On a personal note for those of you who just watched Land of Dreams on BBC2 coming from St Davids and the life of Derek Rees. I have to mention with pride that Derek is my brother. For others of you who may know that I am at present transcribing the 1871 Pembrokeshire Census, I thought you might enjoy a few snippets I have come across recently. My first set of triplets in Llanstadwell, the Burgess family, Thomas, John and Isobel Aged 2. In Amroth James & John Beynon, two brothers 57 & 52 years old, both sadly deaf and dumb from birth. In Llandissilio Martha Griffiths Age 28 a single servant on a farm, leaving for America. And finally for now in Marros, Hannah Davies and her son David aged 11. Hannahs occupation says deserted by her husband so now a pauper and to top it all she says her son is an Idiot. I do not think she was very happy on the day the enumerator called! Should I come across more snippets I think you might find interesting as I type my way through the parishes of Pembrokeshire and surrounding Carmarthenshire and Cardigan borders I will post them and hope you too will enjoy them as I do. -------------------------------------------------------- Sylvia Birch sylvia@cenquest.co.uk PEMBROKESHIRE Census on Line www.cenquest.co.uk

Hi Syliva Good to know the 1871 transcribing is progressing and thanks very much for sharing these snippets with us Gareth Admin for the Rootsweb DYFED, CGN & PEM lists Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ Lookup Exchange http://home.clara.net/tirbach/lookup.html Help Page http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html Cwmgors/Waun http://www.tytwp.plus.com/Waun/Waun.html . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvia Birch" <sylvia@cenquest.co.uk> To: <WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 8:40 PM Subject: [WLS-PEM] Land of Dreams and 1871 > On a personal note for those of you who just watched Land of Dreams on > BBC2 coming from St Davids and the life of Derek Rees. I have to mention > with pride that Derek is my brother. > > For others of you who may know that I am at present transcribing the 1871 > Pembrokeshire Census, I thought you might enjoy a few snippets I have come > across recently. > My first set of triplets in Llanstadwell, the Burgess family, Thomas, John > and Isobel Aged 2. > In Amroth James & John Beynon, two brothers 57 & 52 years old, both sadly > deaf and dumb from birth. > In Llandissilio Martha Griffiths Age 28 a single servant on a farm, > leaving for America. > And finally for now in Marros, Hannah Davies and her son David aged 11. > Hannahs occupation says deserted by her husband so now a pauper and to top > it all she says her son is an Idiot. I do not think she was very happy on > the day the enumerator called! > > Should I come across more snippets I think you might find interesting as I > type my way through the parishes of Pembrokeshire and surrounding > Carmarthenshire and Cardigan borders I will post them and hope you too > will enjoy them as I do. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Sylvia Birch sylvia@cenquest.co.uk > PEMBROKESHIRE Census on Line > www.cenquest.co.uk > > > ==== WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE Mailing List ==== > South/West Wales Lookup Exchange > http://home.clara.net/tirbach/lookup.html > > > >