Thanks Dawn for your kind interests and thoughts about your folks from
Wales. Did you see the old Millbank Prison cell photos in the London Pub
where some would have left for Tasmania??
I knew a young Yourath Walters from the Llanelly area in 1949/50 at a GPO
Engineering Training School in Penarth when we were on Courses there,. and I
was was told later that he went off to Canada.
I also knew a Stanton boy in our local Llandrindod Wells Grammar School
.His father was a GPO Engs man in various Radio Stations doing work on main
GPO main Arials, and at Madley, Hereford, and at the Goonhilly Satellite
Station in Cornwall, where he died a few years ago with the ISM Medal for his
work.
Family History is all of that as you said, and I have found relatives in
USA and OZ and South Africa in the past 20 years that none of us here had
ever heard of, all linked to my Montgomeryshire Cleaton family. There was a
distinct lack of any records or letters from those who left here in the early
1800 days, due to the lack of a general Education in the UK then. More of
that and all the new Railways, Ships,Planes, Wars, and Telephones to the
Internet have given us a host of stuff to see now, with too much at times!!!
With Best Wishes ,
Dennis Cleaton, RAD, Powys, UK
_dcleatond(a)aol.com_ (mailto:dcleatond@aol.com)
In a message dated 17/04/2010 09:28:27 GMT Daylight Time,
dandh(a)intas.net.au writes:
Dear POWYS Listers - what an interested and interesting group you are! and
John, just look where your Retrospective on Llanelly has taken us!
I am very grateful for all the informed input, my question about Llanelly
has initiated; and for the fact that so many of you are true Family
HISTORIANS, appreciating that the human story is
dictated by past societies, not merely 'who begat who'.
It's possible the Sarah WATERS/WALTERS baptised in LLanelly in 1817 is my
gggGranny (hopefully LDS film will provide more info), but in the meantime,
I feel privileged to discover so much about her land and her people...I've
been to Pendre Farm; I've been to Llangattock Mountain with Clive, I've
been to Llanelly Church with John, discovered the beautiful narrative of
Gareth Jones and so many landmarks and towns along the way, as I struggle to
understand my distant history and geography in places I can't even say.
To put that in perspective - where my ancestor may have been baptised at
Llanelly, according to John's Retrospective, the Yew trees growing in the
churchyard are 4 times older than my country's European history!
Thanks all Listers for all the help so far, for generously sharing local
knowledge and for so much interesting reading. My little 'will 'o the wisp'
is still hiding there somewhere, but I'm finding more leads every time I
visit the List; meantime, enjoying the visit.
Kind regards,
Dawn Stanton (Tasmania)
===================
Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at:
www.jlb2005.plus.com/powyslist.htm
-------------------------------
To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to
POWYS-request(a)rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the
subject and
the body of the message