Ray Town School or George St would be the most likely. Records for both have survived and are at the Gwent RO. Nicola Pontypool ----- Original Message ----- From: monmouthshire-request@rootsweb.com To: monmouthshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, 16 February, 2012 8:00:22 AM Subject: MONMOUTHSHIRE Digest, Vol 7, Issue 20 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Help wanted - mining occupation (The Lewis family) 2. Re: Help wanted - mining occupation (Sylvia Morgan) 3. Re: Help wanted - mining occupation (Steve Veysey) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:18:16 +0800 From: The Lewis family <lewisfamily@iinet.net.au> Subject: Re: [MON] Help wanted - mining occupation To: monmouthshire@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4F3B6A48.5020705@iinet.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed G'day List I am stuck again. Have used the Archives Wales site to search for Pontypool school registers for the years 1885 - 1892 when I could reasonably expect my late grandfather to have attended school there. No luck, even though I tried a variety of search strategies.. Let me explain and tell you what I know. On the 1891 Census Hector Lewis is shown as living at 8 Upper Bridge Street and he is shown as scholar. He was born in 1878 so I took a stab at 1887 for a reasonable chance that he would be a pupil at one of the local schools. I realise that Pontypool has changed somewhat from that period but is there someone on the list who might know what school(s) he could have attended. That way I might perhaps narrow my search and strike gold. Of course, the school registers for Pontypool may not have survived from that period. If this is the case, I'd still like to know so that I can stop what will be a fruitless search. Thanks in anticipation Ray Lewis Hazelmere Western Australia