Pages tagged as "Hemmings"

Diary entry: 20 Jun 2025: This week we visited Risca and the Gwent Archives to search for more clues about the origins of Joseph Ximenes and to give us an opportunity to get more familiar with the local area. ...
Diary entry: 28 May 2025: I wrote to Steve Veysey on Facebook today. He runs the Risca Past & Present Facebook group and has also written a book The Fallen of Risca Parish in WW1 which details the soldiers born in Risca who died in the Great War. ...
Diary entry: 27 May 2025: We’re planning a trip to South Wales to do some research on Joseph Ximenes and Bridget Dineen. ...
Diary entry: 25 Mar 2025: Estimating Joseph Ximenes’ Ethnic Origins I thought I would take another look at the possible ethnic origins of Joseph Ximenes. ...
Person: Louisa Hemmings (1876–1913): Louisa was born on 2 Aug, 1876 in Newtown in Mynyddyslwyn, Monmouthshire, Walesa1, the eldest daughter of Joseph Ximenes (1840–1880)★, a labourer at coal pit, and Bridget Dineen (1842–1898)★, a house servant. ...
Diary entry: 21 Jul 2024: I noticed that Ancestry have added scans of the Gwent Workhouse Registers from 1833 to 1957 so I took a brief look to see what I could find. ...
Diary entry: 9 Mar 2023: I came across an interesting story from Usk, Monmouthshire. A Spanish sailor named Yusaf Garcia was tried for murdering five members of the Watkins family in 1878. ...
Diary entry: 17 May 2021: Today I thought I would order copies of all the wills that we have found probate records for. ...
Diary entry: 12 Apr 2021: I used the Archi online mapping service to look at the location of Full Moon cottages near Risca. ...
Diary entry: 1 Mar 2021: I retrieved some backup copies of Jeff’s research diaries to replace some that had been corrupted. Reading through the 1992 diary I was reminded of the Chile-born Patrice Herrera that we found living in Tredegar Street, Risca in 1871. ...