JULY 28, 2004...Submitted by Harry Culbert Nash, great-great grandson of Jeremiah Nash and Charlotte Miles... Jeremiah Nash: born 26th of August 1844, Clay Lane, registration district of Monmouth, sub-district of Coleford in the county of Gloucester. William Nash, miner, father Sarah Nash, formerly Jenkins, mother (made her mark on birth certificate) registered 10th of September 1844 In the 1851 census taken at Sling Pit hamlet, Gloucestershire, England Jeremiah Nash is listed in the household of Sarah Nash, widow. He was 6 years old according to that census. (Submitted by George Wayne Nash Jones) Jeremiah Nash died on May 8, 1904 at the Union Workhouse, Chepstow, Monmouthshire Co., U.D. (Submitted by George Wayne Nash Jones) Charlotte Miles: born 21st of May 1849, Ayleford, parish of Newnham, registration district of Westbury on Severn, sub-district of Newnham in the county of Gloucester. William Miles, labourer, father Ann Miles, formerly Nelmes, mother (made her mark on birth certificate) registered 1st July 1849 Jerimiah and Charlotte: married September 2nd (or possibly 22nd as print is very faint) 1867 at St. John's Church in the parish of St. John Dean Forest in the County of Gloucester ages were 22 and 19 respectively, condition bachelor and spinster respectively and residence Ruspedge for both. fathers' names William Nash and William Miles respectively and rank or profession of father was miner for both both Jeremiah and Charlotte signed the marriage certificate witnesses were Philip Miles and Elizabeth Miles and both made their mark they were married after banns by T.G. Smythies William Nash: died 3rd of June 1850, West Dean, registration district of Monmouth, sub-district of Coleford in the county of Gloucester. age 43 cause of death given as disease of the lungs not cerified the informant is James Jordan, present at the death, resident of West Dean registered on 5th of June 1850 William Miles: died 20th of January 1854, Ayleford in the parish of Newnham, registration district of Westbury on Severn, sub-district of Newnham in the county of Gloucester. age 44 cause of death given as accidentally falling down a coal pit the informant is Joseph Lovegrove, Coroner, Gloucester registered on 24th February 1854 From the Michaelmas Sessions Prison register Gloucester Jeremiah Nash remanded in prison at the Michaelmas Sessions 1877. The date of admission August 28th. Last residence and trade Cinderford and collier. Age was 33 and 1 week. Description: Height 5 ft. 7in. Hair brown. Eyes brown. Visage long and oval. Complexion sallow. Other marks: several blue marks on forehead, 3 moles right shoulder blade, scar right eyebrow and one left wrist. Cause of commitment: Stealing at East Dean on the 13th of August 1877 twelve fowls the property of John Crook and William Belcher. By whom committed: Rev C.E. Dighton and R.I. Kerr Esq. By what court to be tried: Quarter Sessions. By what court tried, and when: Quarter Sessions on October 17, 1877. Event of trial: Acquitted. Religious persuasion, previously known character habits and connections: Primitive Methodist, married,4 children, native of Clearwell, known to P.S. Critchley 14 years nothing against him. Wife Charlotte Nash Cinderford. From the Lent Assizes 1832 William Miles brought in 18th October 1831. Age 22. Parish Awre. By whom committed: J. Pyrke Esq. Crime: Charged on the oaths of Wm. Todd and others with stealing at the parish of Newnham, five bushels of apples of the value of ten shillings the property of the said william Todd. Marks, stature etc.: Light brown hair, grey eyes, rather long face, sallow complexion. Three moles on his right cheek, three smale moles right side his throat, five moles right arm, eight moles a scar and a ( can't make out word) left arm, seven moles back, right shoulder a mole and a scar on his right thigh. Not read nor write. Height 5 ft 5 1/2 in. When tried and event of trial: Michaelmas Sessions, October 18,1831. Six calendar months in penitentiary. When discharged: Removed 20th 1831. How behaved: orderly. According to our cousin from Wales, George Wayne Nash Jones, who has been researching this particular Nash family for much longer than we have, William Nash was the brother of Richard Nash. At some unknown time, William and Richard Nash opened the Sling Pit Iron Mine. One particular evening William and Richard Nash visited a local pub where they became somewhat inebriated. While at the pub they joined in a card game with a gentleman who later turned out to be a card shark. William and Richard Nash lost the Sling Pit Mine and land on that evening and then spent the next two weeks trying to find the card shark who they intended to blow to pieces with their shotguns. Luckily, they never did find the card shark, but the mine and the land remained in controversy. The census for 1851 taken at Sling Pit hamlet where the iron mine was also located finds Sarah Nash listed as a widow, aged 38, pauper with six fatherless