Jones / Nash Family

Hi There and thanks for looking at this Family Tree. Many members of my family have been interested in research for quite a long time and I've tried to take the research from everyone and correlate it here so that family members can continue their research.The research is based upon four families who came to live in Merthyr TydfilFlynnThe Flynn families came to Merthyr Tydfil from Kilfinnane near Tipperary possibly via Youghal near Cork,  sometime around 1845 where Thomas Flynn worked as a railway Porter. Nash John Nash came from County Cork and I'm told that his wife, Mary Hayes and her parents came from Rosscarbery. The first generation of the family worked in Agriculture probably on the site where Cardiff International Airport is now located and many in the second generation went to earn their wages in the South Wales Pits.This was the time of the Potato Famine in and the time when many collieries were being sunk in the South Wales vallies and when the Iron and Steel works were exporting to all parts of the British Empire and a time following the completion of  the Taff Vale Railway line from Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil in 1841. On investigating how the Irish came to South Wales, I was told that many of the immigrants from Ireland travelled as ballast on the Welsh coal ships returning from Ireland.Many of the second generation immigrants to South Wales worked in the Coal Mines, and looking through some of the census entries, started work in the mines at around age 13. Three of the Flynn's left Merthyr around the time of the General Strike in 1926 to go to a mining town on the coast south of Sydney, Australia -Wollongong. The photo section shows the ship's documents and there are photos of the ships. I don't think I'd like to spend 6 weeks on board either with another 700 passengers. More information about the Gilbert sisters who married two of the Flynn's and left for Australia can be found on Margaret Allbury's websiteTracing back relatives in Ireland is apparently quite complicated, as the building where the census records were kept, burnt down and only a small percentage were able to be saved.Roberts The Roberts family came from Llanfair-ar-y-bryn, near Llandovery in Carmarthenshire and worked at the Dowlais Iron Works and lived in the nearby Ivor Street.JonesResearching Joneses in Wales, especially if one of them is called David Jones is an almost impossible task but we think that Jacob Jones came to Merthyr via Tredegar.If you know the Email addresses of any relatives who may have some information on the family, please do send their addresses to me and I'll invite them to contribute and read the information which has been collected so far. If you have come across this site and you believe that we have relatives in common, then do please drop me a line.If you have any comments or feedback about this site, please click here to contact me.Our family tree is posted online on this site! There are 4821 names in our family site.The site was last updated on June 19 2024, and it currently has 22 registered member(s). If you wish to become a member too, please click here.   Regards,LawrenceP.S. I also wrote most of the Wikipedia entry on Pentrebach so if you are interested you can click on that link.