Christening:
Date: 23 Nov 1755
Place: Orritslev, Skeby, Odense, Denmark
Burial:
Date: 18 Feb 1804
Place: Bederslev, Odense, Denmark
Individual Note:
chr film 50448 marr and bur film 50323 bederslev census 1787 and 1801
Burial:
Date: 29 Sep 1839
Place: Krogsbolle, Odense, Denmark
Individual Note:
bederslev census 1787 and 1801
Christening:
Date: 17 Apr 1783
Place: Vellinge, Bederslev, Odense, Denmark
Burial:
Date: 13 Jan 1865
Place: Hjadstrup, Odense, Denmark
Individual Note:
birth and chr film 50323 bederslev census 1787
Burial:
Date: 15 Aug 1867
Place: Hjadstrup, Odense, Denmark
Census: S OF FFORCHAMAN (PART). REF.H.O.107/2460, E.D.2H Piece: 2460Folio: 264Schedule
Individual Note:
HI CATHIE,
THANKS FOR SENDING THE CD'S & PICTURES. I DIDN'T INTEND FOR YOU TO HAVE TO RE-PRINT THE PICTURES. I HAVE A COLOR PRINTER THAT I COULD HAVE PRINTED THEM ON. THANKS FOR THE HISTORIES TOO. I THINK IT IS GREAT TO HAVE SOMETHING ABOUT THE PEOPLE RATHER THAN JUST NAMES AND DATES.
ALSO, Friday I GOT THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE FOR LEWIS LISON & ALICE JONES. I SENT FOR IT BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT MAY BE LEWIS LEYSHON & ALICE JONES. THE MARRIAGE DATE WAS August 9, 1844 I BELIEVE AND THE NAME LISTED FOR LEWIS' FATHER WAS WILLIAM, A MINER. THE NAME LISTED FOR ALICE'S FATHER WAS GRIFFITH, DECEASED. THE MARRIAGE TOOK PLACE IN THE PARRISH CHURCH, VAYNOR, BRECON, WALES.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF THEY WOULD HAVE GIVEN THE AGES BUT THEY JUST SAID 'OF LEGAL AGE.
AFTER I SENT FOR THE CERTIFICATE I DECIDED TO WORK ON THE FERRIS LINE FOR A WHILE BUT WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR THE LEYSHONS I FOUND THE FOLLOWING IN THE CENSUS REPORTS:
Glamorgan Family History Society - Glamorgan 1851 Census
2460 1851 CENSUS OF FFORCHAMAN (PART). REF.H.O.107/2460, E.D.2H Piece: 2460Folio: 264Schedule: 243 Address: BLAENGWAWR ROW LEYSHON LEWIS HD M 35 COLLIER BRE VAYNOR(c1816) LEYSHON ALICE WI M 34 BRE VAYNOR(c1817) LEYSHON ELIZABETH DAU 7 BRE VAYNOR(c1844) LEYSHON GRIFFITH SO U 5 GLA MERTHYR(c1846) LEYSHON WILLIAM SO U 3 GLA MERTHYR(c1848)
WILLIAMS ROBERT LG M 25 COLLIER CMN LLANDEILO FAWR(c1826) WILLIAMS MARY LG M 26 GLA BETTWS(c1825)
ALICE IN 1881 Census with son Lewis Alternate birth place: Vaynor, Brecon, Wales? Dwelling:2 Frederick St Census Place:Ystradyfodwg, Glamorgan, WalesSource:FHL Film 1342276PRO Ref RG11 Piec e 5304 Folio 40 Page 73 MarrAgeSexBirthplace Lewis LEYSHONM26 MGlamorgan, Wales Rel:HeadOcc:Coal Miner Dinah LEYSHONM27 FGlamorgan, Wales Rel:Wife Alice LEYSHON 3 FGlamorgan, Wales Rel:Daur Margaret Jane LEYSHON 6 mFGlamorgan, Wales Rel:Daur Alice LEYSHONW68 FGlamorgan, Wales (1813 CONFLICTS W/ 1851 CENSUS) Rel:Mother (ALSO 1851 CENSUS LISTS Vaynor, Brecon AS BIRTHPLACE) Morris EVANSU29 MMontgomery, Wales Rel:BoarderOcc:Coal Miner James HOWELLSU24 MGlamorgan, Wales Rel:BoarderOcc:Coal Miner William MILLERU31 MBristol
I TRIED TO E-MAIL THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE TO YOU THIS MORNING BUT IT DIDN'T WORK AND I HAD TO LEAVE FOR WORK.
