Ashton Notes by Hugh
Ashton Notes by Hugh
Wow, more information! Helen sent me notes written by her brother Hugh. Mary Elizabeth Ashton, is a sister for my grandmother Maglona.
I now move to my other grandmother Mary Elizabeth Ashton, before she married John Bebb Davies.
Her mother and father were Elizabeth Owens and John Ashton, who were married at the Register Office, Machynlleth on the 27 May 1887. She gives her home at the time as Windsor House, Pentrerhedyn Street, Machynlleth. In census returns as being born in Dolgelley.
John Ashton is a general labourer, and his residence is Tynddol, Llanbrynmair although his family were living at the Terrace in Clatter, where we find them in the 1891 census with John and Elizabeth living next door.
In the 1871 census we find Thomas and Mary Ashton, together with their son John aged 9 at Clatter.
In 1861 they were at Rhiwrefel - he was a railway labourer. Living with them was a Richard Newel, a stepson to Thomas Ashton. In the Llanwnog church register I found the marriage of Thomas Ashton and Mary Newell on the 14 May 1859. He was aged 37, a bachleor of Brynderwen whose father was a manufacturer.
Mary Newell was a widow, aged 38 of Clatter, whose father was John Hughes. Mary was baptised at Llanwnog on 14 January 1821, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Hughes of Llwydcoed.
On the 18 May 1853, the register records the burial of Thomas Newell of Fawnog Fach aged 28. This was surely Mary's first husband.
Thanks Helen & Hugh!
This of course opens a whole new dimension. My understanding of Mary's maiden name (from Free BMD) was wrong, and thankfully the marriage certificate was not ordered. This wedding does not show up on their database at all, which exposes that the database has yet to contain the full BMD index.
Hugh's information provides me with a new lead, for Elizabeth Owens, and the possibility of tracking down her family. I now have a potential location for her, although to look on the 1881 census, although I would like her age when she was married.
The above information does not take into account the 1881 census, where Thomas' father, also called Thomas, was living in the same house as Thomas, Mary and John. This opens up a new generation, and here he was an Agricultural Labourer. Is this something he might have done as he became older? At the time of his son's marriage, he was a manufacturer.
The 1881 census gives me his age, plus the fact that he was born at Trefeglwys. This I tied in with a gravestone at Trefeglwys, which I suspect is his and his wife Jane. However, I need to check this.
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