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Ivy

Ivy Report 19 Jun 2008 06:47

Well done Margaret - I abandoned the search yesterday after finding nothing on the family search site.

Carol, Pauline may be one of the four other people on this site who have Leonard Train in their tree (Julie, Maureen, Michael and Pauline).

Go to the "search trees" button near the top of this page to find their names - you can contact them by clicking on their name.

Battenburg

Battenburg Report 19 Jun 2008 05:30



1891 Wales census mistranscribed
Leonard Frain 1852 United States
Alice wife 1854 Poplar Middlesex

address 24 Potter St Newport Mons.

You need to buy Leonard Trains marriage cert which hopefully will have a fathers name

Or contact Pauline Lewis59 who added the correction on Ancestry on the 1901 census. Her grandmother is Alice Train born c1892

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 19 Jun 2008 03:36

1881 census
108 West Ferry Rd., All Saints, Poplar, Tower Hamlets,
Francis Ward, head, 65, retired builder, born Widford, Herts
Amelia, wife, 65, born Kenninshall, Norfolk
Walter Ward, son, unmarried, 32, cabdriver, born Kings Cross, Middlesex
*Alice Train, dau, married, 27, born Millwall, Middlesex

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 19 Jun 2008 03:24

Free BMD:
Leonard Train married Alice Ward, 1st. quarter 1878, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire. (11a 248)

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 19 Jun 2008 03:16

According to the 1901 census his wife Alice was born 1855 in Millwall, London.

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 19 Jun 2008 02:59

I came across this when I googled his name:

leonard TRAIN

Country: USA
State: portland
Date Submitted: June 18, 2006

Notes:
the above man, born 1853, married an alice ward, born 1855, in cardiff, wales, in 1878. they were my great-grandparents. their daughter, my grandmother, was born in newport, monmouthshire, wales, in 1892. i cannot find out where he was born and no nothing about him, except that he was a seaman.

Database #: 41891
Submitter Email:

Could it be the same man?
I couldn't find anything about him on Familysearch, not on US 1880 census either.

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

Carol

Carol Report 18 Jun 2008 20:28

My great grandfather Leonard Train was born in 1853 and is shown on 1901 census as being a seaman born in Portland U.S.A. he married my great grandmother in the late 1890's, and stayed in the U.K, but I cannot find out how to trace him, there is more than one Portland in the U.S. and all I know is his birth year, anybody have any ideas. Thanks Carol