status or stock taking

Now we are 102 listers Yahoo! Groups : WELSH FAMILIES
please make a first posting

list one brickwall (eg Mary Jones below)
or some surnames
or your special interests
(mine are one-name study LAPHAM
and JONES restricted to born or resident RAGLAN

or even better for example
your eight grandparents marriages
with details

Thomas Watkins
04 May 1821 Abergavenny
28 Mar 1879 Highmead Farm Llanfair Kilgeddin

= married at St.Davids, Llanarth ? speculative?

Margaret Bill
Bet. 28 Apr 1818 - 1822 Llanarth Mon (1891 Census)
11 Mar 1895 Ty Mawr farm Pontypool 11a 124

Edward Jones
Bef. Jan 1842 Raglan, Mon.
Abt. Jul 1900 Raglan, Mon.?

= 1 Mary Jones Mar 1869 Monmouth 11a 49 ?
1848 Llanvair Mon
Abt. May 1887 Raglan, Monmouthshire

= 2 Helen (Hellen or Ellen) Elizabeth Bliss
Abt. 1868 London or Penrose or ? Gt Tew, Oxford, England
aft 1901 probably London

"the step mother who drank up the family fortune"
and yes that is a good google string too

Alfred Lapham
23 FEB 1843 in Bristol [Somerset sic 1871 census] AMW BB child hand Grandpa,
AFT 1901.

= married 27 Sep 1868 St Andrew's church, Montpelier, Bristol Clifton 6a 190

Fanny Bartley Ball
BET 1836 AND 1837 in Pitchcombe Nr Stroud, Gloucestershire, England,
30 OCT 1920.

Philip Evans
ABT 1839 St Philips Bristol
AFT 1901

= married 06 May 1867 St Philip and St Jacob Parish Church number 499

Elizabeth Walker
born ABT 1842 St Philips Bristol
AFT 1901

I see I need to do more work on the welsh marriages too

still waiting for my suitcase taken in error to Wales from the track at BHX
when I flew home from Copenhagen