http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/
I live in Scranton pa and I also have family that came from the
Blaenau-Gwent area. But the main reason for this E-mail is to pass along
this web page to Lackawanna Co. in which Scranton is part of. I you click on
it and it will take to a page where there are several cemeteries listed
including the Washburn St. which also at one time known as the Welsh
cemetery.
I also would like to help in looking for relatives buried there if you can
pass on the name and maybe the section.
I was looking for my Griffiths family and passed many Powell's and Hughes'.
If I can help please feel free to ask.
Jim Griffiths
----- Original Message -----
From: <jasylte(a)att.net>
To: <BlaenauGwent-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: [Bla'Gwent] Brynmawr / Nantyglo and Pennsylvania links
Hi Jeff and All --
Hmmm, how interesting that you have ongoing contact with the Evan and
Benjamin
Hughes family.
>Evan and Benjamin indeed had a sister named Sarah. She's listed as 14 in
the
1841 census of Brynmawr. She is not, however, with them in the 1851
census.
By that time Benjamin was already in Pennsylvania. I also have the
Hughes
family in the 1861 and 1871 census of Brynmawr.<
Very interesting. The Sarah Hughes who married my great-great-uncle
George Powell
(BTW, her middle initial may have been J.) would have been of
the next generation. Her dates appear to be 1856-1913. Does any of that
ring a bell with anybody? Of course, Hugheses were even more prevalent than
Powells in both Brynmawr and the eastern coalfield of Pennsylvania so there
may be no connection whatever, but I've long had a strong hunch that she was
from a family "from home."
>My wife and I will be researching in Scranton this coming October. Of
course
we'll be visiting the Washburn Street cemetery too.< Ooooey, so
you're heading to Washburn St., too??? I'm jealous. If you have any chance
to look at my Powells' stone in the Avondale plot, I'd be so grateful. Bill
Evans of Harvey's Lake, Luzerne Co., PA has written me two very interesting
letters offline in response to my earlier post here (his family roots are in
the part of Plymouth, PA which is now called Edwardsville) and he has also
kindly offered to look for the stone when he's next there -- so maybe with
several good pairs of eyes we can decipher it. Even with Kathleen's
original photo, not the online version, it's impossible to read anything but
the names -- I can't even tell whether the rest of the inscription is in
English or Welsh!
The news of the vandalism at the cemetery is really distressing. I do not
understand people like that. >I have a contact in Scranton who says that
the records for Washburn Street are in the process of being transcribed.
This was news to me, because I thought they had all been destroyed...<
That's wonderful news, as Kathleen had no luck at all prying the cemetery
records out of the current custodian. Please keep us all updated on this,
will you?
>As you probably know, the Albright Library there is a great resource for
19th
newspapers (obits), birth and death certificates, etc. I'd be happy to
look up a few things for you.< How kind of you! Would love to know more
about this, but this maillist is not the proper forum so we can pursue that
elsewhere.
Will write more about Calvary records in a separate post.
Cheers,
Judith Sylte
Whidbey Island, WA
USA
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