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From: "Carolyn J Haines" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] Cwmnantddu in Pontnewynydd near Trevethin
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:50:33 -0500
References: <200802080034.m180XRYk026802@mail.rootsweb.com><005b01c86a3b$d1bb0ad0$9865fea9@RETIRING>
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Thank you Jeff for your clarification. I am looking forward to visiting the
area.

> 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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Carolyn Haines
Holt, Michigan USA


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