children; Emanuel Nash, aged 14, son, iron miner William Nash, son, aged 12, iron miner Lorro Nash, daughter, aged 8 Jeremiah Nash, son, aged 6 Henry Nash, son, aged 4 Mary Nash, daughter, aged 2 Thus, by the time Jeremiah Nash was six years old he was fatherless but raised with the legend of Sling Pit Mine and the desire to retrieve the Sling Pit Iron Mine for the Nash family. Born into a family of coal miners, Jeremiah naturally followed that trade also. It was an honor to be born into a mining family in the Forest of Dean and apparently Jeremiah Nash had no qualms about following in his father and brothers' footsteps. Jeremiah Nash married Charlotte Miles and they had 7 children; Samuel Nash, born February of 1869 at East Dean, Gloucestershire Co., England, died December 12, 1921 at Nokomis, Montgomery Co., Illinois, U.S.A. Married 1. Anna "Annie" Gaffey, married 2. Frances Elizabeth McClellan Thomas Nash, born March 29, 1871 East Dean, Gloucestershire Co., England, died September 22, 1925 at Treorchy, Rhondda, Wales. Married Sarah Jane Cooksey May 28, 1892, Parkend, Gloucestershiare Co., England Henry (Harry) Nash, born March 26, 1873, Gloucestershire Co., England, date and place of death unknown George Nash, born July 13, 1875, East Dean, Gloucestershire Co., England, died January 22, 1944, Treorchy, Rhondda, Wales. Married Annie Hughes Sarah Nash, born January 4, 1878, Gloucestershire Co., England, date and place of death unknown. Married Thomas Talbot Daniel Nash, born March 27, 1880, Gloucestershire Co., England, date and place of death unknown. Married Ada Unknown Mary Nash, born January 6, 1883, Gloucestershire Co., England, died December 9, 1902, Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada. Married Thomas K. Miller We can find Jeremiah & Charlotte and their family in the 1871 & 1881 British censuses but we cannot find them in the 1891 British census. In fact, the next information we can find about the Jeremiah Nash family is the ship manifest for the Majestic which arrived at Ellis Island, New York, New York on October 10, 1895. It is on that manifest that we find Charlotte Nash who lists herself as 46 years old, a widow and her native country as Ireland. We also find Sarah Nash, 17, servant, Daniel Nash, 15, servant and Mary Nash, 9, child. By now Jeremiah Nash has pretty much disappeared, but as his great-grandson, George Wayne Nash Jones, described it, "Jeremiah had gone on a tramp around England." In fact, Jeremiah had abandoned his family. Perhaps Charlotte did not know Jeremiah's whereabouts or whether or not he was alive or dead, so she called herself a widow. The next time we find Charlotte she is listed on the 1901 census for Yale and Cariboo District British Columbia...Kootenay East, South Riding, where she is the head of the household that includes her sons, Harry and Daniel. They are living right next door to her son Thomas Nash and his family. The family that lives next door to Charlotte's home is the Thomas Miller family where we find young Mary Nash Miller and next door to them is the Thomas Talbot family where we find Sarah Nash Talbot. Mary Nash would die in December 9, 1902 during her 2nd childbirthing, just about a month before she would have turned 20 years old. By May of 1904, Charlotte really does become a widow when Jeremiah dies on May 8, 1904 at the Union Workhouse in Chepstow, Momouthshire, Wales. We pick Charlotte Nash up again on the 1906 census for Canada, Alberta, where the family is now living at Pincher Creek, where Mary Nash Miller is buried. Harry Nash is now listed as the head of the household with Charlotte Nash being described as his mother. Charlotte is now 59 years old, she really is a widow and her youngest child is dead. Harry and Charlotte lived right next door to Thomas K. Miller, who has remarried by now and lists a daughter, Gladys, 5 years old, who almost certainly is Mary's daughter and a son, George, 3 years old who could belong to either Mary or the new wife, Sarah. There is also a daughter, Rosie who is listed as 16 years old. Next to the Miller household lives Thomas Nash and his wife, Sarah Jane. By now their family has blossomed to 6 children, the youngest of which is our patriarch, William Arthur Nash. We find Charlotte Nash once again through a census. By now it is 1920 and she is living in Cle Elum, Kittitas, Washington, with her youngest son Daniel Nash(who is listed as head of the house) and his family. Charlotte who is now 79 years old shares her dwelling with Daniel, 40 years old, his wife, Ada, who is 30 years old and their children, Harold Nash, 10 years, Ruby M. Nash, 7 years and James Nash, 5 years. The very last we know about Charlotte Miles Nash, she writes to her son, George, that she is staying with her other son, Harry, while he is on a mining strike in October of 1922. Unfortunately we do not know where Harry was living in 1922 so we cannot pinpoint Charlotte's location. Any other information is welcome.