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From: Dick Jones <>
Subject: Re: Surnames PEAVEY and HOLLAND
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:08:29 +0000


>Hi All!
>I was wondering if either of these surnames are familiar in Wales.
>Family tradition has it that they were coalminers in Wales before
>emigrating to America.
>Regards, David

Hi David

PEAVEY and HOLLAND are most definitely NOT Welsh surnames.

Fig 19-7 in the book 'Welsh Family History' - a guide to research (Ed. John
Rowlands) shows that before 1881 a considerable amount of migration
occurred to the South Wales coalfields from Somerset, especially from
around Somerton, Wedmore, Radstock and also from the east Exmoor villages
of Cutcombe, Luxborough and Brompton Regis.

Best regards
Dick Jones
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. U.K.

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