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From: barrie <>
Subject: [Cmn-L] re- Trevethin church monuments -- Capel Hanbury?
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:56:35 +0100
References: <004801c26a73$40476800$db54e10c@attbi.com>
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Hi Norma,

Capel Hanbury was his name. Go into Google search and enter Capel
Hanbury and you will come up with the following site:-

... MP b. 1744 d. 1784 - m. 1774 Jane Lewis of St. Pierre Park,
Monmouthshire.
Son of Capel Hanbury of Pont-y-Pool Park, Monmouthshire. ...

www.zipworld.com.au/~lnbdds/home/hanbury.htm - 8k - Cached - Similar
pages.

There are a host of sites there. There were Hanbury streets and Pubs in
the area as well. You will be surprised! I will not spoil your
enjoyment.

all the best

Barrie Jones,Gwent


In message Norma Leigh Rudinsky <> writes:-

>Dear Barrie,
>
>Thanks so much for your info, and also for the Gwent Family History Society
>link. I am repeatedly amazed at the quality and variety of the Wales online
>services. I wish I were closer to the events you mentioned (closer than the
>Pacific coast).
>
>Does anyone know if Capel Hanbury is a chapel or an estate/farm? We had
>someone at Capel Dewi as the name of a farm near Carmarthen, now a B&B.
>
>I haven't yet got the whole inscription, but suspect that the monuments were
>for members or offshoots of the Cheshire Leighs at High Legh and West Legh.
>We may be distantly related through a younger or illegitimate son in a
>connection about 1580 or earlier, when our LEIGHS first came to Wales. But
>we haven't been able to prove any connection yet, and in any case ours
>became pretty much Welsh-blooded by the addition of Welsh maternal genes.
>
>Again, thanks very much, and does SKS know where Capel Hanbury is? (I've
>sent for the Trevethin BTs, which start in 1691, but I'm not sure what will
>be there, and the Capel Hanbury Leighs may not have been CinW).
>
>Norma Leigh Rudinsky
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: barrie <>
>To: Norma Leigh Rudinsky <>
>Cc: <>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 1:56 AM
>Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] Trevethin church -- info needed
>
>
>> Hello Norma,
>>
>> Trevethin was the name given to the Parish at that time. It includes
>> what is now Pontypool today. Trevethin is nowadays restricted to an area
>> in Pontypool, mainly a Council Housing estate, confused.......?
>>
>> St Cadocs is the Church and yes the Leighs internal graves are shown on
>> my St Cadocs MI index as:-
>>
>> Leigh, Capel Hanbury, Int12
>> Leigh, Emma Elizabeth, Capel Hanbury, Int11
>> Leigh, Molly Ann, Int6
>>
>> The full transcriptions are available from Gwent FHS, see signature
>> below.
>>
>> Couldn't make it to Dyfed Fair on Saturday. Nichola Thomas who was
>> Blackwood's Gwent FHS told me she met Pauline and Richard there.
>>
>> Anyone who is in the Merthyr Tydfil area on Saturday and Sunday are
>> welcome to visit the Brecon Mountain Railway at Pantyscallog between 10
>> and 4pm each day. Merthyr Branch of Glamorgan FHS and our Ebbw Vale
>> Branch of Gwent FHS will be there both days. Not sure if there will be a
>> representative from Powys but I believe Merthyr Branch will be bringing
>> some products of theirs for sale.
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Barrie Jones, Gwent
>>
>>
>> In message Norma Leigh Rudinsky <> writes:-
>>
>> >Hi, all,
>> >
>> >I've found Trevethin on multimap.com just a few miles northwest of
>Pontypool,
>> >but I'm not sure whether it is in Carmarthenshire or Glamorgan, so I'll
>copy
>> >this message to both lists. I'm hoping to find SKS who lives near the
>church and
>> >could look inside and give more info about the following.
>> >
>> >My great-uncle William David Leigh travelled in the area in 1890 and
>wrote in
>> >his journal that they walked to Trevethin Church, which has "a very large
>> >Cemetry where there are a great many dead buried. We were invited to see
>Squire
>> >Leigh's Vaults where he is buried inside the Church. The floor being
>covered
>> >with Tombstones."
>> >
>> >He gave no dates etc for "Squire Leigh" and nothing on whether he
>believed
>> >himself related. Our people were much less grand than squires and
>"Leigh" is a
>> >common name, but still I'd like to check it out. I haven't found the
>name
>> >Trevethin on any of the online resources I've looked at. Hopefully
>something is
>> >available?
>> >
>> >TIA for anything.
>> >
>> >Norma Leigh Rudinsky
>> >
>> >______________________________
>>
>> -Visit Gwent FHS at :- http://www.gwentfhs.info/
>> (comprises, Ebbw Vale, Pontypool, Chepstow, Newport, Abergavenny,
>Blackwood.
>> Of interest to anyone who has ancestral connections with the old county of
>> Monmouthshire.--
>>
>> Visit Blaenavon Ironworks website:- www.blaenavontic.com
>>
>
>______________________________

-Visit Gwent FHS at :- http://www.gwentfhs.info/
(comprises, Ebbw Vale, Pontypool, Chepstow, Newport, Abergavenny, Blackwood.
Of interest to anyone who has ancestral connections with the old county of
Monmouthshire.--

Visit Blaenavon Ironworks website:- www.blaenavontic.com

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