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Originally Posted by kiterunner
So this is her in 1891? (followed a link from an ancestry tree)
8 Trebawnog Rd, Llantrisant, Glamorgan
Janet Hopkins Head W 43 Glamorganshire
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Morgan L Porter Boarder M 33 Coal Haulier Breckonshire
Martha J Do Daur (sic) M 26(?) Glamorganshire
Eliza J Do Daur S 3 Do
And there is a birth reg Jul-Sep 1887 Pontypridd (also linked to from that ancestry tree.) Did she really look 19 when she got married?!
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That's Elizabeth Jane and her parents. Took me ages to track them down. These newspaper extracts might help explain why the Morgan Porter's full name got dropped from the marriage certificate.
Husband, wife and lodger: Shocking revelations at Porth
Family Troubles in the Rhondda
As to her age, who knows? I was quite shocked when I saw that she could only have been 13/14 but the 1911 census gives her age as 24 but fudges the length of the marriage to 9 years. Perhaps the Registrar had started his New Year's Eve celebrations early.
04-11-14, 07:10
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