on 11/1/05 4:32 pm, Vaughan Lewis at meganvaughan@sympatico.ca wrote: > >> >> My gggrandfather, John Aveston ( sometimes spelled Aviston ) was age >> 30 in the 1841 census living in Dale and was a Lighthouse keeper. He >> apparently spent his entire working life at St.Ann's Head, and >> described himself in the 1881 census as " Superannuated Lighthouse >> keeper ". >> >> Does this mean that he had a pension or that he was merely retired ? >> If a pension, does anyone know how much ?. Also, can anyone tell me >> what an annual salary was for a keeper in those years. He and his >> family lived in a cottage that went with the position; was it rent >> free?. I have a great colour picture of the lighthouse and these >> cottages, which were built very close to this lighthouse which is >> believed to be the first established in Wales, the present one being >> built in 1844 along with the keepers cottages. >> >> Incidentally, I 've had no luck finding either his birth or death >> dates. He married Mary Bowen of Clarbeston July 1/1832. >> >> I will be most grateful for any information one can provide or details >> of a source I could pursue. >> >> In hope. >> >> Vaughan (Narbett) Lewis. Hello Vaughan George Aveston married Sarah Rees in 1800 and John Aveston married Margaret Hart. both in Dale, so I imagine their children were baptized there. The registers are at the National Library, Aberystwyth. There were Avistons in Dale in 1891 and Vaughan Aveston aged 26 and Willhelmine Aveston aged 16, both born LLanstadwell, were living in High Street Llanstadwell in 1891 with their step father Thomas Jones (born Tenbury, WOR) and his wife Jane (born Llangwm). Do you know which Aveston Jane was married to? Gerry Lewis