The Pugh Family
This is one of the more murky parts of my family tree. Like
the Currans, who I knew little about when starting my family quest, I know almost
nothing about this line, and did not even have the name Pugh attached to it
until recently, when I found Selina Howell's death record on Family Search. I
originally had Selina's parents listed as Hug Roberts and Ellen Griffiths, but
in the record, her mother's name is listed as Pugh. As of yet, that is the only
time I have found the name, so I still have not completely confirmed it, but it
is possible that somewhere a generation or two ago, her maiden name was
confused with another maiden name on this branch, though on a different side.
My grandmother's paternal grandmother was a Griffiths, so it's possible that it
was somehow attached to this woman by accident. Until I find more on her,
though, I have no way of confirming that one way or the other.
Aside from that, I have very little on this line. I have no
parents for Ellen, and no siblings for Selina, so I have no way of tracking
further back at this time. I do know that at the time Selina was born, Ellen
and Hugh lived in Northern Wales. I'm not sure if that was where they were from
or not, or where they might have been born or married, but I continue to look.
Their surnames are distinctly Welsh, so I continue to assume for now that they
are at least Welsh.
This line, for those interested:
* Ellen Pugh (or Griffiths) married Hugh Roberts. I have no
birth, marriage or death information for her aside from that, though I do know
that she was likely alive when her daughter's family moved to Canada, or died
at about that time, as there is a photo of her with my great-grandmother as a
baby. I have only one child for them: Selina.
* Selina Roberts was born in Duffryn, Northern Wales in
1846. She married Gabriel Howells in 1874, and they had 8 children, two of whom
died in a Whooping Cough epidemic in 1877. She moved with her husband and
children to Southern Wales for a time, and from there to Canada, eventually
settling in Vancouver, BC, where she died in 1933.
* For information on the Howells family and descendants, see
the Howells surname post.
What I need:
* Some sort of confirmation of which surname was Ellen's maiden
name.
* Information on Ellen and Hugh's marriage. When they
married, where they married, how many children they had.
* Where and when Ellen born, who her parents were, and
whether or not she had siblings.
More on this line:
This post marks the end of my second round of Surname
Saturday. I do have many other surnames in my tree, of course, but little to no
documentation on most of them, and unlike this last generation, I know almost
nothing about most of them, so I'll leave this for a time. Instead, I'm going
to do posts starting next Monday about the women in my family, starting with my
grandmothers and working my way back, in honor of Women's History month. I
hope you'll follow those as well.
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