Hi, all,
I've found Trevethin on
multimap.com just a few miles northwest of Pontypool, but
I'm not sure whether it is in Carmarthenshire or Glamorgan, so I'll copy this
message to both lists. I'm hoping to find SKS who lives near the church and could look
inside and give more info about the following.
My great-uncle William David Leigh travelled in the area in 1890 and wrote in his journal
that they walked to Trevethin Church, which has "a very large Cemetry where there are
a great many dead buried. We were invited to see Squire Leigh's Vaults where he is
buried inside the Church. The floor being covered with Tombstones."
He gave no dates etc for "Squire Leigh" and nothing on whether he believed
himself related. Our people were much less grand than squires and "Leigh" is a
common name, but still I'd like to check it out. I haven't found the name
Trevethin on any of the online resources I've looked at. Hopefully something is
available?
TIA for anything.
Norma Leigh Rudinsky