Hugh Wallis <HughWallis(a)home.com> wrote:
My VAUGHANs lived at "The Wern Farm" in Goetre, Mon in the 1870s. In the
1881 census I see the name Wern appears in many home names throughout
Wales. Looking up "Wern" in the online Welsh dictionary I get
gwern [-i, -ydd, f.]
(n.) swamp, meadow; alder grove
gwernen [gwern, f.]
(n.) alder tree
Is it reasonable to conclude that "gwern" would have been mutated to
produce "Wern" when used in this context and that, therefore, the farm
would have been named for the alders that grew there?
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Hi Hugh,
Your logic is immaculate - exactly right! :o)
(See also the "Glossary of Welsh Place-name Elements" on my Welsh Family
History Archive website)
Best wishes,
John
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John Ball (living near Ysgol-y-Wern, off Pen-y-Wern Road, Ystalyfera
South Wales, UK)
E-mail: wfha(a)clara.co.uk
Welsh Family History Archive:
http://home.clara.net/wfha/wales/index.htm
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