Hello all I am new to this list and have joined in the hope someone may be able to provide some answers for a friend of mine. She is looking for any information on Eliza Maria PUDDICOMBE who married Thomas BRIGHT. Eliza was born in St Peters Camarthen around 1824. Her mother was Rebecca Puddicombe (maiden name unknown) listed in the 1881 census as a retired stationer born in Haverfordwest, Pembroke in 1797. She would like to discover her maiden name. Eliza and Thomas bright had a son Thomas SMITH BRIGHT a civil engineer. It seems there were notices in the paper looking for him as he was heir to a title, plus farmland and a castle! He never claimed it though for fear it would cost him money. If anyone has any idea how we are able to verify any of this please please let me know. All I have managed to find so far is an Eliza and Maria Puddicombe, grocers and tea merchants in Camarhen in the 1840s and the author Anne Adaliza Puddicombe 1836-1908 who wrote under the name of Allen Raine from Pembroke.