Mary, Give us some more info on your ggrandmother Sarah MOSES. I found 37 of them in Glamorgan, Wales (that's the county that Cardiff is in) on the 1881 UK census. In several, the father was a miner. What year was your ggrandmother born? Do you have the names of her parents or siblings? Or were they already in the US by 1881, do you know? If they were from Cardiff, you'll be lucky. The Welsh records in Cardiff and Swansea are pretty good. In northern Wales, the records aren't in as good a shape. Try joining the Glamorgan mailing list. The people on it are a lot of fun and they have a good time helping others as well as carrying on a bit. There were more than 21,000 hits on the last name MOSES in the UK. There were 300+ on the last name PIM/PIMM/PYMM. Give me something more to go on and I'm willing to keep working on this. Cindy in Southern California >-----Original Message----- >From: Mary [mailto:mertzeng@netins.net] >Sent: October 06, 2000 5:48 PM >To: NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [NEWGEN] church of england > > >Hi > >Thank you for the responses. I now have some place to start for >search for >the information! > >My great grandmother was born in Wales. Where exactly has not been >specifically determined. There are some relatives that say around Cardiff. >She came over with her parents when she was young. We know her >father was a >coal miner, some family members say he was an inspector of the coal mines. >I'm afraid they have a name that might be pretty common. Their last name >was MOSES. And her mother's maiden name was PIM or PIMM. Then my great >grandmother's first name was Sarah. > >I just recently got a copy of my great grandmother's obit and it mentioned >that she was baptised in the Church of England and thought it might be a >place to look. Since we seem to have some differences in her year of birth >among relatives. > >I am still fairly new to genealogy as I just started this past March and >this is the first family member that I have tried to find information in a >country other than the United States. > >Thank you for your help and suggestions I really appreciate you >folks taking >the time to help this newbie out!! > >Mary > > > > >==== NEWGEN Mailing List ==== >INVITE YOUR NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS TO JOIN THE NEWGEN LIST >NEWGEN-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM (FOR LIST) >MEWGEN-D-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM (FOR DIGEST) > >