Dear Dennis, Peter and All
You're right Dennis. Gwyllt (slightly different spelling) is the Welsh for
wild. According to
http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=English...,
'*wild, a wild, extravagant, an extravagant, savage, ferocious, mad,
rapid'. *
**Nant.means stream or brook and in Welsh the adjective generally follow the
noun. So Nant Gwyllt is would be the correct Welsh for 'wild stream' and
could well have been anglicised to 'Nantgwilt'.
Best wishes
Martin
On 15 April 2011 23:09, Peter J. Richardson <pjrich.ntl(a)googlemail.com>wrote:
Hello Dennis,
Thanks for the welcome, and the information.
I read somewhere (possibly from the archives of this list) that GWILT
is Welsh for Wild. If this is so it might feature in a lot of
placenames not necessarily relevant to my family history.
Unfortunately I am not a Welsh linguist myself so I tried my luck with
Google. Nant seems to mean stream, so perhaps Nantgwilt is Wild
Stream?
Whilst in Shropshire earlier this week I did find a transcript of the
Kerry that might help Peter Brook if he is still on this list - he
posted in the dim yonder about an Edward Gwilt b.c.1828 who married
Jane Corbett. I suspect that he was born in Radnorshire (Ryther Oak,
Beguildy) though baptised in Kerry, Montgomeryshire on 10th February
1828.
Regards
Peter
----- Original Message ----- From: <DCLEATOND(a)aol.com>
To: <powys(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [POWYS] MGY: GWILT
> Hello Peter, and Welcome to Powys List,
>
> There was a large house in the Elan Valley, Rhayader, RAD, called
Nantgwilt
> that was demolished when the water flooded the area of the lower Dam that
> may interest you?? The top end of the higher Dam is in
> MGY Llangurig Parish .
> .
> Dennis Cleaton, RAD, Powys, _dcleatond(a)aol.com_ (mailto:
dcleatond(a)aol.com)
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