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From: "Jean Macrae" <>
Subject: Re: [GLA] MORFYDD
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:53:08 -0000
References: <3.0.2.32.20041115102851.00c50ea8@pop3.demon.co.uk>


Hello all

Thanks to many who replied to this question.

Regards
Jean.
GLA Co-ordinator
http://home.clara.net/tirbach/GLA.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "Anna Brueton" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [GLA] MORFYDD


> At 22:21 14/11/04 -0000, you wrote:
> has anyone else got this name in their family or knows it origins the
name
> is Moryfdd. I have just found this family member who died at 14 months
> old, I am assuming it was a male child.
>
> Jean
>
> Morfydd is a woman's name, listed in the Mabinogion, as the daughter of
> Urien Rheged - for more details see:
>
> http://www.red4.co.uk/ebooks/mabinogion/culhwck.htm
>
> The name was in use in the Middle Ages, and revived in the first half of
> the nineteenth century along with an interest in all things Arthurian and
> Celtic. There are four people of that name in the 1851 Glamorgan census.
>
> Anna
>
>
> ==== GLAMORGAN Mailing List ====
> Are others researching the same names as yourself in Glamorgan? Why not
leave your research details there too? GLAMORGAN FAMILIES site:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~alwyn/morg.htm and
> See others research details at: John Ball's Welsh Family History
http://home.clara.net/wfha/wales/index.htm
>
>


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