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Checking the Gloucestershire Records office for Wills

http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/genealogy/Search.aspx

They do hold a Will : William BOWER 1821, Mitcheldean - Will No. 1821/120 - 22 June 1821

FOD records

Burial at Mitcheldean - 13 January 1821 - William BOWER age 60

This may yield family clues!

The census records you sent for Blaenavon area are my family. Joseph PARKER and Mary had three children that I know of: Mary Ann, Thomas and Jane E. Jane E. is my line, marrying Charles DANDO. Mary Ann married William BOWER. I don't know what became of Thomas.

Mary Ann PARKER and William BOWER had a daughter Mary Ann BOWER who married Edmund SAMUEL. This SAMUEL family also came to Pennsylvania. In the 1861 census for Blaenavon showing Mary PARKER - grandmother, age 74, living with Edmund SAMUEL and his wife Mary Ann, she is the grandmother to Edmund's wife, Mary Ann nee BOWER. Mary Ann BOWER's mother was Mary Ann (PARKER) BOWER born abt 1817. All these Mary Ann's can be confusing!

The additional information you sent from Mitcheldean is all new for me. I am looking over all of this new info and seeing how it all fits together! I certainly didn't realize that the BOWER family also had ties to Mitcheldean.

There is so much new information you have sent. I really appreciate you taking the time to do so.

Regards,
Sue Pastore

James BOWER - 28 - born Mitcheldean
Ann - 26
Louisa - 4 (Gloucestershire BDM - mother's maiden name MEEK)
Leach - 3
James - 1
Jonah PARKER - Visitor - 20 ***

***FOD records Christening - 17 January 1830

Jonah PARKER - parents John & Mary : Residence Ruardean Hill

FOD records

Marriage at Newland 6 April 1844

James BOWER - of full age - Bachelor, Collier

father: William BOWER (Sawyer)

married

Ann MEEK (Minor) Spinster residence: Drybrook

father: Joseph MEEK, Collier

witnesses: William and Hannah COWMEADOW

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1841 Census, Glos Dean Forest, Ruardean Hill

PARKER

John - 58 (c1783)
Mary - 45
Leah - 15
Mary - 13
Jonah - 10
Tabitha - 8 - FOD records, marriage at Cinderford - 2 February 1851 - William WILLIS
Piety - 5 - FOD records, marriage at Aston Ingham 25 December 1855 - PICTY PARKER - To James GOODE
Joseph - 4
Mary Ann - 2

Using the Advance Search for baptisms of John and Mary's children they include...

Leah - 7 August 1825, Mitcheldean

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1861 Census East Dean

PARKER

John - 79 - Invalid, born Mitcheldean Glos
Mary - 60 born Farnham
Joseph - 22 - Coal Miner, born Ruardean
Mary - visitor, 12 - born Camberwell

next door (his daughter Leah)

COLBOURNE

Benjamin - 41 -
Leah - 35 + their children

next door

Enoch BOWERY - 41 - Collier born Mitcheldean
wife Emma - 40
and their children

then

Ann Meek - widow

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on Ancestry....

Marriage at Lambeth St Mary - 8 November 1867

Benjamin COULBOURN (Widower) - labourer (both of full age) residence: Caroline Street, father, John COULBOURN (deceased) labourer

married

Leah PARKER - - Spinster, father: John PARKER, (deceased) labourer

witnesses: James & Sarah Ann POTTER

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There is a possibility; Hanna PARKER christened 3 July 1785 - at Mitcheldean : parents Joseph & Mary., could be a sibling of Joseph - In my tree - my x grandmother was listed on christenings of her children - as being Mary or in other cases as Ann (Mary Ann)

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Just beginning to look at this and can see Joseph (Shoemaker) - had a son Thomas and (a daughter Jane E PARKER - your line) who married Charles DANDO in 1838 (Trevethin, Monmouthshire)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monfamilies/trev-marr-d.htm

Tevethin Parish Records Transcripts

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monfamilies/trevethinprt.htm

