The 1 Samuel 7:12 reference is echoed in the well-known, though not
specifrically Welsh, hymn, Come thou fount of every blessing:
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Hither by Thy help I've come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it;
Seal it for Thy courts above.
Ian G.
Pantteg SA9
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From: "Jennifer Cairns" <jenmathias(a)gmail.com>
To: "Bettye Kirkwood" <lki59595(a)bigpond.net.au>; "P PARRY"
<richard.parry100(a)btinternet.com>
Cc: <glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com>; <dyfed(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [GLA] [Dyfed] The name of EBENEZER
Dear Richard,
1 Samuel 7:12
"Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and named it
Ebenezer, saying, "Thus far the Lord has helped us."
(another popular Welsh chapel name commemorating a stone is Bethel, which
was the stone on which Jacob was sleeping when he had his vision of angels.)
Ebenezer is a fairly common name for a chapel, eg Capel Ebenezer, Llangybi
(Cardiganshire) - Annibynnol - founded 1771/2 and still open.
A rough search has shown 2,242 Eben/Ebenezer records from ? to c. 2004. in
Cardiganshire alone... so yes, a popular name in earlier times.
Jen
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From: Bettye Kirkwood <lki59595(a)bigpond.net.au>
To: P PARRY <richard.parry100(a)btinternet.com>
Cc: "dyfed(a)rootsweb.com" <dyfed(a)rootsweb.com>;
"glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com"
<glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, 21 April 2014, 0:19
Subject: Re: [Dyfed] The name of EBENEZER
Dear Richard,
Quite a few years ago I was asked by the late Dillwyn Miles, author and
several times Mayor of Newport, Pembrokeshire, to find out if the
delightfully situated Ebenezer Church on the banks of the Hawkesbury River,
New South Wales, was named for Ebenezer Gronow.....a Pemb. native who
emigrated, settled his family there, and whose final resting place it is. I
visited, and a church pamphlet stated the church was 'built on the rock'
which was a biblical interpretation of the name Ebenezer.
In Pembrokeshire, at least, in a certain period of time,the name Ebenezer
was extremely common as we're many biblical names ....I had trouble myself
with an Esay which could be a variation of Esau, but I have never heard
variations of Ebenezer, except perhaps Eben.
Ebenezer Gronow, incidentally, was a whaler and sealer and spent a lot of
time in New Zealand waters...in fact I think he was responsible for naming
Milford Sound.
Bettye Kirkwood, Australia
Sent from my iPad
On 21 Apr 2014, at 3:14 am, P PARRY
<richard.parry100(a)btinternet.com>
wrote:
Dear Fellow Family Historians
I am having great difficulty finding one of my ancestors called Ebenezer
Rees (a carpenter) according to his daughter (Mary Rees) marriage
certificate when she married Morgan Parry on 30th Dec 1840 in the chapel
of Strata Florida in Caron.
I am wondering if the name of EBENEZER is known as anything else. I have
found the residence of Mary at the time of marriage to be Rhosgellugron in
Caron, but I have a hunch that Ebenezer (or whatever his name is!) may
have travelled up from either Glamorgan or maybe Carmarthenshire.
Can anyone shine any light on the name of EBENEZER ?? Has anyone else had
problems with the name EBENEZER
Please also forward this message onto any other message groups that you
feel may be able to help
Many thanks in advance
Richard Parry
email - Richard.parry100(a)btinternet.com
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