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From: "Jeff Coleman" <>
Subject: Re: [GLA] A Swansea ancestor who was involved in the1838/1840statistical survey
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:58:27 +0100
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Members of Swansea branch of Glamorgan Family History Society have been
working on transcribing the two statistical surveys done under the auspices
of the Royal Institution of South Wales, as Swansea Museum was then known.
The second survey, with religious affiliation and place of origin, is
interesting as it complements the 1841 census, though sadly there is very
little address information - pages and pages with the same general district
name for example.
It was in the early 1840s, I seem to recall, that one of the luminaries of
the RISW hit on the novel idea of having street names painted on slate and
fixed to the walls of houses at street corners, and another novel idea of
having numbers painted onto the doors of houses.

I will pass your query on and you may get a specific reply in due course to
your query.

I have read somewhere about Hugh Mahony and his career with the RISW, but
can't immediately place the source.

I assume that you have looked at the 'Cambrian Index'
www.swansea.gov.uk/cambrian

Not a lot of MAHONY entries, but a search on MAHONEY would merit a title
'all human life is there'.

Is this one your man ?
BUILDINGS, RESIDENTIAL, URBAN HOUSING 17 May 1878 FOR SALE: 8 TO 12 BURNHAM
STREET,WALTER'S ROAD,ON INSTRUCTIONS FROM HUGH MAHONEY WHO IS GOING TO
AUSTRALIA. P4

This is probably Burman Street.

Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lancaster-Boon" <>
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Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:40 PM
Subject: [GLA] A Swansea ancestor who was involved in the
1838/1840statistical survey


> Hello
>
> An ancestor of mine named Hugh Mahony was an Irish resident of Swansea,
> and
> has been written about a few times over the years because he lived in the
> basement of what is now the Swansea Museum.
>
> While he lived there he apparently helped compile a statistical survey for
> what was to become the Royal Institution of South Wales. I have read that
> next to his own name he has given an interesting placename from Ireland.
>
> The survey involved seems to still exist but as a person not residing in
> Britain I have no idea how to access it or whether it has been indexed and
> so on. I believe it is this one:-
>
> http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=20295
>
> http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?coll_id=11869&inst_id
> =34&term=swansea%20statistical%20survey
>
> I would be very interested in ideas about how to find out more about what
> is
> says concerning the family living in the cellar. What's more based on
> witnesses at baptisms and remarks from historians concerning Hugh Mahony,
> he
> seems to have had a relative named James living nearby somewhere.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best Regards
> Andrew Lancaster
>
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