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wonder if someone can please double check to see if they can find a death recorded for a james taylor..my info is he died in 1948 in blackwood..monmouthshire..wales...so far i cant find anything...
hi chris... unfortunately i have no dob..but i think that one would be to old for the the james taylor i am searching for...its a bit of a family mystery im afraid...ideally i would like to also place him in the aston/hockley area round about 1942/43 ....thank you so much for looking....
thats a shame lyn. i thought it might be right as when i typed in blackwood, it came up gwent. had a look at electoral rolls but there are LOADS of james taylors!
i fear i will never sort this one out chris....i put it down for a few months and just decided to have another go...its always possible that your james taylor could be the one although if it is it would mean he became a father in 1943...again this is not impossible...does blackwood come under gwent then as i was told monmouthshire....
to do with the same mystery i am also searching for a lucy harrington on the 1944 e rolls...i know where she was in 43.45.47.48 but not 1944...
what i am trying to find is james taylor and lucy harrington living together....
o dear what have i started again..lol
ps..i forgot to add that janet harrington is the daughter of lucy and most likely james but other than her birth cert and after extensive research by another member of the family we have no trace of her....
Lyn deaths are always so difficult to find especially with common names. I have struggled with my great granny Eliza Yates nee Howell for years. I had a stoke of luck yesterday looking for the resting place of her husband Arthur Yates. Colin found an obituary for him and it turns out he was buried at Aston Parish church. I didn't even look there as I thought it was closed for burial's. The trouble is Yates and Howell are like Smith and Jones in Brum........lol
I hope you find your Taylors.
hi shera
blackwood became gwent in the fifties it became gwent under the boundry changes
including crickcowl and surrounding areas even abergavenny which ran straight through blackwood
we used to watch the german panzers being driven along the blackwood rd in the fifties
regards taylors as you say there was a rake of them one taylor springs to mind in the hockley area was a frank taylor a son in stour st birmingham 18 whom wasbrought up n the area
hi alan...although hockley is the area i am looking for i would have no way of knowing if frank taylor was related to the james taylor i am searching for....