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From: David Thomson <>
Subject: Cwmsidan etc.
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 99 07:03:05 +0100


To:Bob Holloway < 3.freeserve.co.uk>

Subject:Cwmsidan etc.

Bob

Thanks for yours of 29 April 1999. I have been delayed responding as I have been away for most of May mainly in Wales during which time I was able to do a bit more research.

Cwmsidan. Your ref to Maesygroes is interesting as I cannot remember anything but Cwmsidan Fawr and my OS map of Carmarthenshire dated 1831 shows only C Fawr and Cwmsidan Fach about a quarter of a mile away. Clearly it has been a ruin for many, many years. I was interested in your reference to the main road as it is really nothing more than a very narrow lane. I can recall sometime in the '40s my mother, sister and myself struggling up Cwmsidan hill on our way to visit the Thomases at Greenhill when admidst a great deal of noise a herd of cows came running full pelt towards us. We escaped onto the bank where we were greeted by Daniel Thomas with a big grin on his face and the words that he knew we were on the way and thought he would give us a fright! He succeeded.

I have just come across a little book by Brenda M James entitled "Fond Memories of TaIIey"
published in 1994 by Modern Welsh Publications Ltd of Liverpool - ISBN 0901332399 priced
£8 and it makes excellent reading with many references to local families. She makes several
references to Esgairnant Calvinistic Methodist Chapel at Talley and mentions my step-
grandfather David Evans who was an Elder there. I can recommend the book enthusiastically.

I note your interests in the surname Davies (Talley). My paternal grandmother was a Davies from Penybank farm (Uansadwrn) and I have much information on them if interested. I am also beginning to gather information on Thomases (Talley). There was a family living at Tanylan farm (Llansadwrn) before my paternal grandfather took over there at the turn of the century. They consisted of three spinster ladies and an unmarried brother. They are buried at Hermon Chapel with other family members now resting at Waunclynda Chapel. Do you have anything on them please?

Thomases also lived at Aberdaunant farm (Llansadwm) next to Tanylan which has just recently been taken over by the National Trust as a farm which has not changed in structure or farming methods over the past one hundred years or more.

All regards, Barry Evans

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