Dear Listers --
First, many, many thanks again to all you who've helped me with my search for cemetery
records in and around Brynmawr and Nantyglo. My computer has been on the fritz or I would
have jumped back online and thanked you all again much sooner.
Unfortunately, after all the trouble so many of you exerted on my behalf, my POWELL
ancestors do not seem to be in the Brynmawr municipal cemetery listings -- assuming that
shared plot numbers indicate likely family relationships, that is. Therefore I'm back
to looking for clues in nonconformist cemeteries (William POWELL and Sarah Ann NEWMAN were
married at Calvary Chapel, so perhaps their children and/or parents were buried there?) or
in Anglican cemeteries.
We leave for Wales this coming Sunday morning and are growing quite excited. However, I
noted with dismay that the Powys Archives have an emergency closure for this whole month
-- what horrible timing for us! Can you all please tell me if there are alternate sources
we can go to for information on the Llangattock and Lanelly parish portions of Brynmawr?
We're looking for BMD info and church/parish and cemetery records. We're already
going to spend some time at the Cwmbran archives on the morning of the 20th, but I doubt
they would be of help with Brynmawr vicinity -- right? Would the record office in Brecon
be of any help with BMD certifs from the GRO index? Is there someplace else that would?
Do local libraries have anything that would help us, other than censuses? (We already
have the 1851 and 1861.) Can you tell I'm casting about in a semi-panic??
Looking forward eagerly to nosing around Brynmawr and vicinity next Thursday and Friday.
I'm sure it will have changed a great deal since we were last there in 1981!
With much appreciation to you all,
Judith Sylte
Whidbey Island, Washington
USA