Hi folks!
Does anyone know whether there are any registers or other records available
for Carmeltown Independent Congregational Chapel, please?
I've just discovered a bunch of ancestors transcribed on the Gwent FHS
Monumental Inscription fiche covering it, and suspect that quite a few of
the headstones found to be illegible in 1991 (but were still legible in the
1960s when an American descendant visited the graveyard - why didn't she
note down her sources?) might mark a few more family graves. A number of my
ancestors' cousins also show up there, but only two MIs show the direct
ancestors I was hoping to find.
Another question that has arisen, is why would a 49 year-old woman be buried
in a grave with a man (sharing neither her maiden nor married surnames) who
died about 3 years before she was born? There's one possibility that the
man in question, could be a maternal uncle of the woman's husband, who was
to join them a few years later. A summary of the info. found on this
particular grave's MI (347) is:
John, 30, son of David & Ann WILLIAMS, Rassa, died 19 Nov 1848;
also Catherine PRICE, 49, died 07 Oct 1900;
[Catherine PRICE, nee NORMAN(?), innkeeper at Castle Inn, Rassau Road]
also John PRICE, 63, her husband, died 28 Feb 1913.
[son of Watkin PRICE & Mary PRICE, nee WILLIAMS, in grave 366]
x Kate.