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I am researching some of my family that rented a cottage on the Stradey estate
in the eary 1900's. I need the Mansel family's permission before I can access
any records at Carmarthen RO. Does anyone have contact details please for the
family.
Many thanks
Jill
while looking around old grave yards i see some graves have these "wreaths in
glass domes", could anybody tell me if these hold any significance.
Eric jones
Was your dad living in pwll or burry port? My mum lived in burry port. Elwyn netherlands
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Onderwerp: [CMN-L] Amelia Earhart
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Hi Listers
My father related the story of leaving school to go and see the seaplane and
Amelia Earhart. I always assumed he meant down to the docks at Burry Port,
never thought to ask where exactly.
Peggie
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Those of you who know the Gower and surrounding areas will I hope find this of interest,as I certainly did.
Barrie
GOAT'S HOLE CAVE-PAVILAND-GOWER PENINSULA
1823
Rev.William Buckland, Professor of Geology at Oxford and subsequently Dean of Westminster Abbey, decreed that the skeleton, which was found under a covering
of periwinkle,shells, pieces or mammoth ivory as well as 'a coating of ruddle' i.e. red ochre-was that of a 'woman of illrepute' who had plied her trade among Roman
troops based at a nearby camp as a result the body is still known as the Red Lady of Paviland.
Buckland's interpretation was completely wrong, in fact we now know the body is that of the oldest Homo Sapiens skeletons ever found on British soil (only one
older piece of modern human anatomy has ever been found in Britain: A fragment of jawbone, found in Kent's Cavern, Devon, which may be up to 35,000 years old).
Radiocarbon dates have shown the Paviland burial is 26,000 years old. Buckland had not stumbled on a Roman prostitute. He had discovered something far more
important, as Steven Aldhouse-Green, Professor of Human Origins at the University of Wales, points out.
When the "Redlady" skeleton was found, it was the first human fossil recovered anywhere in the world." Buckland-not surprisingly for someone working in the
early 19th century-failed to recognise the skeleton for what it was, more to the point the Red Lady was a man.
Aldhouse-Green's research found that he died in his late 20s, physique slim 'gracile' is the term used by palaeontologists-compared either with burly Homo
Heidelbergensis or the thick set Neanderthalensis, it is estimated he weighed about 11 stone and was about 5' 8" although this figure is only approximate one, because
the skeleton was buried without a skull. Decaptitation was typical of interments of this period. These are known as Gravettian burials and were carried out across
Europe during this time.
A period of our prehistory called the Upper Palaeolithic, it is also possible says Aldhouse-Green, that the skull might have been washed away when floodwaters
swept through Goat Hole Cave at some time after the body had been put in the cave.
Today the Red Lady's grave (the body has been removed to Oxford's Museum of Natural History, much to the disgust of many Welsh Nationalists) can only be reached
by scrambling down a limestone cliff to an entrance which is accessible at low tide. It was a different locale 26,000 years ago. Then the cave would have been 60 miles
from the sea which was far lower than it is today, (Britain was connected by a land bridge to Europe) and would have looked out over plains teeming with prey,
including herds of mammoths and from isotope studies of the Red Lady's bones, it is clear meat formed an important part of his diet as did fish. Scientists speculate
it is possible he and his tribe were in the area to try to catch salmon migrating on the nearby river Seven.
Studies of the Red Lady reveal a picture of a species that was capable of behaving in much more sophisticated ways, displaying considerable adaptability and to judge
from the rituals involved in the burial, they had developed a profound interest in religion and the afterlife.
Aldhouse-Green argues that the whole area around Goat's Hole Cave was probably sacred and a focus for ancient pilgrimages. His evidence shows the cave was
visited regularly by humans for several thousand years beginning about 29,000 years ago. "visits to the cave apparently continued right down to 21,000 years ago in
conditions of increased climatic stress.
By around 20,000 years ago the planet was gripped by an ice age, despite intensive searching, scientists have not been able to find a single sign of human habitation
in the British Isles between 21,000 and 15,000 years ago. The land was either crusted in great sheets of ice or had been turned into tundra that was swept by howling gales and blizzards.
Professor Clive Gamble of Royal Holloway University, London explains "By studying sediment samples taken from the Adlantic seabed, we get very precise estimates
of temperatures across Europe over the past few hundred thousand years and these show the Continent was still gripped by ice age conditions 16,000 years ago-
Europe remained very cold for the next 1,000 years.
Britain became an island about 8,500 years ago when the low lying plain that connected northern Norfolk with Hollond, "we can tell from the peat we extract from the seabed that there were oak forests there, slowly these would have died out as the salt marshes spread and the water rose."
During the Loch Lomond phase around 11,000 years ago (cold spell) no more than 1,100 to 1,200 people in the British Isles. Around 10,000 years ago as the weather warmed the population may have reached 2,400, by around 9,000 years ago there would have been between 2,500 to 5,000 people.
