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From: "Julie Preston" <>
Subject: Re: New User Interests - JONES in Llanbrynnais
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 22:21:29 -0500
References: <3AA12AD1.11993E10@bangor.ac.uk>


Craig (and any other new listers),

I should've mentioned several sites that might help you learn about the
area:

Powys County Archives http://archives.powys.gov.uk/ (Check out their
Digital History Project pages)

John Ball's Welsh Family History Archive: http://home.clara.net/wfha/wales/

Powys Family History Society homepages:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/michaelmacsorley/powys1.htm

Montgomeryshire Genealogy Society:
http://home.freeuk.net/montgensoc

(Both societies also have stalls at the online GenFair site:
www.genfair.com with publications/searches/memberships available online
secure server)

GENUKI pages for Montgomeryshire (and specific parishes):
http://www.rapidagent.co.uk/genuki/MGY/

Hope this helps!

Julie Preston


----- Original Message -----
From: "C.D.Wood" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 12:33 PM
Subject: New User Interests - JONES in Llanbrynnais


>
> Hello List
>
> I have only recently discovered my connection to Montgomeryshire and am
> joining the list in the hope of both getting some advice for my
researches,
> and to learn something about the area my ancestor called home.
>
> By way of introduction, I am Craig, some from other lists might know me
as
> Craigy Babes, and I'm a university student at the University of Wales,
> Bangor, though originally from Salford, Manchester. I was introduced to
> genealogy as a means of getting to grips with methods of research for an A
> level course I was doing when I was 17, and am still at it 8 years later,
> hence the nickname "Babes"!
>
> Anyway, my Montgomeryshire connection comes through Elizabeth JONES, who
> gave her place of birth on the 1851 census as Llanbrynnais,
> Montgomeryshire. In 1851 she had settled in Hulme, Manchester, and was
> widowed. Since her elder children were both born in Llanbrynnais I am
> assuming that this was her home town, and that she was perhaps married
> there. She married Thomas JONES, a Joiner, I do not have her maiden name.
> Her children were:
>
> Mary JONES b.Llanbrynnais, Montgomeryshire in 1821/2
> John JONES b.Llanbrynnais, Montgomeryshire in 1825/6
> William JONES b.Manchester, Lancashire in 1827
> Thomas JONES b.Hulme, Lancashire in 1839/40
> and I believe Henry JONES, b.Llanbrynnais, Montgomeryshire in 1822-5.
>
> Elizabeth herself would have been born around 1800.
>
> I am interested in any connections to the family, and in any advice
anyone
> can offer about finding the parish registers for this period.
>
> Best wishes to all
> Craig
>
> Researching: In Lancashire: WOOD, JOHNSON, WHALLEY, CHEETHAM,
> SANDS, NEWTON and possibly IRELAND,
> MYLES and LANCASHIRE
> In Cheshire: HAMILTON, NORBURY, WATERS
> In Cornwall: SAMMEL/LS, BASTARD, CRAPP, ROBERTS
> In Conwy, Wales: ROBERTS, KENNEALLY
> In Ireland: LORD, BRENNAN, GUILFOYLE, COX
> In Scotland: GILLAN
>


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