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'25 November 1838

Charles DANDO x FA, Miner Blaenavon, George DANDO, Collier
Jane PARKER - Minor, Spin. Blaenavon, Joseph PARKER, Shoemaker
John WAYMAN
Thomas PARKER X'

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1841 Census, Llanfoist Mon

DANDO

Charles - 20 - Miner, not born in County
Jane - 20 - not born in County
Isaac - 1 - born in County
Jonathan DANDO - 15 - Miner, not born in County

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1841 Census, Llanover Upper (Blaenavon) Monmouthshire

Joseph PARKER - 50 - not born in County
Mary - 50 - not born in County
Thomas - 20

???

FOD records - baptism at Micheldean - 12 Mar 1816

Thomas PARKER, parents Joseph (Shoemaker)and Mary

1851 Census Llanover, Monmouthshire

Joseph PARKER - 57 - Shoemaker, Journeyman - born Glos. Mitcheldean
Mary PARKER - 60 - born Narberth, Pembrokeshire

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1861 Census, Monmouthshire, Blaenavon
Duke Street

Edmund SAMUEL - 26 - Coalminer, born Monmouthshire, Blaenavon
Mary Ann - 23 - wife (Freebdm - Mary Ann BOWER - marriage to Edmund SAMUEL - J/A/S 1856 - Pontypool District)
Edmund Wm - 1
Mary PARKER, Grandmother - Widow - 74 - Formerly Drefs maker, born Pembrokeshire

? Grandmother to whom (Mary Ann nee BOWER?)

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1851 Census Mon. Llanover, Blaenavon

William RICHARDS - 37 - Plasterer & Tyler, born Monmouthshire Pontypool
Elizabeth RICHARDS - 47 - all born Blaenavon
Sarah SAMUEL - daughter - 22 Dress Maker
Elizabeth SAMUEL - daughter - 20
John SAMUEL - 17 - son
Edmund - 15 - son
William RICHARDS - son - 9
Charles RICHARDS - son - 6
Mary Jane RICHARDS - daughter - 3

1851 Census, Blaenavon

Tram Road

BOWER

William - 33 - Ironstone Miner, born Glos. Mitcheldean
Mary Ann - 33 - born Monmouthshire. Llanover
Mary Ann - 12 - born Trevethin
Margaret - 8
Hannah - 6

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1841 Census, Blaenavon, Llanover - same page as the DANDO's a couple of houses before them.....

BOWER

William - 24 Miner - not born in County
Mary Ann - 24 - born in County
Mary 2 - born in County
William 1 - born in County ****

On the 1871 Census, Monmouthshire, Llanover Upper
Bunkers Hill

William BOWER - 31 - born Llanfoist, Monmouthshire
Margaret BOWER - 27 - born Llanover, Monmouthshire
Enoch BOWER - 20 - unmarried, boarder, Miner, born Harry Hill, Gloucestershire *

* On the 1851 census East Dean with parents Enoch BOWER, age 32, born Mitcheldean, mother Amy, siblings : Ann 9, John 5, Mary Ann - 2 (then Enoch 9 months) - Gloucestershirebdm - childrens' mother's maiden name: TIPPINS
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FOD records

Baptisms at Mitcheldean - 15 June 1817

William BOWRY

parents William (labourer) and Mary

James BOWER - 21 October 1821

parents William (labourer) and Mary

Joseph PARKER born about 1788-1789 later moved to the area of Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales and is found there in the 1841 and 1851 census. He was a shoemaker. The 1851 census gives his place of birth as Mitcheldean. Joseph PARKER died 28 Jul 1856 in Monmouthshire. His death certificate gives his age as 67 years old.

Joseph PARKER would be my gggg grandfather. His daughter Jane PARKER married Charles DANDO and their family came to Pennsylvania, USA in 1848.

I would greatly appreciate any additional information anyone could provide on this PARKER family.

Regards,
Sue Pastore
Florida, USA