Hi Barrie
There has been an update since Ron wrote that event.......they went back to
the original newspapers which were printed at the time.....and accounts from
people who actually remembered.....
Echoes of a Historic Landing......from 'Looking Around Llanelli'
A necessary warning in that mention of the Earhart achievement revives
controversies as well as memories in the Burry Port area, and in particular
the argument on who was the first to greet the fliers out in the bay.
According to a contemporary report in the Llanelly Guardian, it was Dr.
John, a Llanelli general practitioner, who was in his motorboat. On the
other hand, the Llanelly Argus, the Guardian's stable-mate, advanced the
claims of Capt. Fisher, the manager of Fricker's Metal Works, which
overlooked the harbour, and Mr D Harvey Thomas. They were said to have
pulled out to the aircraft in a dinghy.
The latter version was supported some years ago when, as the result of a
request by an Evening Post reader for an inquiry to settle the issue, I
interviewed Mrs Elizabeth Williams of Stepney Road, Burry Port, who in 1928
lived in quarters above the officers of Fricker's, where her husband Mr
Thomas Williams was works enginer. Mrs Williams told me. "Dai Harvey Thomas
was always helping Capt. Fisher with his boat and they went out to the
seaplane together and brought the fliers back to the works offices. It
became so crowded that they came upstairs for a cup of tea. One of the men
was so tired he fell asleep on the settee. The other, too, was worn out,
but Miss Earhart walked about, chatted and was full of life.
As a souvenir of the occasion, Mrs Williams still had the cup out of which
Miss Earhart drank.....
*****
The Evening Post reader was actually my mother Mrs Mary Russell as she knew
that her father was the one who in fact did row them in....as one would know
of the event, apparently he was given her autograph, but he gave it to his
sister-in-law, no-one to this day knows where it is......
Hope you are well Barrie........
Pauline
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Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 11:56 PM
Subject: [CMN-L] Almelia Earhart
> Hi Pauline,
> Cousin Ron Cant, back in 1968, when he was a reporter for the
> Llanelli Star, wrote an article on the Earhart episode, and this is what
> he say's
> Quote: "Earhart flew over BP up the estuary turned into the wind and
> landed opposite Beach Bach,Pwll and was towed into BP harbour by pilots.
> She first
> stepped ashore where the plaque and stone commemorating the event is
> alongside and just behind the R.N.L.I. station on the harbour east side.
> The cup,
> saucer and plate she was served her refreshments with were on display in a
> cabinet in the old Frickers Works until 2002 and are now in Parc Howard
> Museum.
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Hi Pauline,
Cousin Ron Cant, back in 1968, when he was a reporter for the Llanelli Star, wrote an article on the Earhart episode, and this is what he say's
Quote: "Earhart flew over BP up the estuary turned into the wind and landed opposite Beach Bach,Pwll and was towed into BP harbour by pilots. She first
stepped ashore where the plaque and stone commemorating the event is alongside and just behind the R.N.L.I. station on the harbour east side. The cup,
saucer and plate she was served her refreshments with were on display in a cabinet in the old Frickers Works until 2002 and are now in Parc Howard Museum.
Barrie
Hi Elwyn
Did not know that your mother lived in Stepney Road......the Williams family
next door to your mum is the one who told the press the story that he worked
for Frickers when Amelia etc came into the office for a well earned cup of
tea.......he said it was definately Dai Harvey who rowed them in....
Pauline
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Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [CMN-L] Amelia Earhart
> My mum did the same. She lived at stepney road. Think her neighbour
> williams went to the plane to see them. Elwyn. Netherlands
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> Verzonden: 6 okt. 2010 11:27
>
> Hi Listers
>
> My father related the story of leaving school to go and see the seaplane
> and
> Amelia Earhart. I always assumed he meant down to the docks at Burry
> Port,
> never thought to ask where exactly.
>
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Hi Peggie
yes, the aeroplane was eventually brought to the docks, Captain Fisher is
mentioned in Amelia Earharts auto biography but no-one else, and poor Dai
had to row them all in himself....
Pauline
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Subject: [CMN-L] Amelia Earhart
> Hi Listers
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> My father related the story of leaving school to go and see the seaplane
> and
> Amelia Earhart. I always assumed he meant down to the docks at Burry
> Port,
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My mum did the same. She lived at stepney road. Think her neighbour williams went to the plane to see them. Elwyn. Netherlands
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Onderwerp: [CMN-L] Amelia Earhart
Verzonden: 6 okt. 2010 11:27
Hi Listers
My father related the story of leaving school to go and see the seaplane and
Amelia Earhart. I always assumed he meant down to the docks at Burry Port,
never thought to ask where exactly.
