The places you mention are Gellideg and Heolwermod. They were two of the hamlets of
Merthyr Tydfil. For more information
on Heolwermod see: http://oldmerthyr1.proboards.com/thread/1474/heolwermwd
Gellideg was west of the centre of Merthyr;
see: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/sheet/first_edition/sheet36 which shows
Gellideg and Pentrebach. Spellings varied a lot in the nineteenth century.
There are many possible sources for maiden names apart from parish marriage registers. For
example, I have found maiden names of women who never set foot in the United States in the
death certificates of their children who died in Brooklyn and in Massachusetts.
Best wishes,
Seán (Montreal)
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From: MARC ARCHER <marcher56(a)att.net>
To: "glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com" <glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [GLA] Hamlets of Gollydog & ? Heohuormwood?
List,
I'm looking at census entries for 1861 that list the Hamlets of Gollydog in
the eclesiastical district of Pentrebach, also what looks like the hamlet of
Heohuormwood, also in Pentrebach. I was expecting to find them in Abercanaid, which I
know is near Pentrebach. Does anyone know of these places? Or their proximity to each
other? Or can decipher the Heohuormwood?
Also, with the help of a generous fellow-listee, I've found what I believe to
be my ancestors, on the 1861 census, William Davies ae 54 b. Merthyr Tydfil and his wife
Mary b. Llanyfelach ae 50, and William Morgan ae 49 b. Aberdare, and his wife Margaret ae
46, b. Merthyr Tydfil. Since they were married before compulsory registration, but might
be on the 1841 census, is the only way of finding the wives' maiden names a parish
marriage?
Many thanks,
Marc Archer
Ludington, MI
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