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)