Shirley -
Thank you for the response and the website. The website has grown since I
last looked at it years ago. I have no way of knowing if the Aubreys are
related to the Obrays of Pembrokeshire. The only hope I have of discovering
a tie to the two spellings is thru DNA. I'm hoping that one day an Aubrey
or two will take a DNA test and we can compare. Many of my Obray cousins
think (hope) that the two spellings are related. I was kind of hoping for
cowboys and pirates for my ancestors, rather than earls and Quakers. It
would be so much more interesting.
I did find an Obrey family at Anglesey on the 1801 census and another in
London in the early 1700's. The London Obrey was living amongst the Jewish
settlement, and I thought at first they may have been Ashkenazi Jews, but
that has not proved to be the case. (I've since learned there really are
Romanian Gypsies living in the U.K. and many of them camped out near
Freystrop in Pembrokeshire. Hence my joke about gypsies.) I suppose anyone
could have migrated up the coast from the Baltics several thousand years
ago, but the people in the U.K. seem to have a predominate haplogroup in
their DNA. The Obray DNA seems to be the oddball, especially for Wales.
I've received so many nice replies to my query, and I need to address each
of them with a Thank You. It has certainly given me some things to think
about.
Lynne in Tucson
-----Original Message-----
From: Shirley W. Vinall
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 4:53 AM
To: powys(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [POWYS] "Roll call" - members' interests
Lynne - To answer your question, Cathedine is about 9 miles east of Brecon,
near Llangorse Lake; Ystradgynlais about 16 miles (by modern roads) to the
south-west. The Aubreys and connected families held extensive lands in the
county; and there is a mention on this website of a link with the Vaughan
family of Cathedine - but earlier than your people:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janet/Awbrey.html
And yes, the Ystradgynlais Aubrey line became the Goughs.
(By the way, since the Normas were descended from Vikings and others could
they not have noriginated in the Baltic?)
Best wishes,
Shirley
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