Hello Joe
Have a look at this Slater's Directory for Aberavon:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Aberavon/slaters-Port_Talbot.html
The birthplace listed in the census should be the "parish of birth" rather
than the town/village. However, if someone didn't know their parish, and
the enumerator didn't either, then the entry under "birth place" would be
the town/village. However, in talking to a reporter, your ggm would almost
certainly state her town/village of birth rather than a parish.
Hope this helps,
Pam
in New Zealand
In celebration of my gt grandmother's 81st birthday in 1935,
here in
Pennsylvania, her picture and a brief biography was printed in the local
newspaper. The article stated that she was born in "Aberavon, S. Wales".
However the 1881 UK census lists her birthplace as Neath which we think
is correct because that same census lists her brother James Beynon
(Where are you Jimmy Beynon?) as having also been born in Neath. Is
there such a place as Aberavon and if there is, could it be part of
Neath or is it just on error on the part of the newspaper or the person
who provided the info to the newspaper, probably one of her children.
The first of the season "V" of about 100 Canada geese flew over our
house this morning, heading south, the male Goldfinches are once again
wearing their olive drab winter feathers, the Robins have all but
disappeared, and the leaves are about to put on their flaming fall
spectacular here in the Pennsylvania mountains.
Are there signs of the coming winter among the avain residents of Wales and
having only been there in the summer, what do the leaves on the trees in
Wales do in the fall.
Jos. Gregory
#2065
Mt. Top, Pa.