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From: Venita Roylance <>
Subject: Re: [POWYS] re-Was your Montgommery Ashton a gypsy or traveller?
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:46:36 -0700
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There have been POTT(S) living in Kent since the early 1500s,
particularly in the parishes near Canterbury. You may wish to visit
David Pott's website at
http://members.lycos.co.uk/elmsted/index.htm
He has done extensive research on the POTT(S) family of Kent. The early
family included yoemen, etc. I don't have any knowledge of anyone going
to Wales, but it could have happened.

I, too, have that name in my ancestry. If you wish to see my line
(which connects to Dave's about five generations back) you may visit my
website at http://homepage.mac.com/venitar/home.html and click on "My
Ancestry."

Yours,

Venita

Homepage: Family History and Other Fascinations
http://homepage.mac.com/venitar/home.html

My Views of Wales
http://homepage.mac.com/venitar/Travels/Travels.html

Just Picture It - Wales (Links to other photo sites)
http://homepage.mac.com/venitar/Photolinks/photolinks.html



On Dec 28, 2004, at 11:08 AM, James Evans wrote:

> Whilst we are on the topic of the English settlement of Arwystli could
> anyone tell me whether Murray Chapman's work suggests a county of
> origin for
> the BOUND and POTT families who were yeomen in the parishes of
> Llandinam and
> Llangurig respectively? I know that the BOUNDs were present in the
> 1570s but
> I'm not sure about the POTTs although they too must have been of
> English
> origin. TIA
>
> James Phillips-Evans
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Date: 27 December 2004 15:48
> Subject: Re: [POWYS] re-Was your Montgommery Ashton a gypsy or
> traveller?
>
>
>> Hi Barrie and Listers,
>>
>> Your MGY Ashton's origins are as you say Barrie, linked to Elizabeth
>> 1st
> and
>> Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester. The same history is given in the book
> "Second
>> Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry" edited by John and Sheila
>> Rowlands of
>> Aberystwyth.
>>
>> It is partly based on the John Thornhill (Llangurig) sheep stealing
>> case in
>> the MGY Lordships Gaol Files 1540-1580 in the "MGY Collections", and
>> the
> full
>> chapter by Murray Chapman in the modern book about the English
>> settlement,
> with
>> the many English names he lists at that time in Western MGY in pages
> 191-193.
>> Those from Derbyshire were Ashton, Bamford, Hatfield, Gregory,
>> Bennett, and
>> some others.
>>
>> To my great suprise my Cleaton name was listed in 1573 at Llanidloes,
>> where
>> my father was born in 1904, and the Cleyton name at Llandinam in 1574,
> together
>> with many well known names then and now.
>>
>> With best wishes to you all for the New Year,
>>
>> Dennis Cleaton
>>
>
>

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