Hi Jill
Now there are two of us.
Phil

Hi Jill & Phil

Fancy meeting you here !

Bob Sanders

This reminds me of one of my favourite films with Kevin Costner (Field of dreams)
If you build it they will come.
So you have built it and they will come.

Anyway back to genealogy and North Somerset. I can't remember if I ever scanned my wife's grandfather's funeral notice in the local papers here in Sunny south Wales.Most of the people on it seem to have come from Yatton.

Hi Bob in cognito how are things with you.
I did get a phone call a while back from an old aquaitance that is searching for the Lucas family. He had heard that you were no longer with us.
So glad you still are.

Oh and Jill I forgot to answer your question.
Things with me are great became a grandfather again six months ago the new one is called Mia Rossetti Jones.Thats five so far.
Don't get to get to a library or a records office these days as I am back working weekdays. Things might change when the new records office opens in Cardiff, and hopefully it will open on Saturdays.

Phil

Yes I am still around ! Don't know why he/she thought I wasn't.

My interests in Bristol area are mostly my wife's family and some descendants of the Deeres & Loves of Glamorgan that migrated to Bristol.

Bob

I forgot to mention the Webleys of Berkley area in my list of interests.
Bob

Hi Bob
It had to do with a funeral anouncement in the South Wales Echo listing a Robert Sanders.
An old guy who used to live next door to my grandmother who knew my father and rings me occaisionally on family history stuff (Mainly Blandford Lucas a Cardiff pilot) Said shame that Bob Sanders has passed away.
I won't name him cos he is a daft old sod well into his 80s

Jill where's Charles

Phil

I know who you mean. His brother lives around the corner from my sister in Rhiwbina. Hopefully now he won't ring me every-so-often to see if I have any more on Blandford Lucas !

OK - I think I have joined. It is 1:44 pm my time and so I am still at work

Jill

No ORGANs connected to my WEBLEYs I am afraid.

Bob

Bob you have got him.
I actually enjoy his phone calls as I get to ask questions on old Rhiwbina.

Hi Charles
We have corresponed as you and my wife come form the same

Whoops just realised I can't hit enter to go down a line.
As I was saying my wife and yourself come from the same Beacham dynasty

My own family links to North Somerset are mainly Bristol area. The names are Scorey and Furze.
For many years I had a dilema whether I was actually a Roderick because my GGGG Grandfather Roderick had shacked up with a woman called Scorey who had kids. Recentley I have found her husband had died in 1823 so William Roderick her son really was a Roderick as he was born in Bristol in 1828.

Mark - that is a very nice web site.

On an unrelated matter, I know you don't have obituaries in Somerset like we have in the USA, but when my remaining North Somerset relatives died I had no information on their surviving relatives, and I wondered if there were newspaper notices.
My great-uncle Alfred Beacham died August 7, 1940 (Bathavon 5c 1539) - his wife Emily Jane Bye Beacham died June 1936 (Weston 5c 494).
My great-aunt Rosina Beacham Carter died June 1936 (Weston 5c 543).

On another note - Jill - I have lost the email address of Gordon Dennis Franklin, son of Minnie Perris. I had gotten a GenesReunited request from Vernon as follows:
"My wife is Janet Hollingworth (nee Franklin) daughter to Frederick and a niece of Dennis Franklin whom you mention. Also the others you mention are her cousins etc. Although Fredericks mother was know as Minnie Perris, even to her son Dennis, I do have a copy of her birth certicate showing that her name was actually Parris. We now live in France and can be reached on Email vahollingworth@orange.fr " I wanted to link these two up.

Chuck

Thank you Jill.
My interest in this area is a One Name Study of the surname Gibbins, before 1760, and all it spelling variations in Devon, but this is spilling over into neighbouring counties. I also enjoy working on Ancient Westcountry Familes.

My main interest is in the Blackmore family of Congresbury. Two of my Blackmore great-great-granduncles married two members of Jill's Perris clan, sisters, Amelia and Ellen, at Yatton. I have a second Blackmore line in Holcombe Rogus, Devon. So my interest really extends to all Westcountry Blackmores.

Hi Jill: I will e-mail you directly what I have on the descendants of Ellen and Amelia. Cheers, Thom