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Re: Richards/Roberts of Maerdy/Ferndale

PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:37 pm
by JohnPitt
mbutcher wrote:Sorry John, I didn't read your previous posting properly. I wonder if our two soldiers enlisted at the same time? Herbert Richards enlisted at Porth but I have no idea when.

Malcolm


Sorry Malcolm don't really know much more my Gfather died when I was two years old.

Here's that family snap. Little girl is my mother taken around 1916/17



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Re: Richards/Roberts of Maerdy/Ferndale

PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:19 am
by mbutcher
John,

That's a great photo; exactly the kind of thing I'd like to get hold of for Herbert. To that end I have started another strand on the forum looking for Evans of Ferndale.

Malcolm

Re: Richards/Roberts of Maerdy/Ferndale

PostPosted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:06 am
by JohnPitt
You are up against it due to a popular surname.
If you have not joined "ancestry.com", you get a weeks free use I think, try going through the census records.