Nash Family of England, Wales, Canada and the United States

October 25, 2008...Hello Family. I am getting there. I am finally getting everything in place and getting the links reattached. Remember to REFRESH your pages. All you do to refresh is to click your right mouse button, go down the list until you see "refresh" or "reload" or something similiar...click that and the page will reload.

This whole site has grown beyond belief since it was first started about 4 years ago. In fact, it has grown way beyond the descendants of Jeremiah Nash and Charlotte Miles Nash. Thanks to Matt's Yahoo site, other cousins are making themselves known and are sharing what they know. Untitled

I hope you are starting to see the trend. The Nash family and all of the correlated families are starting to get onboard. There is so much to be found at the Nash Yahoo site...you really need to visit and sign up if you think you are related to all of the Nash's listed on this page.

Families are getting smaller and smaller. There are hardly any families left that were as big as some of the older Nash's created. And we are getting older. I look at the pictures of ancestors that have gone before us and I finally realize they had the same hopes and dreams that I once had and that my kids have now.

The only way to keep the Nash family history alive is to respond, to start sharing, to revel in your roots. It has worked here with splendid results. Genealogy is not about being old or young. It is about the ancient art of ancestry. At a time before writing, oral history sufficed to teach the new generations about their ancestors. We lost that art somewhere along the line. Now, through the internet we have a chance to recapture what we have lost. The more you share, the more you learn.

I sometimes think that the fundamental problems that we have with our children are that they don't have roots. The Nash's have deep,deep roots. Roots that take us back to the Forest of Dean and beyond that. It is up to us to find them. We have gone farther than I ever thought was possible. Let's all work together to go even farther back.

I still have more work to do...to get some other pages online. However, most of them are back and working just great as far as I can tell. I will continue to update this site as long as you all show some interest. If you don't show that interest then I will have to consider demolishing it all together. If it were not for George Wayne Nash Jones and his wife, Adrianne, who found this site and were kind enough and dedicated enough to share documents, photographs and history with us for many months and through many, many emails and transmissions this website would not be in existence. Secondly, Matt Nash who has done so much to carry the torch. At first his Yahoo site scared those of us that are older and just got the hang of the internet...and then we had to figure something else out. That was a little scary for some of us. The point is though that Matt took it out where other folks could find us and have found us and have shared what they have learned. That is the most important thing of all.

And beyond all of that. Family, there is an honorable, illustrious history to share. I look at so many of these pictures and I am sometimes so struck at a family resemblance that has passed on to cousins who are four generations apart. Somehow those mining Nash's from the Forest of Dean survived by working hard and dying in the mines..and they left descendants who no longer have to work that hard or die just to keep their family in food. Now the Nash's have college graduates and family in high places. It is important that you remember that you got there through the sacrifices that your ancestors made.

And now it is your responsibilty to honor them. The best way you can honor them is to honor your history and your genealogy. Contribute. Give back what you have gained. You will find a family that you never knew you really had. Most of your ancestors actually died mining in dark places way below the earth so that their chidren would survive to have children who had children who had you. This work is too major to let go. It truly is.

And this is where we started 4 years ago..............

This website focuses on the family of Jeremiah Nash and Charlotte Miles Nash who were born and raised in the Forest of Dean, county of Gloucester, England.

Jeremiah Nash, born August 26, 1844, was the son of William Nash and Sarah Jenkins.

Charlotte Miles, born May 21, 1849 was the daughter of William Miles and Ann Nelmes.

Jeremiah Nash and Charlotte Miles were married September 2 (or 22) of 1867 at St. John's church in the parish of St. John Dean Forest in the County of Gloucester. The witnesses were Philip Miles and Elizabeth Miles. They were married after banns by T. G. Smythies.

Like so many other people in the Forest of Dean the Nash and Miles families made their living by working in the mines. In fact, Jeremiah's father, William Nash, died June 3, 1850 of disease of the lungs that was most likely due to working in the mines...and Charlotte's father, William Miles, died January 20, 1854 by "accidently falling down a coal pit."

Thanks to the help of many others who found this website in it's infancy, 2004, we have learned a great deal about this family. In fact, in 2004 we did not even know Jeremiah or Charlotte's names. And we are all grateful for the generous help that we have received...most especially from our hero, George Wayne Nash Jones...and we are anxious to learn more. If these people look familiar, please write. The more we share, the more we learn.

The 1851 census for Sling Pit Hamlet lists Sarah Nash as a widow, aged 38, pauper with six children; Emanuel Nash, age 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 and Mary Nash, daughter, aged 2.

Now though, thanks to Joanne Brown, who has been researching this Nash family also, we know that there were more children than this six and we know that Sarah Jenkins Nash went on to have at least one more daughter, Alice, who was born 1 March, 1854 at Clay Lane End, West Dean, Gloucestershire. No father is listed. In fact, Joanne's page is very informative, very well proven and full of censuses from 1841 and onwrd. See her page at Nash Family

Richard Nash ( a brother of William Nash) and William Nash opened a mine in the Forest of Dean in 1841, it was called "Old Sling Pit Iron Mine." Whatever happened to the mine and their ownership is still up for debate but it was important enough for one of Jeremiah and Charlotte's sons, Thomas Nash to leave his family in Decatur, Illinois, U. S. A. to go back to England to try to regain ownership for the Nash family. Check out the article by Matthew Nash concerning the Nash's of Sling Pit and the ownership of the mine.

Jeremiah Nash and Charlotte Miles had seven children that we know of; Samuel Nash, Thomas Nash, Henry (Harry) Nash, George Nash, Sarah Nash, Daniel Miles Nash and Mary Nash.

For whatever reason, perhaps in search of work, Jeremiah Nash appears to have abandoned his wife and family and "gone on a tramp around England." Their oldest son, Samuel, had already left England and was living in Montana when Charlotte Nash with her 3 youngest children arrived at Ellis Island, New York, New York on the ship, Majestic, on October 10, 1895.

In 1901 for Yale and Cariboo District, British Columbia, Kootenay East, South Riding, we find many members of this family most of them living right next door to each other.

Soon though, they will leave this area and almost as one body move to Alberta, Canada. They will live in places like Pincher Creek, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Spring Ridge and they will marry and multiply and have many more descendants. Some of the family remained in Canada, mostly the daughters. The sons seem to have, for the most part, located in the United States; Samuel and Thomas in Illinois, Harry and Daniel in Washington. The 2 daughters married; Sarah Nash married Stephen Thomas Talbot and they had 9 children. Mary Nash married Thomas Miller and had one daugher, Gladys, before Mary died in 1902. We have not learned much about Mary at this point.

And, all of the daughters of Thomas Nash and Sarah Cooksey returned to Canada with the exception of Doris Nash Green who died in 1927 at Decatur, Illinois. All of Samuel's children remained in the United States...and Daniel's Nash's widow returned to Canada with her children when he died about 1924.

If any of this sounds familiar...please write. If you have any information, we welcome it. This website was created to share with everyone who has an interest in this family and we look forward to hearing from you. What follows are the contributors and sponsers of this website who have made this website what it is.

February 18, 2006

Toni Nash

July 30, 2004....Toni L. Nash

List of Contacts;

Toni Nash

Janet Hurtte Nash

George Wayne Nash Jones

Mark Wakenshaw

Harry Culbert Nash

Matthew Nash

Joanne Brown

Betty Jean Nihill Taylor

Marlene, the granddaughter of Winnie Talbot Dragland, the great granddaughter of Stephen Thomas & Sarah Nash Talbot