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From: "Gareth" <W/>
Subject: Fw: [DYFED] EVANS, Thomas and JONES, Jemima
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:43:06 -0000


From: Mary Jane Stephenson <>
To: Gareth <W/>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 6:34 AM
Subject: Re: [DYFED] EVANS, Thomas and JONES, Jemima


> As a resident of the present parish of Cenarth may I endorse what
Gareth
> has said about it. The modern parish of Cenarth is in
Carmarthenshire
> and is bounded on the north by the river Teifi so that the actual
> present village of Cenarth is split between Carmarthenshire on the
south
> side of the river and Ceredigion (old Cardiganshire) on the north
side.
> The present southern and western boundary is the river Cych which
> divides Pembrokeshire from Carmarthenshire. Danyrhelyg (where I
live),
> Gelligatti and part of the Capel Iwan road and Penrherber form the
> eastern boundary but the town of Newcastle Emlyn is another parish
in
> its own right.
> However prior to the 1840s the old parish, spelt Kenarth, included
the
> town of Newcastle Emlyn which had an old daughter chapel which was
on
> the site of the present Catholic church, near the castle. The
present
> Cenarth parish is therefore much reduced in both size and
population. I
> know the location of most of the present houses and farms are in
the
> modern parish of Cenarth, having canvassed many of them for
elections
> and gone to all of them delivering Yellow Pages! We are an
> often-forgotten, but beautiful corner of Carmarthenshire.
> Prior to Sir John Morris Jones laying down rules for modernising and
> regularising Welsh spelling and orthography in the 1890s with his
book
> "Welsh Orthography",the letter 'K' often appears in official records
and
> on documents as in Kenarth, Kilrhedyn etc, where modern usage uses
> 'C'.There were other changes such as in Gorphenaf (July) on MIs
where we
> now write Gorffennaf.
> Therefore anyone mentioned in the 19th century census records as
born in
> Kenarth could actually have been born in the town of Newcastle
Emlyn,
> quite a large, thriving market town, or in the village of Cenarth,
or in
> one of the many surrounding small settlements or isolated farms.
> Hope that this is of some help.
> Mary Jane
>

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