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Personal data Gwladys Gwendoline Miers 

  • She was born in the year 1861 in Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales.
    Name: Gwladis Gwendoline Miers Registration Year: 1861 Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec Registration District: Neath Inferred County: Glamorgan Volume: 11a Page: 414
  • She was baptized on January 10, 1862 in Cadoxton, Glamorgan, Wales.
    Name: Gwladys Gwendoline Miers Baptism Age: 0 Record Type: Baptism Birth Date: 1862 Baptism Date: 10/01/1862 (10 Jan 1862)
    Baptism Place: Cadoxton-Juxta-Neath Glamorganshire Wales Father: Richard Hanbury Miers Mother: Elizabeth Anne Miers

    Name: Gwladis Gwendoline Miers
    Gender: Female
    Baptism Date: 10 Jan 1862
    Baptism Place: Cadoxton Juxta Neath,Glamorgan,Wales
    Father: Richard Hanbury Miers
    Mother: Elizabeth Anne
    FHL Film Number: 104851, 104852
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1871: Dulais House, Cadoxton, Glamorgan, Wales.
      Name: Gwladys Wiens [Gwladys Miers] Age: 9 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1862 Relation: Niece Gender: Female
      Where born: Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales Civil Parish: Cadoxton Town: Dulais Lower County/Island: Glamorgan
      Country: Wales Registration District: Neath Sub-registration District: Cadoxton ED, institution, or vessel: 11 Household Schedule Number: 42 Piece: 5439 Folio: 8 Page Number: 9 Household Members: Name Age
      Joshua Williams 45 Ellen Williams 32 Gwladys Wiens 9 Charlotte Thomas 40 Mary Ann Gittens 45
      Rachel Richards 21 Mary Bowen 28 Charles Stockwell 23
    • in the year 1881: 11 The Lees Folkestone, Kent. ( Living with her mother and her step father).
      Name: Glwadys G. Miers Age: 19 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1862 Relationship to Head: Step Daughter Mother: Elizabeth A. Lewis
      Gender: Female Where born: Neath, Glamorgan, Wales Civil Parish: Folkestone County/Island: Kent Country: England
      Street Address: 11 The Lees Registration District: Elham ED, institution, or vessel: 6 Neighbors: View others on page Piece: 1009
      Folio: 116 Page Number: 37 Household Members: Name Age
      Lewis T. Lewis 38 Elizabeth A. Lewis 40 Glwadys G. Miers 19 Mawd M. Miers 18 Reginald H. Miers 16
    • in the year 1891: Maes y ddenneu House, Ystradgynlais, South Wales.
      Name: Capel Aylett Branfill [Capel Branfill] Age: 31 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1860 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Gwladys Gwendoline Barfill Gender: Male Where born: Dublin, Ireland Civil Parish: Ystradgynlais Lower Ecclesiastical parish: St Cattwg
      Town: Gurnos County/Island: Breconshire Country: Wales Street Address: Registration District: Pontardawe Sub registration district: Pontardawe ED, institution, or vessel: 1 Neighbors: View others on page Piece: 4467 Folio: 2 Page Number: 3
      Household Members: Name Age
      Capel Aylett Branfill 31 Gwladys Gwendoline Barfill 29 Capel Lisle Aylett Banfill 6 Gwladys Muriel Aylett Branfill 4
      Enid Mary Aylett Branfill 2 Mary Ann Evans 13 Emma Carpenter 39 Mary Williams 31
    • in the year 1901: Ynistaure House, Clase, Llangyfelach, Nr. Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales.
      Name: Capel A Branfill Age in 1901: 41 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1860 Relation: Head Spouse: Gladis G Branfill
      Gender: Male Where born: Ireland Civil Parish: Ecclesiastical parish: Clydach St John County/Island: Glamorgan
      Country: Wales Registration District: Swansea Sub-registration District: Llangafelach ED, institution, or vessel: 1
      Neighbors: View others on page Household Schedule Number: 274 Piece: 5070 Folio: 28 Page Number: 47 Household Members:
      Name Age
      Capel A Branfill 41 Gladis G Branfill 39 Gladis M A Branfill 14 Enid M A Branfill 12 Iris A Branfill 9
      Adelina M Branfill 5 Geoffrey D A Branfill 5 Elizabeth P A Branfill 3 Alice Bowey 34 Jessie Davids 44
      Margaret Hicks 40 Ellen Michael 34 Kate Davies 22 Sarah Thomas 17
  • She died on March 22, 1905 in Swansea, Glamorgan, S. Wales, she was 44 years old.
    NAME: Gwladys Gwendoline Branfill DEATH DATE: 22/03/1905 (22 Mar 1905) DEATH PLACE: Glamorgan, Wales PROBATE DATE: 24/10/1905 (24 Oct 1905) PROBATE REGISTRY: London, England

    Name: Gwladys G Branfill Estimated Birth Year: abt 1863 Registration Year: 1905 Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar Age at Death: 42
    Registration District: Swansea Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
    Inferred County: Glamorganshire Volume: 11a Page: 674
  • Probate on October 24, 1905 naar London, England.
    NAME: Gwladys Gwendoline Branfill DEATH DATE: 22/03/1905 (22 Mar 1905) DEATH PLACE: Glamorgan, Wales PROBATE DATE: 24/10/1905 (24 Oct 1905) PROBATE REGISTRY: London, England Effects ¹81
  • This information was last updated on November 8, 2020.

Household of Gwladys Gwendoline Miers

She is married to Capel Aylett Branfill.

They got married on February 27, 1883 at Paris, France, she was 22 years old.

Name: Capel Aylett Branfill Gender: Male Marriage Date: 27 Feb 1883 Marriage Place: British Embassy Or Legation Abroad, Great Britain
Spouse: Gioladys Gwendoline Miers FHL Film Number: 1929840 Reference ID: P 275

Name: Capel Aylett Branfill Gender: Male Marriage Date: 19/02/1883 (19 Feb 1883) Marriage Place: Paris, France Event Type: Marriage
Spouse: Gwladgs Gwendoline Mirs Spouse Gender: Female Piece Description: RG 33: Foreign Registers and Returns, 1627-1960

Name: Capel Aylett Branfill Gender: Male Marital status: Single Marriage Date: 19 Feb 1883 Marriage Place: London, London, England
Spouse: Gwladys Gwendoline Meirs FHL Film Number: 1929837 Reference ID: cn 253

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Historical events

Christening day January 10, 1862

  • The temperature on January 10, 1862 was about 8.2 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
    • April 16 » American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
    • June 9 » American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
    • July 18 » First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
    • September 2 » American Civil War: United States President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
    • September 13 » American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.

Day of death March 22, 1905

  • The temperature on March 22, 1905 was between 2.9 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
    • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
    • September 26 » Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
    • October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
    • December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.


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