Hi Kate
Your family descendants of PRITCHARD and PROSSER, caught my eye. We have a
Sarah Jane WILDING married (about 1886) to a PRITCHARD (Given name unknown)
he died sometime before 1890, then Sarah Jane married Joseph HALE m.1890 and
moved to the US. Sarah Jane's Aunt Eliza DAVIES married David PROSSER
m.1862 and moved to the US in 1867. Any connection?
Cheers
Ann, Perth Western Australia - bright and sunny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate" <midge(a)midgekat.123isp.co.uk>
To: <BlaenauGwent-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Bla'Gwent] Tafarnaubach
Rita Smith <rita.s.smith(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
<<I would like to tell all that I have found the Place .
Thanks to Roy who confirmed that I was looking in the right Direction,just
not hard enough.
I found a Baptist Chapel there with a small Cemetery and it might be worth
investigating further.
Rita
from Merthyr
>
Hi Rita & Folks!
What names are you researching in Tafarnaubach? It has been a fairly small
community, usually only a few hundred people living there during the last
two hundred years or so. so if you tell us who you are looking for in
Tafarnaubach, perhaps you'll find somebody else researching some of the same
lines.
For example, I'm researching the family of William MORGAN(S) of CGN Gwnnws &
Margaret JONES of BRE LLanwrtyd, who arrived in Tafarnaubach in the 1850s.
Their descendants include the surnames PRICE, PRITCHARD, PROSSER & WATKINS,
as well as MORGAN(S).
I have the Monumental Inscription fiche for Siloam Chapel, Tafarnaubach,
available from the Gwent FHS at £1.
The fiche that includes Siloam Chapel, also includes Carmel Chapel, Sirhowy,
and a few graveyards in Tredegar - Harcourt Terrace, Ebenezer Indpt, Saron
Indpt, Penuel Chapel, & the Cholera cemetery at Cefn Golau (not the main
cemetery, to the south of the road, and it definitely doesn't cover all the
graves in that part of the cemetery to the north of the road).
Unfortunately, I don't have a fiche reader, and the print quality on this
fiche is too poor to survive processing through my scanner, although many
fiche can be seen that way. Squinting through a magnifying glass, I can
just about make out the contents of the fiche.
Getting back to Siloam Chapel, some of the gravestones had become illegible
by the time of the recording, and some were too covered by brambles for the
writing to be made out, according to the notes accompanying the MIs.
If the people you are researching don't turn out to be buried at Siloam
Chapel, then the nearby Dukestown Cemetery is your best bet.
Best wishes, Kate.
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