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Yes David you are correct Harry's surname should read BATT and not BALL as we have transcribed.

This entry has now been corrected.

Graham

Our branch of the Elms family were from High Littleton, Clutton and Chew Magna, but Francis had taken his family to South Wales in the 1840’s. It’s probably one of the brothers, but would require a bit of digging.

There is a very useful site to enable you to identify at which church a marriage took place in Bristol by using the GRO Reference. The GRO to Church Cross Reference for Marriages is the result of research by a team of people in Bristol.  In this case the GRO Reference is 405 but unfortunately the list does not include this reference for the 2nd quarter of 1917.  Neither is that marriage included in their index to non-conformist marriages.  It might be that the marriage took place in the Register Office.  Have you tried the newspapers to see if there was an announcement?

The Ships List has some information about the Bristol City Line which mught be useful. 

Hope you make progress with your research.

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Hi Marion

I was born in WSM and lived at 1 Clifton Road until about 1955 when we moved to Wales. We used to have a family called Pike living in 1 Clifton Road with us - Mr and Mrs Pike and 2 daughters, Rosemary and Linda. I have a very few photos of Rosemary and Linda taken on the sands. Might they be part of your family? Mr Pike was a merchant seaman.

Best wishes

Sherri Carnson