Hi Jos
Glad the information put the mileage into perspective......interesting
thought about 'moths' but I have never tried to look too clearly at them,
because from a very young age I've been afraid of them.
A blowlamp is I suppose similar to a blowtorch - a blowlamp has a handle, is
filled with parafin and a match (light) is put to it to set it alight - I
remember my father using one but have not seen one for a very long
time.......I suppose it was used to solder...
Looks like there are more nicknames to add to the collection.
Hope all in well on the mountain top....
Pauline
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Gregory <nandjgregory(a)earthlink.net>
To: CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com <CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: 31 July 2001 16:03
Subject: [Cmn-L] Chapels and millers
Pauline thanks for the info on the Jerusalem and
Carmel Chapels. Things are much closer to each other than I'd
imagined.
Saturday while cutting the grass I was
thinking about the Evans family and their occupation, i.e. "Millers".
I'm sure that there are moths in Wales, the ones
that congregate at lights at night? Well my mother always referred to them
as "millers". I don't know if that is what they are called in Wales, but on
Saturday I figured out the why she called them "millers". Imagine
the appearance of flour mill workers. They were no doubt covered with flour
dust
and if you look closely at a moth, you'll see that they too are
covered with a dust like substance, which is no doubt waterproofing. Hence
"MILLERS"!
Another of life's mysteries solved through
genealogy research.
There was a Welsh nickname mentioned, someone
called "Blowlamp" because he had a short haircut. Do I rightly assume that
a "blowlamp" is what we call a "blowtorch", a metal container, with a
handle,
filled with gasoline/petrol, which fed the fuel to the burner unit by
a pump built into the container and used by plumbers to melt solder? At any
rate, what has the "blowlamp" to do with haircuts, unless they are handled
carelessly and the operator singes his hair?
Here are two more nicknames that I'd read in a
book.
One man was called "Dai piano" because he was
constantly bumming cigarettes from others, because, he'd "left his pack of
cigarettes on the piano".
Another was called "Dai Yank" because he'd once
spent a WEEK in the United
States. Jos.
Gregory
The Gregorys
Pen y Mynydd
Coed gyda Penn
(Mt. Top, Pa.)
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