THANKS AGAIN,
OLIVER
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Hi Oliver,
I received your letter yesterday afternoon. Your name leads me to believe that you are the son of my great aunt, Ethel. I assume you were named after my great grandfather, Oliver Hansen. I am the granddaughter of Elma Willes. Jeanette Willes is my mother.
I very much enjoyed your letter. I too have a copy of the marriage certificate of Lewis Lison & Alice Jones. I mailed for it in 1990 and have been researching the Leyshon line ever since. I found the marriage entry for William Lyson and Elizabeth Harries on the film for the Vaynor Parish about the same time (LDS FHL film # 104,500 item # 3). Since you found that marriage I assume you also found the other things on that film which relate to our Leyshon's. If not, please let me know so I can share them with you.
I feel confident that the Lewis and William that we have both found are our line. My proof is as follows, sources are listed in parentheses: (I regret that in my earlier days of researching I didn't understand the value of writing down page and entry numbers - sorry, I was young and inexperienced)
- Family records given to me by my grandmother stated that the birthplace of Lewis Leyshon was Cefn Coed-y-Cymmer, Vaynor, Wales. There is indeed a Cefn Coed-y-cymmer in the Parish of Vaynor.
- Our family records indicated that our emigrant ancestor, William Leyshon (1849-1905) had a few siblings who lived to adulthood and had offspring. I have found the descendants of his older sister, Elizabeth Leyshon Lewis. I have been in contact with them for several years, and have been given copies of their genealogy. It matched the records handed down to our branch of the family, even though these branches lost contact with each other around 1910. (records in my possession)
- I have searched Salt Lake Temple records in Special Collections at the Salt Lake Library. Emily Crofts Leyshon did the temple work for her husband's family. She lists Lewis Leyshon and Alice Jones as her mother-in-law and father-in-law. She did work for all of the siblings listed on our family records except the oldest child, Elizabeth Leyshon Lewis. This was because Elizabeth was still living at the time. Elizabeth's work endowment and sealings were done later. (Logan Temple records, FHL film #178091, page 229 and FHL film #178067, page 293) She was baptized in 1852, at the age of eight. This indicated to me that Lewis and Alice Leyshon must have been members of the Church or she would not have been baptized so young. The temple records verified the dates handed down on family records.
SLC Temple Records, FHL film #183416 baptisms
SLC Temple Records, FHL film #184087 endowments
SLC Temple Records, FHL film #1239605 slg. to parents
SLC Temple Records, FHL film #407939 index - couple sealings
SLC Temple Records, FHL film #407938 index - sealing to parents
- I also searched the Manti Temple records. The "Leyshon" findings are too extensive to list here and I have still not been able to make the connection to our family but I think that if I can unravel all of it that it will lead us to the next generation of Leyshons. These names were submitted by John Davies. After searching around I found out that he was living in Huntington, Utah in 1914. His mother was Mary Lleshan, the daughter of William Lleshan (born 1769) and Jane (born (1773). Could this William Lleshan be a cousin or uncle of our ancestor William Leyshon? When my grandmother, Elma Hansen Willes, was still alive I asked her if she knew who he was. She said that when she was a very young girl she knew a Mrs. Davis who was a friend of her grandmother, Emily Crofts Leyshon, but she did not know his first name. She said that her grandmother knew him in Wales and thought he might be a cousin of her grandpa (William Leyshon, our immigrant ancestor). She said that Mr. Davis often visited her grandmother and would take her places in his horse drawn wagon. My grandmother, Elma, said that he drove her into Spanish Fork one time. If you are able to shed some light on Mr. Davis I would welcome the information. (see Leyshon entries on the IGI submitted by John Davis.)
- After several email communications, with researchers living in Wales, I learned that the surname, Leyshon, is derived from the given name, Lleision. It became a surname when patronymics ceased to be used in Wales. Today there are several spelling variations that exist in Wales today: Lashon, Lason, Layson, Leishon, Lleshan, Llechan, Llieson, Llieshon, Leison, Leson, Leyson, Leyshon, Lyshon, Lyson, Lison, Lishon, Leychen, Leychon, Llyshon, Llyson, Llison. The Welsh pronunciation is just as we have been saying it in our family.
