Category: Mid Wales
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The Welsh experience of WW1 to be digitised
Sourced from Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum: A project led by the National Library of Wales has received funds to digitise primary sources relating to World War One. The project will make available a unique collection revealing the hidden history of World War One as it affected all aspects of Welsh life, language and culture,…
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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…
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Mid Wales and Marches
The Watkins side of the family appears to originate from near Talgarth/Brecon, with Levi Watkins senior being born there 1838. Likely 1841 census entry (spelt Leavy) at Cominbach, Llandefalle (written as parish of Llandefalley South), in Breconshire. Remarkably near the base of my good friends at Bicycle Beano! The photo below (was the banner photo…