Category: Watkins
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A birthday memorial
I’ve been aiming to get some material together to post here early each week, a chance to write something a bit more rounded than a family tree data record or the abbreviated voluntary sector news I produce. Today is 1st February, the 81st anniversary of Mum’s birth and the first one since she died. So I can hardly do better than include a little from her ‘Recollections and reflections’, written a few years ago. I was born somewhere in the district of Neath Abbey near the » »
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Taking the tree further in Brecon and Norwich
This was going to be a very short item about discovering, or re-discovering, useful sources of family history data. But today I took a look at two such, which threw up some immediately relevant material and highlighted an issue on Welsh records. Welsh wills and Welsh names Firstly, I try to adopt the practice of reading just about every scrap in the ‘Who Do You think You Are’ magazine, even if it doesn’t look relevant or promising at the outset. There are often helpful tips and » »
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Looking ahead to look behind
To follow up the traditional year-end top moments, the traditional look forward for 2011. Some of the possibilities: A visit to the Tonypandy area, and Trealaw cemetery in particular (the list of tree members buried there just keeps expanding), really ought to be on the to do list. Scanning to digital form old family photos. For this, it would be great if the Flip-Pal portable scanner got released in the UK soon, preferably not at straight dollar to pound pricing – see this ‘not-a-review’ post. » »
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Watkins and Griffiths
Welsh lines
Welsh lines No doubting the Welshness of Watkins. Our line comes from Brecknock, aka Breconshire, Talgarth area. [toc] Levy senior The 1841 census has the ‘original’ Levy Watkins (born about 1838) at Cuminbach, Llandefalley South. See Mid Wales page. Levy married Phoebe Griffiths in Merthyr Tydfil 13th June 1859 and lived in that town until at least 1875, working as a coal miner. (See Merthyr, more than a temporary abode). By 1881 the family had reached Tonypandy. Levy died 1912 in the Rhondda. Phoebe » »