Gorse Bant

[ctdavies]

Can anyone please help me with the location of Gorse Bant in Pantygog. It has been incorrectly spelt Gorse Bank in some newspapers. Family lived there during WW1 but I cannot find it on modern maps or in the 1939 Register. Did it change its name or was it absorbed into a longer street?

Thank you

Colin T Davies

[magsvs]

Is it on the 1911 census? My mind (for some reason) went to Gloucester Buildings or Thorton Crescent, are they on the 1911? Wish there was some record of the order in which the streets were built

[ctdavies]

Thank you,

I will work my way through the 1911 census and see if there is any clue as you suggested.

Thanks again

Colin

[magsvs]

I've just googled, found one reference to Gorse BanK in an article in the Glamorgan Gazette dated Friday Sept. 24th 1915, no clues there tho', but worth a look as it says Bank rather than Bant, tried the census for 1911 and 1901 but no luck, it may need a more thorough search tho'. If you find where it was, please post it, it annoys me when I can't find a street, have one in my own family tree, found on a census, but can't remember who the person was that I was researching at the time, so may when I find that person/census (to double check address) ask on here about that too. Good luck.

[ctdavies]

Hello MAGSVS

I tried your suggestion and trawled through the 1911 census page by page by using the known entry for my relations who lived in Gorse Bant.

It appears to relate to two houses in Cuckoo Street, both occupied by my family; and these are the only references I can find. They appear in the 1911 census between Nos. 30 and 34 Cuckoo Street.

Now my cousin in the USA has a photo of a double marriage which took place in 1908 and seems to have been taken outside of a pair of semi-detached villas which may have been in Cuckoo Street, will have to wait and see if its the same place.

Thank you again

Best wishes for to you and all in the GVHS

Colin.

[ctdavies]

Hello MAGSVS

I tried your suggestion and trawled through the 1911 census page by page by using the known entry for my relations who lived in Gorse Bant.

It appears to relate to two houses in Cuckoo Street, both occupied by my family; and these are the only references I can find. They appear in the 1911 census between Nos. 30 and 34 Cuckoo Street.

Now my cousin in the USA has a photo of a double marriage which took place in 1908 and seems to have been taken outside of a pair of semi-detached villas which may have been in Cuckoo Street, will have to wait and see if its the same place.

Thank you again

Best wishes for to you and all in the GVHS

Colin.

[ctdavies]

Hello again

The article you mentioned as being in The Glam Gazette may have referred to a railway accident in which the lady victim died of shock after the injuries she received. This lady was relative of mine and I have sent a copy of both the Inquest and Obituary from the Gazette to her descendent in the USA.

Thanks

Colin

[magsvs]

ctdavies- thank you for posting where the Gorse Bant was listed in the 1911 census. It was the report of the Railway accident that I found in the Gazette.