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In December 1896, Helena BUTLER was born to her parents John and Minnie
BUTLER, living in Margaret Street, St Thomas, Swansea. John BUTLER was a
bridge erector, PROBABLY working for the family firm Samuel Butlers
Stanningley Ironworks, near Leeds.
Would anybody have records of bridges built in or around Swansea in 1896?
Any information greatly appreciated as we are trying to piece together John
Butler's engineering career. He was drowned at a bridge accident in Khartoum
in 1908.
Monika Butler
Hi
Heres all I could find in St Marys but will keep an eye out for you line
St Marys
Baptisted Thomas Lewtas Son of Thomas No Mother given on 26 may 1806
no age given
Deaths as Stated
Ann Lewtas 14 Nov 1822 aged 58
Eliza Lewtas 9 Apr 1821 aged 17
Brain Davies
Swansea
Hi All
I am new to the list,and wondered if anyone may be able to help me.
I found on Family History Online the following Eliza Lewas buried 9 Apr 1921 aged 17 Swansea St Mary
Ann Lewtas 14 Nov 1822 aged 58 Swansea St Mary. Doe's anyone have access to the parish records for the above period or earlier. I am trying to find any births or marriages of the Lewtas family in the area.
Regards
Frank
Leek and Potato Soup
1 lb (450 g) potatoes
2 carrots
1 lb (450 g) leeks
1/2 pint (300 ml) chicken stock
1/2 pint (300 ml) milk
salt and black pepper
1 teaspoon mace
Peel and slice the potatoes and peel and chop the carrots. Add to the
chicken stock in a saucepan and boil for 15 minutes. Cut the leeks into
rings and add, continuing to boil until all the vegetables are soft.
Pour into a blender and blend for a few seconds. Put back in the
saucepan, season to taste and add the milk. Reheat and serve.
(This is a good soup, one of my daughter in laws makes it but she
doesn't blender it.)
Please feel free to add to our March and Lenten recipes.
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Leek and Ham Soup
1 onion
1 oz (25 g) butter
1 oz (25 g) flour
1 pint (600 ml) water or white stock
6 leeks
Ham, 5 thin slices or cuts off the bone
1/4 pint (150 ml) milk
Salt and black pepper
Single cream
Slice the leeks and chop the ham. Chop the onion and fry in the butter
until soft. Add the flour and cook for another minute while stirring.
Continue stirring while the stock or water is added and boil gently
until the soup thickens. Put in the leeks and ham and simmer for 30
minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour into a blender and blend for a few
seconds. Add the milk and stir in, then season with salt and pepper to
taste. Before serving, remove from heat and stir in a little cream.
(Sounds good to me. However, I think I'd like it better without the
blender step.)
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Laverbread with Oatmeal and Bacon
8 oz (225 g) laverbread
4 slices smoked bacon
Oatmeal
Salt and black pepper
Dice and fry the bacon, and stir in the laverbread. Add oatmeal to the
frying pan, with black pepper and a little salt to season, and stir
together while continuing to fry gently. When crisp and brown on both
sides, serve hot.
Wondering where you can get laverbread?? Did a google search and found:
http://www.wales-direct.co.uk/main.asp?mCat=4&sCat=389
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From the Irish Birthday Book: Saint David's Day
Irish proverb: Through wisdom is good in the beginning, it is better in
the end.
From Chronicle of Celtic Folk Customs by Brian Day:
March with its lengthening days was a hard-working month for the Celts,
and relatively little time was spent festively. Cold dry March winds
were feared for their effect on shoots, as Isle of Man weatherlore tells
us. The people there, and other Celts, started ploughing and sowing.
Brittany had abundant weatherlore this month. The tide brought seaweed
for food and fertilizer, and was much used by the Scots, Irish and
Welsh. Apart from collecting seaweed for fertilizer, the type of
seaweed called laver was eaten. In Wales it was collected mainly on the
south coast, and washed and boiled (for about five hours) to form a
gelatinous purée called laverbread. Laverbread with oatmeal and bacon
was served for breakfast (will post recipe in another post).
1st March St. David's Day
CELTIC St. David is the patron saint of Wales who died this day in AD
589. He founded St. David's Abbey in Pembrokeshire, know for its strict
regime and life of austerity. He was said to have saved the monastery
at Glyn Rhosyn from destruction by Irish invaders by converting them to
Christianity. A daffodil is worn, and leeks are eaten. St. David is
known to have been a vegetarian, modeling his spartan existence on that
of the desert monks of Egypt. Leeks are said to drive evil spirits away
and to purge the blood, especially if eaten in March. this may explain
their adoption as an emblem of Wales and by Welsh troops, the latter
practice first recorded at the Battle of Meigen in the 7th century. It
is said that St. David gave the idea to the Welsh leader Cadwallader for
his battles against the Saxons. King Arthur, whom the Welsh claim to be
one of their own, was said to have insisted his troops wear a leek in
their caps to be distinguished from their Saxon foe. St. David was also
the patron of flocks and ships. David's mother St. Non adopted the
daffodil as a symbol because it grew in the Vale of Aeron where her son
was born. It became the Welsh national emblem in 1907, being championed
by LloyGeorge.
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