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Breconshire / Re: david price/williams llywel blaenycwm halfway
« on: Friday 22 December 23 21:38 GMT (UK) »
If I could add a little local information here, having lived in Llywel for some years, and thus I know the places mentioned in your posts.
The parish of Llywel consists of the hamlets of Llywel & Halfway and the village of Trecastle plus of course the many farms in the area. One of the interesting things is that there are only three or four surnames as all the original families are interrelated in some way. Having so few surnames resulted in people being known by their farm or house names rather than their surnames - and this was still the case when I lived there in the 1990s. We lived at Bear House so my husband was known as Mike the Bear. A friend whose house was next to the public loos was known as Cerys Toilet Cottage. And one chap was called Dai Bungalow because he had nothing upstairs....
I did start writing a history of the house we lived in which was built, it is thought, in the 1500s. I'll check through my notes & let you know if I find any mention of the people you're researching.
Kind regards
GS
The parish of Llywel consists of the hamlets of Llywel & Halfway and the village of Trecastle plus of course the many farms in the area. One of the interesting things is that there are only three or four surnames as all the original families are interrelated in some way. Having so few surnames resulted in people being known by their farm or house names rather than their surnames - and this was still the case when I lived there in the 1990s. We lived at Bear House so my husband was known as Mike the Bear. A friend whose house was next to the public loos was known as Cerys Toilet Cottage. And one chap was called Dai Bungalow because he had nothing upstairs....
I did start writing a history of the house we lived in which was built, it is thought, in the 1500s. I'll check through my notes & let you know if I find any mention of the people you're researching.
Kind regards
GS