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    Default COVID 19 makes Menai records unavailable

    Got this response from the Menai Heritage Society:

    From: Menai Heritage
    Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 11:01 AM
    To: Paul W Betts
    Subject: Re: Bridgekeepers, caretakers, superintendents, toll collectors

    Dear Paul

    Thank you for your email.

    I'm afraid our museum is currently closed due to the Covid19 crisis, and Trustees are only meeting remotely once a week or so.

    I'm afraid therefore there will be a delay in our being able to respond more fully-which we will attempt to do once the situation eases.

    I hope you can appreciate the difficulties we're currently facing.

    Best wishes
    Gill Williams
    Thomas Telford Centre Manager
    On 30 April 2020 at 15:36 Paul W Betts <[email protected]> wrote:
    Hello from across the pond!

    My g-g-grandmother Esther Knight (nee Nash, previously Betts) was married to William Knight in Bangor in 1885. He is listed there as “Caretaker” and his residence is listed as “Toll house, Menai Bridge”. In the 1891 census, he is listed as “Superintendent of the Menai Suspension Bridge”. He died at the Menai Bridgehouse in Oct 1897 as his occupation on the death certificate was ship’s carpenter. Various newspaper accounts after his wife’s death by suicide refer to him superintendent and “toll collector”. Are the terms “toll collector”, “superintendent”, “caretaker” and bridgekeeper” used interchangeably? Do you have records of the various people in that (those) roles? There are newspaper articles showing other toll collectors from the bridge during that same time, so it is somewhat confusing to me.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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    I have the census enumeration for the ship, but I cannot anywhere find Anglesey or Holyhead. Everything else is as you have written. Is this a different enumeration?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulWBetts View Post
    for some reason this link tells me the site can't be reached... but I cut and pasted the link and got in... thanks!
    I speak here of the rare old prints link!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulWBetts View Post
    Link please?
    I refer here to National Archives link in #37

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulWBetts View Post
    I refer here to National Archives link in #37
    https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ils/r/D7878353

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    Thanks!

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