During April, Sidney's letter home were concerned mainly with football. The team he was in were playing well, and out of six games played, his team had won four and drawn one and were second in the league, but only one point behind the leaders. The following letters are from the 25th April and 2 May 1943
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Finding an ancestor with a criminal past, can stir up all kinds of emotions. If the ancestor is a distant relative or far removed by time, then it may be interesting or exciting to find out what they got up to. So far in my research I have found two ancestors with a criminal past thanks to Findmypast's Criminal Records. The first was known about within the family, while the other was a completely new discovery. Today I am going to write about the former. David Cynon Jones was born in 1877 in Llandysul, Cardiganshire, Wales. In the 1881 and 1891 census' he is living with his parents Evan and Margaret Jones in Llandysul. Between 1891 and 1897 he becomes a printer and on the 24th December 1897, he marries Martha Evans in Newcastle Emlyn Register Office. Martha and David, live with with Matha's family at Velindre in Carmarthanshire and they go on to have two children, Jonathan Ifan Ifor Evans and Hugh Ceredig Jones in 1898 and 1899 respectively. This is were the fa
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