-I have searched almost all of the early LDS Branch records in Wales. There was a branch in Cefn coed-y-cymmer and there is a membership record for a William Leyshon living there - interestingly, this was not our immigrant ancestor. This William was 69 years old at the time of his baptism in 1850. (FHL film #104,168) This record also stated that William "removed" to Abereman. Aberamman was a meeting place for the LDS Branch in the Aberdare area but no records of this branch have been found. We know that Lewis & Alice Leyshon moved to Aberdare, as stated in our family records. We have also found them on the Census Records in Dowlais, not far from Aberdare and Aberamman (Census of Dowlais, FHL film #104,868). The oldest daughter, Elizabeth Leyshon Lewis was also living in this same area (Census of Ystradyfodwg, FHL #1342276) It would seem logical that their father would move there after his wife died, which I will show later. This is what I found in the Cefn coed-y-cymmer Branch record:
Enwau (Name) Wm Leyshon
Preswylfod (Residence) Cefn coedycymmer
Oed (Age) 69
Pa Bryd Bedyddiwyd (When Baptised) Rhag (December)12 / 50
Gan hwy (By Whom) Wm Williams
Pa Bryd Cudarnhawyd (When Confirmed) Rhag (December) 13 /50
Gan hwy (By Whom) J. Jones
Trogslwyddyd (Removed) Pa Bryd (When) Ohwef (February) 13 / 54
I ba Gagen (To what Branch) Abereman
Ordeiniwyd yn Athraw (Ordained a Teacher) ___25 / 52 (I couldn’t read the month)
Gan hwy (By Whom) Wm Richards
- A search of the 1851 Census in Cefn Coed-y-Cymmer turned up only one Leyshon living there and it was indeed a William Leyshon:
(Cefn Coed-y-Cymmer Census, FHL film #104,203)
William Leychon, farm Llabourer, widower, age 68, born in Brecon, Dyfynock.
- The 1841 Census for Cefn Coed-y-Cymmer is missing.
- Other sources I have searched but have had no luck:
*Nonconformist records for Merthyr Tydfil and all of Brecon County.
*Brecon County burial index (no William or Elizabeth Harries Leyshon burials).
*Glamorgan County burial index.
*Began a search of the Civil Registration for the deaths of William and Elizabeth Leyshon but there were too many possibilities to narrow it down.
*Contacted Glamorgan County Family History Society and had them search their index (also their Stray records).
*Birth records in the Vaynor Parish - no Leyshon's. (It cost money to christen a child.)
*Made contact with Carol Koellicker, The Leyshon's in Idaho, Shirley Averett and Linda Bahr.
*SL FHL - searched all the history books for Brecon and Glamorgan (couldn't read all as some were in Welch).
*Looked through the Church Archives (4th floor of Joseph Smith Bldg.) I found Leyshon's submitted by:
Reuben M. Flynn who lived in SLC in 1971. I wrote him but he is no longer living at this address
(perhaps, no longer living). Do you know who he was?
*Searched the surname index on the Family Search program. I found only one Leyshon:
Alexander Leyshon (1900-1950) Do you know who he was?
*Viewed a film that had Welsh Pedigrees but could make no heads of tails of it.
*Searched several parish records in Defynog. Found one possibility if William Leyshon's father was still
practicing patronymics at time of his birth.
*I have had several correspondences over the internet.
Things I am currently doing:
*I am registered with Brecon County, as a volunteer for their Look-up-Exchange on the internet. I do searches for those wanting information that may be on the Bishop Transcripts for the Vaynor Parish. I have a copy of that film at my local family history library. Someday, maybe another descendant of William and Elizabeth Leyshon will contact me and we can exchange information. This is how I found Elizabeth Leyshon Lewis' descendants in Iowa.
*I am registered on the LDS Family Search surname index. The descendants of William Leyshon and Emily Crofts found me from this site.
*I continue to look for the birth of William Leyshon in Dyfynock (which is actually spelled Defynnog on maps today) and surrounding areas.
Things I have that may interest you:
*copied maps
*birth, marriage and death certificates for the Lewis Leyshon and Alice Jones family.
My apologies that this email is so long. I have tried to supply with all of my sources. I would very much like to know what you have done in your research so that I do not repeat your efforts. If you have anything that I do not have, and are willing to share, I would really appreciate it. Please let me know if you can shed some light on any of my research.
I should also let you know that my address has changed:
Cindy Hills
974 Moyle Circle
Alpine, Utah 84004
(801) 763-7697
tooth1@burgoyne.com <>
Thanks again for your letter. I hope to hear from you again.
Cindy
PS. I also should tell you that I have completed all of the LDS ordinance work, that was not already done, for the Leyshon's that I have found. Elizabeth Leyshon Lewis left the church and married a nonmember so her descendants are not members. They were kind enough to give me permission to do the work for their branch of the family.