Peggie
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Hi Listers
My father related the story of leaving school to go and see the seaplane and
Amelia Earhart. I always assumed he meant down to the docks at Burry Port,
never thought to ask where exactly.
Peggie
YES i think this info should go on world wide web.The film makers should be
made aware of it before they start rolling cameras
I will try and find out who intends to make the movie .still pooring down
here
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:38 AM, UKGenealogy [Pauline] <genuk3(a)melita.com>wrote:
> Hi John
>
> There has always been controversy over this story, the correct story from
> the time with witnesses is in the local newspapers, claiming that Capt
> Fisher accompanied by Dai Harvey Thomas (my grandfather) rowed Amelia in,
> not on a motor boat, at the time Dai was fixing a boat for Capt Fisher, he
> was not a Captain of the Sea but an Army Captain and they rowed out to see
> what the commotion was, they were in Frickers so that part of the story is
> correct and they took Amelia and co to the Frickers Works Office which was
> on the side of the docks......the plane in was in the Pwll
> estuary.....which
> is just along from Burry Port, apparantly the tide was out at the time so
> they could not have left from Burry Port harbour......The Black Pad was
> Dai's boat not the Black Patch as it had been tarred so often.......he was
> also boat man for Lady Stepney known as Marged Fach....as you know her son
> sent me a picture of Dai on his mothers yacht from their family photograph
> album......
>
> There were other men in the estuary at the time who supposedly did speak to
> her, but it was Dai who rowed them in.......there is a picture in one of
> John Nicholsons books showing this act, but unsure if this is the
> re-enactment or the actual time as there are quite a few people with
> cameras
> on the dockside......it is my grandfather holding the oars......so asuming
> it is the actual picture....Wonder how people could speak to them on the
> plane from land.......not heard that one...
>
> Yes, this always ruffles my feathers......the picture you done for myself
> of
> him, still has pride of place!!!!
>
> Yes getting better thank you
> regards Pauline
> still hot Malta...
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "L Morriss" <l_morriss(a)sky.com>
> To: <carmarthenshire(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 9:07 PM
> Subject: [CMN-L] AMELIA EARHART
>
>
> > HI PAULINE hope your feeling better ,i found this interesting bit that i
> > thought might interest you.
> > Extracted from WALES ON LINE
> > Controversial arguement about the exact place AMELIA landed ,reason a
> Film
> > about AMELIA .
> > Two villages are claiming the place of the FOCKER V11 landed june 18
> 1928.
> > PWLL are adamant that locals shouted to her when she opened the planes
> > door
> > and ask where she was.
> > Market trader DAVID TWIST insists his uncle JOHN DANIELS and DAVIDS
> > Mother
> > Margaret were comming home from school
> > John was age 10 at the time and his reply to AMELIA was {your in PWLL
> > SLIP}
> >
> > Where as BURRY PORT residents say DAI HARVEY THOMAS was n his rowing boat
> > the BLACK PATCH,and when he answered, Amelia slammed shut the plane door
> > She was later towed by motor boat by TOM FRICKERS the local chemical
> > factory owner
> > JON GOWER RADIO and tv producer in his book ,mentions that AMELIA was
> > towed
> > into BURRY port by OSSIE ROBERT ,because PWLL had no port ,OSSIE said the
> > place she came down was not on the shore of burry port and many residents
> > of
> > PWLL talked to AMELIA before her arriving in BURRY PORT/
> > Well that will ruffle your feathers take care best wishes John in very
> wet
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Hello Gavin
Thanks very much for the information. I can now add the word Gower to my
entries before I upload the data to my website. Wasn't sure whether it was
Gower or Lougher side they were on.
Regards
Bryan
www.swanseamariners.org.uk
Hi Gaynor
Glad that I could find something for you......do you want me to look in
other books for information?
I have when South Wales Railway reached Carmarthen in September of
1852.......at the fantastic speed of 15 miles per hour also with no
passengers. This is in 'The Story of Carmarthen' by Joyce and Victor
Lodwick, do you have this book, if so the story is on page 291....
Yes thank you we are getting there slowly.......
regards Pauline
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Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [CMN-L] Pembrey and Burry Port railway
> Hi Pauline
>
> That's great, thanks very much. I looked in a few books but couldn't find
> anything about the station, unfortunately I don't have Book One by John
> Nicholson although I do have books two and three.
>
> Hope you and the family are ok.
>
> Regards
> Gaynor
>
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> [Pauline]
> Sent: 05 October 2010 09:16
> To: carmarthenshire(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: Re: [CMN-L] Pembrey and Burry Port railway
>
> Hi Gaynor
>
> Pembrey and Burry Port Station.
