Hello listers!
There was talk earlier about placing family time-lines next to historical
timelines as a means of understanding the society, work and life our
ancestors led. This was to me a wonderful idea, so I went out searching
on my own. Someone may have already posted this link. If so, please
forgive me posting it again, but it just seems to rich a site to miss.
This is not the beginning of the link, but for the years 1784 to 1794.
By clicking on the links running on the side of the page, other time
frames are available. Not only is this vital information (in my humble
opinion, as a relative newcomer) for Wales, but it also interrelates with
other emigration matters, influences the Welsh had in other lands and on
other thoughts of the period.
http://www.britannia.com/celtic/wales/timeline/tl12.html
Please take a moment and visit it. It may not be the end all answer to
many questions about the area and it's people, but it surely gave me a
much greater understanding of the transformation of the iron and coal
industries, which was my goal when I began looking.
Best wishes in your endeavors,
Dawn Perry-Taft e-mail: slo_taft(a)juno.com
CALLEN/ CALLIN/ COLLEN in Llangattock, BRE, Aberystruth Parish &
Beaufort, MON 1810-1865
DAVIES/DAVIS in Ebbw Vale, MON & Eardsley, HFD, 1815-1885
MAGGS in Abergavenny, MON, 1845-1865
DANDO in Wales 1805-1865
MORRIS in Machen, GLA Pre- 1815
SMITH, Thomas descendants Yarkhill, Ledbury, HFD 1851+