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I have recently been researching my family history and find that my paternal grandfather, Noel Edwards, born 1879 in Brecon, was shown in the 1881 census as living at “The Cock and Horse Inn, 48 The Watton, Brecon”. Noel and his twin sister, Mabel, lived there with their widowed mother, Elizabeth (born 1848) and their brothers, Sidney, born 1874, David, born 1875, and sister, Margaret Elizabeth, born 1877. Their mother, Elizabeth, (my great-grandmother) was the widow of David James Edwards, an engine driver. She was the Innkeeper of the establishment.

Noel moved to Merthyr Tydfil in about 1905 and married my grandmother, Lilian Maud Porter. They had 3 children; my father, Frederick Raymond, born 1918 and his sisters, Phyllis born 1909 and Muriel born 1911. Noel died in 1918 (3 months before the birth of my father) and Lilian later moved to Newport.

The “Cock and Horse Inn” is now known as “The Gremlin”.

Any up-to-date info would be most welcome.

Strong deja vu here.

Edward


What happened to your other post about this?


I think Reggie found lots of info for you....have you kept that?

x

Dear Gins. Reggie told me off for posting my e-mail and telephone number. I have messaged him. All the info he gave me, I already had. I am looking for present-day descendants of my geat-granparents.

Edward

We all tried to help you, and protect your ID.......you gave your email and phone number

Can you post what you have already/what Reggie found and then we can move forward and try to hlep you


What do you wish to find?

There are 2 births for Muriel Edwards in Merthyr so you need to make sure you follow the correct one.


Births Jun 1911

Edwards Muriel - Merthyr T. 11a 924
Edwards Muriel - Merthyr T. 11a 897


Have you looked in Search Trees to see if anyone else has them n their family ?

Mike


Did you see the other info, on the first thread?

Briefly ... but can't say I remember where the research was up to.
Sorry if I'm repeating stuff

You need to delete the other identical thread.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/living_relatives/thread/1310522

Hi everybody helping. I've got all my family right back to 1845. I'm now looking for descendants of my great-grandmother. I've been all through hot matches etc and came on to this site to see if I could get better luck. I've been told off and had a posting removed. Good start then. I'LL PROBABLY QUIT GENES REUNITED AND SIGN UP WITH ANCESTRY UK WHO SEEM A MUCH FRIENDLIER BUNCH TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.

I take 'offence'


........to your comments, we tried to help you

Now come on Edward, I in particular did my utmost to help you - I messaged you immediately I saw your email address and phone number and I advised you to post on "Find Living Relatives" and to check in trees on this site - I cannot believe what you have written - I feel we were extremely friendly and caring towards you and am quite surprised by your posting - I hope you are more polite to people on Ancestry and may I add also, I feel quite ashamed that a fellow Welshman should act in such a manner

I took take offence I think you should apologise at the very least - if you canlt manage an apology I shall have no hesitation in reporting you for an abusive posting - which let's face it - it is abusive

Ann, you have been most helpful as have other people on this site although Reggie made me feel very small! (You probably did not see what he wrote). My gripe is with GR who don't seem to support me. All the people on here have been most helpful. Please do not take offence. I put my mobile phone number and my e-mail address in my posting. OK - so what? The world will not come to an end. GR seem to think I'm Jack the Ripper. If you can re-consider giving me some help, I should be most grateful. Same applies to Gins. Absolutely no offence intended, I am gratified that someone is interested in my quest. I am a most placid person, believe me. Nothing to do with being Welsh - just a laid-back individual trying to get along with life.

To clarify..................

I advised Edward to remove his e-mail and telephone number, which, if he'd read the site guidelines when joining, he would know were not permitted.

I did NOT...repeat NOT report his post.........I gave him the chance to amend it

As he has chosen to vilify me on here, I will copy the PM he sent to me


Thank you once again Reggie for your solicitous attention to my misdemeanour, Since you are not a member of the GR staff, I would ask you not to send messages which purport to give yourself a position of authority or the right to censure us stupid newcomers. Advice is golden, verbal smackings from peers are offensive and inappropriate. GR have contacted me, quite rightly, to advise me of the correct procedure. They have the right to do this - you can only sympathise and shake your head in pity at my stupidity.


I have since received the following PM......................

From: Edward Edwards
6:27 PM
Clarification: Dear Reggie, I now find that there are some worhty people on GR known as "Helpers". If indeed, you are such a helper, then please accept my apologies for castigating your actions. Far be from me any such intention.

My reply.........so there can be no misrepresentation

If you'd 'genned up' on the site first, you'd have known how it operates, and would not have embarrassed yourself by sending such an unpleasant message to me

GR do NOT monitor the boards.....their message to you was as a result of the reporting of your thread by a member



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apology accepted - well to be honest, as far as descendnts go, I can't be much help really - I'm better at digging around the dead!!

By the way all people trying to help me, I can't post what Reggie so thoughtfully provided about my family, because GR have deleted the whole blinking lot. That is part of my gripe with them. There was a lot of info on there and it has now disappeared! How can it be that with such brilliant volunteer helpers they have such a rigid sense of discipline which negates the feelgood factor? They should be on my side - I'm paying for the service - I don't need to be slapped down for some tiny error.

Part of that which was deleted was my advice to look at freebmd and find info about them

Also to use the site's 'search all trees' facility

The census info I posted gave you a time-scale for a couple of them

www.familysearch.org

this is the free Mormon LDS site from which I found what I posted - well worth a look

Reggie, have you read my subsequent message to you re not knowing that you were an official helper? If I''ve done something wrong, I'll take the blame, but only from those who have the authority to censure me. I repeat : Advice is golden, (et seq).