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From: "Jeff Coleman" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] Cwmnantddu in Pontnewynydd near Trevethin
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:17:30 -0000
References: <200802080034.m180XRYk026802@mail.rootsweb.com>


The parish church would have been that at Trevethin. This appears to have
been dedicated to St. Cadocus better known as St. Cadoc.

See http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MON/Trevethan/index.html

The marriage you quote clearly comes from Mike John's page on Trevethin
marriages
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monfamilies/trev-marr-k-l.htm part
of http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monfamilies/trevethinprt.htm
and not in his transcriptions for Pontnewynydd, St Luke, which appears to
have started functioning only in 1845
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monfamilies/pontnewynyddprt.htm

A Google image search on 'trevethin church' pulls up a number of pictures
including a postcard probably around 1900 to 1910.

Trevethin was a large parish whose population increased enormously with the
Industrial Revolution. Several decades later new Anglican churches were put
up, such as that at Pontnewynydd, and the parish subdivided later still.

Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolyn Haines" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 12:33 AM
Subject: [MON] Cwmnantddu in Pontnewynydd near Trevethin


> Hi, I am trying to narrow down exactly where the above town is and also
> what
> would have been the parish church in 1846. My g grandmother was born there
> and her parents were married there in 1846. After that they returned to
> Cornwall. We will be visiting the area March 7 and I would like to trip to
> see the church and Cwmnantddu. Several people have helped me so far and I
> am
> really grateful to them.
>
>
>
> Another question I have is with Mike John's transcription of Parish
> Registers. As far as I can tell there is no church listed. There are also
> many abbreviations that I do not know what they stand for and could not
> find
> definitions on the website.
>
>
>
> "21/02/1846, Richard Lawrence, FA,B, labourer, otp, William Lawrence,
> labourer, Elizabeth Tonkin, x, FA, spin, otp, Wm Tonkin, dead, Joseph
> Wayman, Thomas Griffin, B"
>
>
>
> Can someone tell me what the FA, B and otp and the B at the end stand for?
> And possibly which church they were married in?
>
>
>
> Thank you so much for any help provided.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Carolyn Haines
>
> Holt, Mi 48842

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