Category: Rhondda
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Not taking a hint on Griffith Watkins
Highs and lows in a Rhondda life
Highs and lows in a Rhondda life Taken separately, none of the information in this piece is exceptionally noteworthy, but together perhaps there is enough for passing interest. This little session kicked off with one of Ancestry’s “new hints” email notifications – usually highlighting irrelevant items or ones I’d checked out a day or two before. This time, it included a 1911 Wales census hint for Griffith Watkins, a great great uncle {1}. While this did indeed prove to be a hint to ignore, it prompted » »
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Bush Houses viewpoints
Cwm Clydach Cottages in colour and b&w
Cwm Clydach Cottages in colour and b&w Cutlock & Co is extremely grateful to a new contact who has forwarded some photos of Bush Houses. One view was familiar, from the painting which appears at the bottom of Feeling Bushed and also a poor quality version received via another source, but the older black and white image was certainly from a fresh perspective. Looking down the valley towards Tonypandy, with the main part of Clydach Vale /Blaen Clydach to the left (north), St Albans church can » »
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No beating about the Bush
Dreadful conditions, strong community, in Cwm Clydach
Dreadful conditions, strong community, in Cwm Clydach The Cutlock & Co articles on Bush Houses are some of the most popular on the website. As the latest batch of old news uploaded to the Welsh Newspapers Online archive includes nine year’s worth of the Rhondda Leader from the start of the 20th century, a quick trawl seemed a good idea. Forty items came up for “bush houses”. Here are some key ones about the place {1}, which also shine a light on inhabitants’ lives. Constructed in » »
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The Cutlock review for 2013
The family history research reflected in the Cutlock & Co website may appear to have crawled along in 2013, with only 14 articles (excluding this one), but there has actually been quite a lot of activity behind the scenes. Adding in newly available records, tidying up the notes on already identified individuals, filling in small gaps, and plenty more. Subscribing to FindMyPast has given access to the British Newspaper online archives, with a few interesting results. Here are a few highlights for the Cutlock year. Smiling » »
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Notable names
Prominent family connections
Prominent family connections I think it has been said here before, but Cutlock and Co and associated family research isn’t about trying to find famous connections, and every person has their role to play. However, it is still interesting to come across individuals with a bit more prominence, if only because there is more likely to have been stuff written about them, which may just be available somewhere. A certain William Jones Pate fits the bill, and gains a mention on Cutlock and Co he wouldn’t » »
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Finding a Reason for this solicitor
Here’s an intriguing new little puzzle. Ancestry.co.uk’s hints feature, suggesting records and other trees connected with an individual in your own tree, is highly variable in its usefulness and has come up with very little for most of this year. Yesterday it threw up a couple of hints on the Welsh side – the Hughes and Rees lines, which often seem a lost cause in research with such common names. The 1922 probate calendar record for great great grandmother Mary Hughes, nee Rees, must be hers, » »