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From: "Brian Harvey" <>
Subject: Re: [POWYS] Volunteers Yard
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:31:47 -0000
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Hi Viv,
I have "Llanidloes Town and Parish" by Ronald Morris and seeing the
correspondence from Eric and you I was prompted to look through it again.
This book and a Pictorial Survey of Old Llanidloes also by Ronald are great
favourites of mine. There is a photograph of Great Oak Street (Hoel y
Dderwen Fawr) - pre 1869. On the right it shows a block which now includes
the Great Oak Cafe. Ronald then says that next down from the passage
leading to the rear, can be seen the sign of the Volunteers Arms.
Ronald told me that he knew my mother and her family well from the time they
lived in Llangurig and he has been very helpful with my research. He has an
amazing knowledge of the geography and history of the Llanidloes/Llangurig
area and the people past and present who lived there.
Except for one of my lines all my ancestors were born in Powys and worked on
the land, the exception was a family of lead mine workers just over the
border in Cwmystwyth. I have found that those who were farmers and
agricultural workers had changed addresses by the time of the next census.
They all moved regularly and to me the interesting thing is that it mostly
seemed to be north through the County of Radnorshire and up into
Montgomeryshire. They all appear to have ended up living in the area of
Llangurig/Llanidloes/Llandinam but never going any further north. I expect
the climate and farming conditions were much milder than the harsher yet
more spectacular Radnorshire. .
I have been researching Llangurig like you and when I found someone was
missing from the census for Llangurig they turned up just over the border in
the neighbouring Parish of Cwmdeuddwr, Radnorshire. Llangurig Parish also
meets Llandinam south of Llanidloes and covers a much bigger area than I
expected as I only thought of it as the village itself.
I quite agree with you about family research and finding out about the way
our ancestors lived and how they met their partners. In my case it was
mostly because they lived or worked on neighbouring farms. I have ancestors
from four different lines living in Nantmel, Radnorshire at the same time,
two of my fathers and two of my mothers. There is no doubt that they would
have know each other yet it was well over a hundred and fifty years later
that the families were united when my mother met my father and married. Her
family was living in Cwmbelan just outside Llanidloes and my father's in
Glanynant also just outside the town, not many miles apart but one north of
the River Severn and the other south. It was only when they both worked in
the town that they finally met.
Regards,
Margaret Harvey


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From: "vivian edwards" <>
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Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 10:01 AM
Subject: [POWYS] Volunteers Yard


> Hi Eric thank you for your information about Volunteers yard, I know
Roland Morris he have been very helpful to me in the past, I have had a lot
of information from him about my family in Llanidloes and Llangurig. And I
had the pleaser of meeting him Llanidloes, is knowledge and information he
knows about the area is unbelievable, I don't think there is much he don't
know , also he is a charming and a very friendly gentleman. Next time I go
Llanidloes I will able to find where my g grandmother lived, I would like to
thank all the peopel who have help me on this matter. That what so
fascinating about tracing your family you will never no what you will turn
up about you family. There are to many question and not enough answer, I
would like to know why my g grandmother move from Brynfelin farm was it a
tied farm and she had to move from there when her husband David Edwards died
some time in the late 1860, who where her grandson parents and why where
they parents not on the 1881!
> census. This is what I love about researching my family trying to unravel
the way they lived and our they meet they wife's and husbands.
> Regards Viv
>
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