>
> The South Wales Railway Company's broad gauge railway track of 7 feet 0
> 1/4
> inch (disastrously favoured by Isambard Brunel) was laid through the
> parish
> in 1852, and the first engine travelled from Swansea to Pembrey on
> Saturday,
>
> 21st August, 1852. One document mentiones that the South Wales Railway
> Company leased land from Lord Ashburnham in 1847, to build Pembrey Railway
> Station (Pembrey and Burry Port from 1st February 1887), near Cliff
> Terrace,
>
> but that plan was soon abondoned.
>
> *Extracted from Book One by John A Nicholson, Pembrey and Burry Port
> 'Aspects of Their History'
>
> hope this helps.......do you want me to look elsewhere for more
> information
> for you
>
> Pauline
>
>
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> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 3:26 PM
> Subject: [CMN-L] Pembrey and Burry Port railway
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>
>> I'm doing some research for a local schools project. Can anyone tell me
>> when
>> the Pembrey and Burry Port railway station opened please.
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Gaynor
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Hi everyone, this is my first post to the group. I hope someone who knows
Llanelli very well can help me.
I have some relatives buried in the graveyard next to Sunnyhill Lane, adjacent
to Parc Howard Museum, but I cant find the proper name for it or if there used
to be a church there.
Can anyone please help?
Many thanks
Jill Jones
HI PAULINE hope your feeling better ,i found this interesting bit that i
thought might interest you.
Extracted from WALES ON LINE
Controversial arguement about the exact place AMELIA landed ,reason a Film
about AMELIA .
Two villages are claiming the place of the FOCKER V11 landed june 18 1928.
PWLL are adamant that locals shouted to her when she opened the planes door
and ask where she was.
Market trader DAVID TWIST insists his uncle JOHN DANIELS and DAVIDS Mother
Margaret were comming home from school
John was age 10 at the time and his reply to AMELIA was {your in PWLL SLIP}
Where as BURRY PORT residents say DAI HARVEY THOMAS was n his rowing boat
the BLACK PATCH,and when he answered, Amelia slammed shut the plane door
She was later towed by motor boat by TOM FRICKERS the local chemical
factory owner
JON GOWER RADIO and tv producer in his book ,mentions that AMELIA was towed
into BURRY port by OSSIE ROBERT ,because PWLL had no port ,OSSIE said the
place she came down was not on the shore of burry port and many residents of
PWLL talked to AMELIA before her arriving in BURRY PORT/
Well that will ruffle your feathers take care best wishes John in very wet
DEAL
Hi Pauline
That's great, thanks very much. I looked in a few books but couldn't find
anything about the station, unfortunately I don't have Book One by John
Nicholson although I do have books two and three.
Hope you and the family are ok.
Regards
Gaynor
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[Pauline]
Sent: 05 October 2010 09:16
To: carmarthenshire(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CMN-L] Pembrey and Burry Port railway
Hi Gaynor
Pembrey and Burry Port Station.
The South Wales Railway Company's broad gauge railway track of 7 feet 0 1/4
inch (disastrously favoured by Isambard Brunel) was laid through the parish
in 1852, and the first engine travelled from Swansea to Pembrey on Saturday,
21st August, 1852. One document mentiones that the South Wales Railway
Company leased land from Lord Ashburnham in 1847, to build Pembrey Railway
Station (Pembrey and Burry Port from 1st February 1887), near Cliff Terrace,
but that plan was soon abondoned.
*Extracted from Book One by John A Nicholson, Pembrey and Burry Port
'Aspects of Their History'
hope this helps.......do you want me to look elsewhere for more information
for you
Pauline
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Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 3:26 PM
Subject: [CMN-L] Pembrey and Burry Port railway
> I'm doing some research for a local schools project. Can anyone tell me
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> the Pembrey and Burry Port railway station opened please.
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> Gaynor
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Hi Pauline & List,
Its been a while since I have sent a message to the list, but now the nights
are drawing in , its time to start researching again.
I am still trying to find more info on Amy Evans born Meidrim about 1794
according to census.
I would love to find her parents, & be able to go back another generation,
but she is my brick wall & I am knocking my head against it every so often.
She married in Llanegwad church to Thomas Lewis in 1823.
They had 7 children :
Lewis Lewis baptised 13 Feb 1824.Llanegwad
Elizabeth Lewis bap. 6th April 1826.
Anne Lewis bap. 13 April 1828.
John Lewis bap. 20 Sept 1830
Margaret Lewis bap. 9April 1834.
Catherine Lewis [my 2xgreat grandma] no baptism found for her.born approx
1835.
Mary Lewis bap 24 Dec 1844. All at Llanegwad church.
I have had Meidrim church checked for baptisms, no luck, also Llanegwad
church, no luck.
So now I am hoping someone ,somewhere, is researching the same family of
Evan[s] as I am!
So grasping at straws yet again, Is there anyone researching EVAN[S]????and
or LEWIS??
Hoping against hope that this time I will be successful!
Cheers from Jackie in East Sussex.
The only way to look into the future,
Is by standing on the shoulders of the past.