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From: barrie <>
Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] Re: Cefn Coed Cemetery Merthyr Tydfil
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:20:26 +0100
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Hello Heather,

Sorry, I misread your original mail. You said " As at Cefn Coed". Please
forgive me.

Most of my family are buried at Pant Cemetery as well. Pant will take a
fair bit of time to get on to their cemeteries database to take on their
Family History fairs.

Part of my families came from all points Dyfed ( Carmarthen, Cardigan
and Pembrokeshire) and landed up in Dowlais or Merthyr. Some also were
from Breconshire area. My only English blood is from George Evans from
Whitney Herefordshire and Elizabeth Cheese, but think she born Welsh
Newton anyway;)

I go to Merthyr town at least 3 times a week. I am doing projects for
Glamorgan FHS at the Merthyr library as well as my adopted Gwent where I
carry out work as an officer ( nobody will volunteer of course) with my
wife at Ebbw Vale Branch of Gwent FHS. I also subscribe to several other
Family History Societies. It is worth the journals alone and in the case
of Carmarthenshire of course the members CD!

all the best

Barrie Jones, Gwent

In message Heather Smith <> writes:-

>Hello Barry
>
>Thank you for your email and yes you are correct Muriel Davies and her
>colleagues are always very helpful. If anyone is following a Carmarthen
>family who went there for the work visits Merthyr Tydfil they can always go
>down stairs in the Civic Centre building and check the records for
>themselves in the big ledgers or Muriel will check on the computer for you.
>The only time that you cannot enter is when an undertaker is in the office.
>
>Copies of the ledger are also kept by the Sexton at the cemetery in his safe
>and he will not only locate the burial if you have a rough date but will
>take you to the grave. But make sure that you go on a weekday as his office
>is closed for the weekend and you will never find the grave yourself unless
>you have the number.
>
>Both my parents were born in Merthyr Tydfil in Heolgerrig and Abercanaid and
>I spent all my summer holidays there. A great number of my family are buried
>in Cefn Coed and Pant Cemetery which also comes under Muriel Davies
>jurisdiction as the Cemetery Officer for Merthyr Tydfil.
>
>Regards Heather in Yorkshire

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(comprises, Ebbw Vale, Pontypool, Chepstow, Newport, Abergavenny, Blackwood.
Of interest to anyone who has ancestral connections with the old county of
Monmouthshire.--

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