Thanks Pat
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Powell" <pat(a)pcubed.demon.co.uk>
To: <CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Aberavon
Hi Larry
Be careful - The spelling can be Aberafon - BUT Aberfan (i.e without the
middle a) is a completely different place!
Cheers
Pat
In message <004901c02a6a$29f07ba0$76930b3f@LarryHome>, ldchamberlain00
<ldchamberlain00(a)msn.com> writes
>Hi Joe,
>I had relatives in Aberavon, Gla and I discovered in some research the
old
>spelling was Aberfan
>Larry, Tucson
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ray & Diana Nadeau" <fnadeau(a)telusplanet.net>
>To: <CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
>Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 2:45 PM
>Subject: Re: Aberavon
>
>
>> Hi Joseph -
>>
>> On this website
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=274973&Y=190326&a...
&
>zoom=5 , I found Averavon listed as "Aberavon, Aberavon,
Neath Port
>Talbot". It seems by the map that Neath Port Talbot is the district.
>Averavon is a town very near Port Talbot, about 6 or 7 km. south of
Neath.
>>
>> Diana
>> Alberta, Canada
>>
>> joseph gregory wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>> >
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