Genealogy Chat

Parish Church of St Martin. I have a book of listing for 1813-1924 Baptisms
1813 - 1923 Burials. 1813 - 1820 marriages.

I am happy to look up for you but it would help me if you would PM me as well as putting on here in case I miss it. Just an alert PM would be sufficient.

Nobody need it then?

Ann, what a kind offer. Is there a record for Donald Hill, born October 1913?

Pmd you Christine. I think I have found him this time.

Thank you Ann!

it is him indeed! Donald was my father and this gives me more than I knew before. I didn't know that they lived in Broomfield Street for example , I only knew about a house in Bedwas Road where he grew up. I was also interested to see that Walter was described as a mason. He was a stonemason from Cornwall and went to do building work in the pits in S Wales because of lack of work in Cornwall - obviously he was still proud of his original trade.

Pleased to help Christine

Ann

My family of Venn's, 3 brothers their spouses and children moved from Bedminster to Caerphilly around 1907.

Many of them are buried in St Martins churchyard.
Would be interested in any entries of baptisms & burials post 1907 exist for surname Venn. They all lived on Bedwas Road, Caerphilly.

Thanks

Tony


Venn Dorothy Marion father William miner mother Elsie 5 Oct 1921 46 Bedwas Rd
Olive May father John miner mother Norah 2 March 1922 78 Bedwas Rd
Percy father William miner mother Alice 29 April 1915 82 Bedwas road


Burial
Venn Edna May 29 March 1921 46 Bedwas Rd

No Marriages

Ann

Thanks very much for the information re Venn's

Tony, your Venns and my Hills must have been neighbours in Bedwas Road. They must have moved there when my father was quite young and didn't leave there until 1928. He and his brother went to Pontygwindy school.

Christine, that was a coincidence wasn't it?

Ann, yes it was. I suppose it isn't a very big place though, and was even smaller then. It was probably the area that most of the mine workers lived - even more likely that they would have known each other. I have been racking my brain to try and remember people my father used to talk about, but they didn't all come with surnames, unfortunately.

We have a school group photo somewhere with my father in it. Tony's Percy Venn would have been a couple of years younger, but may well be in it too.
I bet my grandmother would have gone to Edna May Venn's funeral - she was a great one for weddings and funerals!