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Category: Blackmore

The Blackmore family of Somerset and Llanelli

Great great grandfather James Blackmore (1835-1902) was among thousands of agricultural labourers who left the land during the industrial revolution of the mid…

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  • A database of more than 5,300 people related to or associated with my ancestors, many of them potters from Staffordshire and farmers from Somerset. They were among thousands of people who moved into Llanelli in the nineteenth century as it grew from a town of just 140 houses in the early nineteenth century into the industrial town in which I grew up during the nineteen sixties and seventies.  In order to find your relatives search on the name index or surname index above.
    Information on the living has been removed.  There may be errors and omissions.  If your family are here and you can fill in any gaps please get in touch.

  • Acknowledgments

    ·  My mother, the late June Sinclair for inspiring this project and putting her family history to paper 
    ·  The late Huw Gareth Griffith for his research on the Griffith and Jones families of Lleyn 
    ·  John Morgans for his research on the Williams family of Criccieth and Llanystumdwy 
    · The late Peter Spearing for his research on the Anthony family 
    ·  The late Peter Lloyd Morris, Peter Blackmore and Phil Newick for their research on the Blackmores 
    ·  The late Vernon Hurford for his research on the Hurford and Toft families 
    ·  The late Hilary Kidd, Steve Larwood, Derek Sunners and Sandy Peach for research on the Dewsberry family 
    ·  Gareth Hicks and the late John Dossor for research on the Evans family of Llanddeusant 
    ·  John Jardine for research on the Chappell family 
    ·  Christine Gover for research on the Thomas family of Llanelli 
    ·  Carol Barry for the Jones family bible 
    ·  Sue Lowe and Diane Wyatt for research on the Guest family of Australia 
    ·  Chris Smart for research on the Barnes family of Ubley 
    ·  Geoff's Genealogy 
    ·  Stuart Jebbitt for research on the Jebbitt and Wessel families 
    ·  Brian Bridge for research on the Guest family. 

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