How wonderful to hear from you and if I had known you
were on Powys-L as
well I would have sent you a big thank you too...for giving me the Jones.
And with so many JONES in my tree..who know when the Stallard/Jones
and /Asthon/Jones/Evans--may cross..
Things are hectic here; what with babysitting children and elderly;
trying to do my yard and housework and still find time to socialize and
do genealogy.
Still I love a busy organized life...and when I get caught up again..
Thank you for popping in.. I will think and see if I come up with
something I need you to check on.
I think the best part of seeking the family tree is finding out the
lives of those in it...Take my Ann Ashton..she had to have been the
midwife who delivered the famous Charles Asshton the Literary
Policeman..due to where he was born,and realtionship to him.. he is her
nephew.
I know there are a couple of people from Llandudno in my other side of
tree...becuase I thought of you and wondered if you knew about them..
Will check later...to find them
Kindly regards Darlene
Hello Darlene.
Bit of a surprise (but a pleasant one) to find you on this list.
Stallards get everywhere!
Fred Stallard married my Nain (Welsh for grandmother) who was Rose
Jones, born in Welshpool and whose parents John and Ann Jones (nee
Jones) were born in Llanfair Caereinion and Llanwyddelan respectively.
I'm focussing hard on Ann and John at present and trying to put some
flesh on the bones of their social history but I'm finding it hard
going. They were both `menial/servant/farm labouring` stock and
written social history of ordinary people from that area seems to be
scarce indeed. For instance I got a really good book recently, `Hope
and Heartbreak,` A Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1776 -
1871. Smashing book, excellently researched and with numerous
examples from courts records etc., and some of the content harrowing
and lurid recording grindingly hard times. But - plenty of content
about N Wales, S Wales and West Wales - very little about the area
around Welshpool.
And that area, as I discovered first hand in March, is very beautiful
but subtly different from the rest of Wales in its topography. I
suspect the social history is also different in many respects with
the cross-border connections and relationships with Shropshire.
I visited the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society offices but what
they could offer was limited (they don't really deal in family social
history as such). One excellent source I came across in Welshpool
library though was the Powysland Club (an archeological society)
records which runs to many hard back volumes stretching over about
three centuries. They are really collections of members' papers and
essays over the years but they provide a real local perspective. The
problem is that they're not available in Libraries here in Norfolk or
Suffolk and I suspect it would cost a fortune for the libraries to
obtain them on request so the only practical way to research them is
to go to Welshpool. I wish they were online.
I'm planning a trip to the National Library of Wales at the end of
June (combining it with a mental health conference in Aberystwyth on
27th) to see what I can rake up there. If there's anything you'd like
me to have a gander at, let me know.
Heddwch
Mike.
Mike Llywelyn Cox
micoxcox(a)btinternet.com
http://micoxpplog.blogspot.com
A
http://www.solnetwork.org.uk member.
Family History
www.wotashower.co.uk
On 26 May 2008, at 21:48, Larry Best wrote:
> Thank you for all the help I recieved on Powy-s in getting our tree
> Ashton/Evans together.
> And a special thank you to Julie Preston who went out of her way to
> look up all the census and information on Mary Jones from
> Llanbrynmair for us.. We truly appreciate all everyone of you did.
> Darlene
>
> ===================
> 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
===================
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