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Our Morley/Lucas Family Heritage
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Hilda & Kenneth Morley's Welsh/Amerian Heritage.
We were born in the Welsh Coal Mining Valleys of South Wales in the British Isles in the late 1920s. Our Village was Six Bells near Abertillery and the time frame was between the 1st. and 2nd. World Wars in Europe between Great Britain and Germany.The 1st. World War ended on November 11, 1918 and the 2nd. World War started on September 3rd.,1939 and ended May 7th. 1945. Also it was the period when the Coal and Steel industries were at there peak and the Valleys were thriving.
We began our working lives when we were in our teens and during the 2nd. World War. Hilda when she was 15 years of age started as a grocery clerk in Rees's grocery store in Six Bells and myself at 16 years of age as a laboratory assistant at the Mining and Technical College, Crumlin after two plus years in the Abertillery Technical School.
In September 1946 I joined the British Army and served two years of National Service with the South Wales Borderers. After demobilization in 1948 started work as a Colliery Draughtsman at Cwmtillery Colliery servicing five collieries from Six Bells to Blaina.
In 1949 I joined Abertillery Rugby Club and played with them until 1958. During my time with the Club I captained the team for two years, obtained my Monmouthshire County Cap and was part of the 1953 combined rugby team of Abertillery and Ebbw Vale that played against the New Zealand, All Blacks touring team. Hilda during that time served on the Ladies Committee for the club.
Hilda and I were married on Saturday July 1st.,1950 at the Ebenezer Babtist Chapel in Abertillery by the Reverend Menai Williams. We lived with my parents for a short period of time, then in rooms at my Grand Mothers old house in Earl Street and then owned our first house at No. 2 Alexandra Terrace, Six Bells. In 1958 we moved into our 2nd. and brand new home in Lanaravon, Cwmbran.
In 1956 I joined Richard Thomas and Baldwins in their engineering draughting offices in Ebbw Vale where I became a section leader resposible for 16 designers and draughtsmen.
In September 1961 we emigrated to the United States of America and settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where I worked at Jones and Laughlin Steel Company engineering offices as a steel mill engineer. We travelled to the States by sea on the SS Rotterdam an ocean liner of the Holland American Line.
In 1967 we moved to Cleveland, Ohio where I joined Republic Steel Company as a project manager resposible for the enginnering and building of their $200 million 84 inch Hot Strip Mill and Water Treatment Facilities Plant.
After the completion of that facility we travelled extensively engineering, building and consulting for the Steel and Uranium Industies along with various engineering and construction companies. Finally aiding the Legal Community in resolving Engineering and Construction Disputes.
This took us all over the United States, Canada and Brazil before settling in California for over a decade before our retirement in 1993.
Now we are retired and living in Las Vegas, Nevada enjoying tracing our family genealogy and keeping in touch with our friends that are all over the World via e-mail , standard mail and telephone. In addition we follow International Rugby, Tennis and Golf on our TV as well as enjoying the Vegas life.
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Our Morley, Lucas Ancestors, Relatives and Descendants
My Father was Ivor Morley and my Mother was Eva Coleman, Daughter of Charles Cook and Mary Cook nee Coleman. Great Grandfather Charles first arrived in Six Bells in 1846 at the age of five with his Mother from Camerton, Somerset. They returned to Camerton and Charles came back to Six Bells in his teens to spend the rest of his life there until he died in 1932 at the age of 91.
Hilda's Father was Frederick George Lucas and her Mother was Jeannetta Ann Board the Daughter of Mary Jane Board nee Jones who married Thomas Pitt after the death of her first Husband.
Other than my Father who worked in the Tin Works in Abertillery known as the Forge all our ancestors were Coal Miners.
We have Morley relatives in Cambridgeshire, England and Coleman relatives in Cornwall, England as well as in Bridgend, Glamorgan, mid Wales. Also Lucas, Board, Pitt and Coleman relatives in Abertillery, Gwent, Wales.
Our American descendents are located in Las Vegas, Nevada and in Orange, California. They being two Daughters and their Husbands with two Children each and now as of the end of year 2001 one Grand-Son Inlaw and one Grand Daughter-In-Law and one Great Grandson.
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Our Current Research
To date we have researched our Ancestors on both sides to the early 1800s and late 1700s and found them to have either originated from the Rhondda Valley in Glamorgan, South Wales and the Varteg near Pontypool in Gwent,South Wales and from the towns of Gloucester and Camerton in Somerset and Trowbridge in Wiltshire, England.
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Great Genealogy Links.
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