Felinfoel Cottages Blaenllechau

[angel58]

my grandfather aged about 12 years in 1880 was recorded to be living at these cottages with his parents,,,,, but so far i have been unable to find out where they were!!!!! can anyone help??

[DORAN54]

bleanllechau is in the area of ferndale in the rhondda valley so if you can get in touch with the library there maybe they could help

[angel58]

it was the first place i tried,,,,, my father was born in blaenllechau... they didnt know either!!!!!!

[DORAN54]

i wounder if there is a local historical society there that could help

[Sam Swift]

Try following the enumerator's route, Go to the first page of the schedule (if you haven't already done this) and look at a modern day  street map (such as is on google at full magnification). However, the names of some streets have changed since that census and in fact the cottages only appeared on that census along with some other cottages that also existed. There is actually now a "Middle Row" just as you turn into Princess Street (just above Albert Street). I would say that the cottages are somewhere along / off the road  between Baptist Square and Baptist Row maybe near where the Park is now. There were houses at one time opposite the first section of Princess st, shortly after the fork in the road, but I don't know what they were called.The other option is to contact Treorchy library or the Glamorgan Archives and see if they have an old OS map that covers the nearest year to the census and see if they can copy that section to send to you.

[despair]

You can see old OS maps online at www.old-maps.co.uk.Use a current search term such as -Baptist Square-choose an appropriate option from the list and when the map loads go to the historical equivalent drop-down list on the right and choose the 1877 or 1900 1:2500 option.Use the one off magnifier of Windows zoom to enhance.Felinfoel Cottages are not named,but maybe they can be identified by the number of entries bearing the name in the 1881 census vs.the rows on the map?

Regards
Roger

[Tracey Roberts]

Hi if you go on facebook there is a site on there called sunnyblaenllechau maybe someone there may be able to help.