Hello List:
I have just joined and this is my first posting to this list. I am trying to help a
friend who is not on this list, but who has been doing genealogy for some time, and is
just getting her feet wet with her Welsh family. She was given an old family Bible with
no names or entries in it, but it has several newspaper clippings placed in it. No
newspaper names or dates, just to make it a little harder of coarse. This is one of the
clippings which was all in Welsh and she had it translated to read:
"A very bad accident happened at Mhwll-y-Patch Abernant. David WATKINS and Thomas
DAVIES were trapped under heavy timbers in a coal mine. They were able to free Thomas
DAVIES who was badly hurt but David WATKINS died before they could reach him. David
WATKINS was a single man, 36 years old, living at John Street. He was buried on Saturday
at Cendl Cemetary." There are 4 counties in Wales with the Village of Abernant in
them: Glam, Denbigh, Montgomeryshire and Monmouth. It was Gareth from the Glam. list who
suggested I try you lot, as he felt this was perhaps in Mon. The only thing my friend
knows about David WATKINS is he had 2 sisters, Margaret bapt. cr. 1835, Glam; and Martha
bap. cr. 1840 MON. She thinks David is older. Does anyone know of Cendl Cemetary? Or
does the name of the coal mine Mhwll-y-Patch sound familiar to anyone? Any help or
suggestions as to where these places could be would be most appreciated.
Iechydd Da
Bridget in Canada
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