Jeane Randolph <jgrandolph(a)juno.com> wrote:
On a 6 August 1840 letter, heading was written "Cyvyderen." Letters were
from a Jane Davies to her daughter Hannah & husband John Owens, Shoemaker in
Ohio, USA. She mentioned farm crops and Newtown.
Julie Preston <juliefpreston(a)sbcglobal.net> responded:
In the 1851 Census, there were 2 farms in the parish of Kerry (near
Newtown), Little Cefnyberen and Great Cefnyberen. By 1881, there was also a
third called Cefnyberen.
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Dear Jeane,
I agree with Julie's suggestion that your "Cyvyderen" or
"Cevenderen" are
corrupted spellings of Cefnyberen.
The modern Ordnance Survey Landranger series map (sheet 136) shows "Great
Cefnyberin" at co-ordinates 319600,291900 which places it five miles due
east of Newtown.
A 1940's Ordnance Survey "One-Inch" series map (sheet 128) shows
"Great
Cefn-y-berin" at the same location.
The 1:10,560-scale late 19th century map (at
www.old-maps.co.uk/) shows
"Great Cefn-y-berin" at the same location, plus "Little Cefn-y-berin"
just
three fields to the south.
On the main page of the Old Maps website, select the "Co-ordinates" option
in the search facility (near top left of the page). In the search field
enter the co-ordinates 319648,291669 (without any spaces) and click the
Search button. When the small map appears, click on the "Enlarged view"
button below the map. A highly detailed large map of the area will open in a
new window, centred roughly halfway between Great Cefn-y-berin and Little
Cefn-y-berin.
You can save the enlarged view map to your hard disc by clicking on the map
with your right mouse button and selecting the "Save Picture As..." option
in the menu which appears.
The 1881 census records show Great Cefnyberen to be a 100-acre farm and
Little Cefnyberen to be a 92-acre farm. "Cefnyberen" is enumerated next to
Cwmberllan, a 520-acre farm situated less than ½ mile northeast of Great
Cefnyberen farm. Possibly Cefnyberen (as recorded in the 1881 census) wasn't
itself a farm, but a cottage on Great Cefnyberen land?
According to Kain and Oliver (2001), all of the above farms were in the
township of "Cefnyberin" in the parish of Kerry.
[Source: "Historic Parishes of England & Wales" by Roger J. P. Kain and
Richard R. Oliver, published 2001 by History Data Service, University of
Essex, Colchester. ISBN 0-9540032-0-9]
Kind regards,
John
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John Ball, Ystalyfera, South Wales, UK
E-mail: wfha(a)clara.co.uk
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