spending a couple of days in Wales - stayed overnight at the Lawns Farm B&B in Grosmont again... nice and relaxing...

initial research for this trip was the Newport Reference Library, home of many records for Monmouthshire. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make use of the microfiche or computers - apparently they need to booked and, naturally enough, none were available when I turned up... bummer... I did find out that they can be booked over the 'phone, so I just need to plan a bit better next time. I did, however, manage to look at a few other things - the most interesting of which was an 1861 map of Newbridge. Newbridge is a couple miles north of Abercarn and the place where Dan & Amelia were married. Managed to find the location of the Baptist Chapel - just need to translate this to a modern day map.

spent a morning at the library at the SoG.

Wooo Hooo!! Found the marriage entry for James Jukes and Ellen Margaret Bradley - December quarter of 1899. Just need to fill in the form and lodge it with the Family Records Office next time I'm there...

still unable to find, with confidence, the birth records for Mary or Lavinia Rowland (Amelia's younger sisters). I've found a possibility for Mary - a Mary Hannah born in Swansea but the census record indicates that our Mary was born in Abercarn... might be able to find a more accurate indication from parish records

joined the Society of Genealogists (SoG) - this gives me unlimited access to a lot of microfiche records; Indexes to Births, Marriages, Deaths; the SoG Library