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From: "Michael McAllister" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] Aberystruth Geography 1861
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:45:14 -0000
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Hello Cecil, sorry I can't help with your query, but, did you happen to
notice any COLEMANs along your trip through ED13?
Would love to find my grandmother's family there around this time, maybe
even Mary Anne as a young girl.
Regards, Michael McAllister
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Subject: [MON] Aberystruth Geography 1861


>I am appealing to Listers who have knowledge of Aberystruth local
> history/geography to help identify the location of the following
> addresses:
>
> Wimberry Row (aka Whimbery)
> Shrubbery Row
> Mount Pleasant
> Hill Side
> Dab-y-Garn
> Bumble Hole
> Road Sides
> Chapel Ally (sic)
> Main Road
> - British School
> -Public House
> -Berea Independent Chapel
> -Kings Head
> -Public House Forge Hammer
> -Rising Sun Inn
>
> In the order named, these were the places covered in Enumeration District
> (ED) 13 of Aberystruth in the Wales Census of 1861. Sadly, A2A does not
> provide a written description of the territory of that ED as it is
> supposed to. I
> have had only limited success trying to find the addresses in
> streetmap.com
> and multimap.com. What I did find indicates they were in or near Blaina.
>
> It is important for me to establish where they were, because my
> GGrandparents (Mary Evans and William Townsend) were among those
> enumerated in ED 13 (the
> Bumble Hole section, RG9/3997/240/Household 50) and if it is in Blaina,
> it
> will explain an otherwise-inexplicable event in their lives, namely their
> marriage in nearby Nanty Glo the following year.
>
> Best regards,
> Cecil
>
>
>


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