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  • Merthyr, more than a temporary abode

    The time has come to add Merthyr Tydfil to the list of significant places in the family’s history. So far I have tended to treat it as a place that great great grandfather Levy Watkins arrived at in the 1850s, married his wife Phoebe Griffiths, worked for a while and then moved on to the Rhondda, where the Welsh side of the family developed. But the place is worth a bit more attention than that. It was, after all, the biggest town in Wales for  » »

  • Cracking a family myth

    Wales to Wilkes-Barre USA

    Wales to Wilkes-Barre USA Great excitement at Cutlock Towers. Wednesday’s visit to cousin Islwyn in Knighton didn’t just fill in missing details on already known relations but, with just the briefest further research, has now revealed where the tales of Pennsylvania connections came from. These connections had become rather mythical to me, as the idea that a part of the Watkins family was born abroad just didn’t stack up. I came back with old birth, marriage and death certificates, burial records from the 1860s to 1880s,  » »