Hi Joe
Jane Evans is not in Jerusalem Chapel monumentals, it is not to say that she
is not buried here.
Jerusalem was the mother chapel of both Jerusalam and Carmel - Carmel broke
away from Jerusalem soon after it was built in 1828.
There are records for Jerusalem Chapel available in the CRO and PRO you
could order these from your local LDS if you needed to view them......I also
know that records have been kept by the minister for this chapel, my Davies
family has a row of three headstones here side by side, the main headstone
has the names and dates of all the children who died young, even a
grandchild. The older boys though they only have a stone to mark their
burial plot.
In distance Jerusalem chapel is on Achddu which is the main road from
Llanelli to Pembrey - there is a turning right by this chapel, if you follow
the steep winding road about 2 miles it will eventually end at Carmel
Chapel, you cannot travel further than this by car, only on foot.
Furnace Llanelli is not that far from Carmel, not if you are walking over
the mountain top, which was the way to travel at the time we are talking
about - by road now it is about 4 (four) miles......we are only a small
country, so nothing in your standards is far from anywhere......
Achddu mill where Evan Evans lived is only a few hundred yards from
Jerusalem chapel. Carmel Chapel from here was towards Cwm Capel then onto
the Chapel......Achddu is still the same today,not much has changed in this
area........just a few more modern houses.
hope this helps
Pauline
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Gregory <nandjgregory(a)earthlink.net>
To: CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com <CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: 27 July 2001 16:56
Subject: [Cmn-L] Jersulaem Chapel
Val speed, thanks for the tip re the
Jerusalem Chapel. The last reference to Jane Rees Evans we have
is from the 1851 census when she et fam. were living in Furnace. Not having
any
sense of distances in Wales, are the Carmel and Jerusalem Chapels near
Furnace?
The tradition of nicknames was certainly transplanted
to America, some of which were unkind, to say the least. A friend of my
grandmother who had a rather prominent chin was called, but probably not to
her
face, "Mae the goat".
A friend of my mothers was always called
'Mary Buchan", and of course I thought
that was her last name even though her husband and children were named
Davis.
Years later I learned that "Mary Buchan's" father, James
Williams, had
picked up the nickname "Jimmy Buchan", so his whole family were called
"Buchan", which I even later learned was a corruption of "Bachgan" or
"boy"
so
the father's nickname had been, before the corruption,
"Jimmy
boy".
The Gregorys
Pen y Mynydd
Coed gyda Penn
(Mt. Top, Pa.)
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