty common name I felt I might not be able to find her mothers family but in going through my e-mails that responded to my query there was one that was from Ray Lewis in Western Austrailia who had written to me off-list. It seems his great-uncle Octavius JONES (b Abersychan, Mon. 1882) mentioned a Billy Witchell son whom he had known in Abersychan in his last letter home (he was killed at Galllipoli May 1915). Ray mentions several other Witchells but my eyes glazed over when I read the name JONES. Wish me luck and thank you Ann and Jeff again. Alice California ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Thank you Alice for your kind remarks. Bear in mind that Elizabeth said in a census that she was from Llanfihangel Tor-y-mynydd parish. Now google to find GENUKI Monmouthshire. At the top there is a link to Monmouthshire towns and parishes. Letter L. Llanfihangel Tor-y-mynydd. After the section on Church records there is a link to Mike John's web site, which has some transcriptions of parish records. >From there look for a section on Baptisms covering the dates for Elizabeth (who was 45 in 1851 so born in 1805 or 1806) and you get to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monfamilies/Llanfihangel-Tory-baps-1800-12.htm and there you will find just one Elizabeth JONES matching the date. Seeing the name of her mother was that of one of her daughters, that looks your likely candidate for an ancestor. Look at the other children of John and Martha JONES in that page and the earliest on that page is 1803. I can't see any in the 1790s so look for a marriage in that parish around 1802. I can't find one, so start looking in nearby parishes. Mike has some extremely useful transcriptions for which he deserves credit. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: <GG1531@aol.com> To: <monmouthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 7:43 AM Subject: [MON] Mary ASTON / WITCHELL > The very first thing I would like to say is thank you to Ann Macy and > especially Jeff Coleman for the information and also the advice given. > Thank you. > > I did phone the General Register Office (about 1:00 our time) and talked > to > a very nice lady, she took all the information plus the request that the > father should be Thomas, told me it would be sent with-in seven days. > Well, it > came today well with-in the time I thought. > Mary ASTON was born to Thomas ASTON and Elizabeth ASTON formerly JONES. > Thomas was a miner. > She was born Blaenavon, Abergavenny, County of Monmouth. Twentysixth of > June > 1847. > > Since JONES is a pretty common name I felt I might not be able to find > her > mothers family but in going through my e-mails that responded to my query > there was one that was from Ray Lewis in Western Austrailia who had > written to > me off-list. It seems his great-uncle Octavius JONES (b Abersychan, Mon. > 1882) > mentioned a Billy Witchell son whom he had known in Abersychan in his > last > letter home (he was killed at Galllipoli May 1915). Ray mentions several > other Witchells but my eyes glazed over when I read the name JONES. > > Wish me luck and thank you Ann and Jeff again. > > Alice > California > > > > ************************************** See what's new at > http://www.aol.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >