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From: "Jill Muir" <>
Subject: RE: [GLA] Destruction of Graig Chapel Burial Ground, Abercanaid
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:12:24 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20060314090245.235021C00082@mwinf3011.me.freeserve.com>


Hello David,
Welcome back to the fold. It is nice to see you here again. So now you are
in Cardiff, how lucky and charmed you are! I would love to be in your shoes.
<grin>

Sorry David, I think you may well have 'read' somewhere in literature that
the Merthyr Council is interested in areas of historic interest. I don't
think so. If so,it is a bit late as they seem to have pulled down anything
that could be classed as of historic interest.- the Rhondda is the same -

Some time in the future, people will be as horrified as you at the
destruction caused to official vandals. See my website:
http://www.gravematters.org.uk

Best wishes,
Jill
http://www.gravematters.org.uk/
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~glamorgan/



-----Original Message-----
From: David Pike [mailto:]
Sent: 14 March 2006 09:03
To:
Subject: [GLA] Destruction of Graig Chapel Burial Ground, Abercanaid

Dear Glamlist

About four years ago on a visit to Glamorgan from East Anglia where I was
living at the time, with the help of members of this list, I discovered the
headstone marking the grave of my gg grandmother Sarah LLEWELYN of Foundry
Place, Troedyrhiw (d. 1880) in the burial ground of Graig Chapel (the chapel
itself having been long since demolished after it suffered serious damage as
a result of subsidence). The headstones for several other relatives were
also there.

Having moved to live in Cardiff recently I took the opportunity yesterday to
revisit and photograph my ancestor's grave. Imagine my horror when I
discovered that every headstone in the burial ground had been flattened and
most of them removed. Some were still lying face down, one with a saw cut
partially through it. There does not seem to have been any attempt to rescue
the headstones or move them elsewhere. I was deeply shocked, and the more so
on reflection as this has happened in what is recognized by Merthyr Council
as an area of historic interest.

Does anyone know why and how this has happened? Was any attempt made to
record the MI's before this destruction took place?

David Pike
Cardiff



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