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Thank you everyone for the info posted in response to my query. Mrs Tancock was a widow so was not born under that name. I can't remember any addresses on C'mas cards, don't think I ever saw them. I am investigating the existence of electoral rolls in the pre-war and post war years for that area to try and pin her down. I would prefer to have found out her first name(s) before sending off for random death certs and electoral rolls would give either the full name or an initial (or two). I am now in touch with someone "on the ground" in Treorchy, so will see where that goes.

Thanks again: Susan

I don't suppose you can remember her address from such long-ago Christmas cards?

Here's another possibly helpful page:
http://www.rctcbc.gov.uk/en/leisurelibrariesculture/localhistoryheritage/familyhistoricalsearches/familyhistoricalsearches.aspx#ContacttheRegisterOfficeon

Maybe try contacting whichever of these cemeteries you think is most likely:

http://www.rctcbc.gov.uk/en/communityliving/deaths,funeralscremations/cemeteries-generalinformation/cemeteries-generalinformation.aspx

Ynyswen is a village in the community of Treorchy, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

Ynyswen consists mostly of housing. It has an industrial estate which was once the site of Burberry's factory, one shop, and the Forest View Medical Centre.

The area has several chapels and churches as well as Ynyswen Infant school and Ynyswen Welsh School.

Ynyswen infant's school takes children until the age of 7. From then they must go to a different primary school: usually Penyrenglyn Primary School or Treorchy Primary School. Ynyswen Welsh School is a Welsh-speaking primary school that serves the Rhondda Valley. There is no nearby Welsh-speaking comprehensive school and so pupils mostly attend a Welsh school some miles away.

Name: William John Tancock
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 1908
Event Place: Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales
County: Glamorganshire
Page: 861
Volume: 11A
Affiliate Line Number: 108
Registration Quarter: 1
William John Tancock probably married one of the following people
Name: Elizabeth Mary Hogan
Name: Morris Jones
Name: Winefred Pearce

Annie Doris Tancoc
England and Wales, Birth Index, 1837-1920
birth: 1900 Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales


Florence Irene Tancock
England and Wales, Birth Index, 1837-1920
birth: 1902 Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales


Millicent Tancock
England and Wales, Birth Index, 1837-1920
birth: 1904 Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales


Nancy Tancock
England and Wales, Birth Index, 1837-1920
birth: 1915 Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales

Gwyn - that's a great idea. I will follow that up. As this lady probably died in the 1960s there should still be one or two people who stayed in the village and knew her or knew of her.

My original post that she was in her 60s in 1956 was a typo - it should have read 70s. She seemed like a typical little old lady to me, in a long-ish black dress.

Susan

If there is a Post Office or a long- established pub or village shop in that area, you could try phoning them up and asking if they would display a postcard request for information for you.

I did this for a little Welsh village where my grandmother had lived and where her cottage had since been demolished. I hoped for a photograph of the cottage of my childhood holidays and was lucky enough to be put in touch with an elderly local who had the right contacts, so I got my photo.

Gwyn

Thanks for all that info. I have already found those two deaths and contacted the local library but not heard from them yet. After years of toying around with this particular search I am now throwing out a very wide net (having now retired have have more time to devote to my FH). I can always arrange to have a holiday in the area if I don't found out what I need from a distance!!!

Cheers everyone.

Just to rectify:-
If she was in her 60's in 1956, then she would have been born in the 1890's, not the 1880's.

I think it is Pontypridd

found these 2 after 1956 but a long shot

Death record transcript
Name: TANCOCK, Alice

Registration district: [?] Neath

County: Glamorganshire

Year of registration: 1963

Quarter of registration: Jan-Feb-Mar

Age at death:81

Volume no: 8B

Page no: 558



TANCOCK, Clara J

Registration district: [?] Bridgend

County: Glamorganshire

Year of registration: 1962

Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec

Age at death:84

Volume no: 8B

Page no: 83

Neath seems the nearest

Maddie

There are not too many people with that surname in the area so it is worth doing what Reggie has suggested.

Also, Ynyswen is a very small place and it might be worth writing to the post office or the library there to see if anyone has knowledge of this lady.

Or even the church or cemetery where she might have been buried?

I am sure that some of the 'old locals' would know something of her.

Dea x

P.S. I can't pin down the exact registration district that this place would come under - could anyone help with that please?

Dea x

Does anyone have any knowledge of a lady called Mrs Tancock, a widow, who fostered evacuees in WW2 and lived in the Ynyswen area. I have memories of her when staying with her in 1956. She had cared for my mother for 4 years during WW2. She would have been in her 60s in 1956 as best as I can judge (so b c 1880). She probably died in the 1960s as that was when we stopped getting Christmas cards from her. I have no memory/knowledge of her first name or exactly where she lived though can visualise her street and parts of her house. I was 8 at the time. Long shot, I know!!!