Hi Pamela
Following on from my e-mail last night, I've had some success through the
Historical Directories
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp
website, which I think will be of interest to you.
If you go to the above website and select 'Find by location', and then, on
the pull-down menu which appears, select 'Wales' - on page 1 (Directories
1 - 10) you will find 'Slater's Directory of Glos, Herefs, Mon, Shrops &
Wales, 1868', for which you should select: 'Directory'. Click 'Browse
Directory' and then, in the 'Go to Image' box, type: 658. This will take you
to the relevant title page for Newtown & district, including the village of
Bettws (Directory Page No. 102). You can check the surrounding place names
to see that this does include the correct 'Bettws'.
If you then go to Image No. 661 (Directory Page No. 105), you will find a
list of the farms 'IN BETTWS PARISH' - down the bottom RHS of the page and
rolling over onto the next page. The third in the list is: Thomas Brown,
living at Pen y freed. I think, upon checking all the other names, that this
must be the farm to which Evan Jones referred. The directory would have been
compiled in 1867, which is only three years after the will was written.
If you then go to Image No. 664 (Directory Page No. 108), under the heading
'Taverns and Public Houses', you should be able to find: Lion, Thomas
Morgan, Bettws.
This tallies up with the grandson's name which you have mentioned below and
also the census research by John Ball, as detailed in his e-mail earlier
today. John has also located 'Pen-y-fridd' for you, which I think must be
the same place as 'Pen y freed' in the directory.
Perhaps someone can trace the farm managed by Thomas Brown for you, through
the census records?
Best regards
Clive Gardener
www.secret-bottletop.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamela Griffiths" <pamelag(a)orcon.net.nz>
To: <POWYS(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 10:46 PM
Subject: [POWYS] MGY a farm called the Freed in Bettws Cedewain
Hi. Does anyone know where this farm was in Bettws. In the 1864 will
of
Evan JONES (blacksmith & innkeeper in Bettws village) he also has 'my
Farm called the Freed situate in the Parish of Bettws..' He bequeathed
it to his grandson Thomas MORGAN, who had lived with him since childhood.
regards, Pamela
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