Llanbadarn fawr or vawr?

[kprobes]

ON THE ANCESTRY .COM SITE WHILE I AM LOOKING FOR AN ANCESTOR IN WALES.     THE DISTRICT COMES UP LLANBADARD FAWR AND SOMETIMES LLANBADARN VAWR.     ARE THESE THE SAME MEANING JUST SPELT WRONG ON THE CENSUS FORM.

[Jones the Search]

LLANBADARN VAWR is the correct name.
http://www.aberystwyth-online.co.uk/topographical-dictionary/llanbadarn-fawr.shtml

In Welsh the letter F is pronounced the same as V in English .
Hope this helps
                           Patricia 

[kprobes]

THANKYOU THAT'S A GREAT HELP

[Berlin-Bob]

Thanks from me, too, Patricia.

I'm not a welshman, but I used to live in Maerdy, in the Rhondda Fach valley and knew the difference between Rhondda Fach (Liitle Rhondda) and Rhondda Fawr (Large Rhondda), so I would have probably answered "Fach"

I think Fach and Fawr are the usual way of writing them these days,
I wonder when it changed ??

Bob
 

[Llwyd]

I rather think it was always F....there is no letter V in the Welsh alphabet and it was only changed from Fawr to Vawr because of the inability of the English to cope with the pronunciation and spelling.

[cardiff]

Who are yoy looking for in llanbadarn Fawr?
My family names are Probert and Evans
cheers cardiff

[kprobes]

I AM LOOKING FOR ANYONE CONNECTED TO THE WILLIAMS FAMILY.
MY GRANDFATHER WAS BORN IN LlANBADARD FAWR THOMAS RICHARD WILLIAMS.   HIS MOTHER WAS MARY ELIZABETH nee WILLIAMS BEFORE SHE GOT MARRIED SHE LIVED AT 1 QUEBEC COTTAGE Llanbadarn fawr.    HER  HUSBAND WAS JOHN WILLIAMS WHO IN 1905 LIVED 12 RHEIDOL PLACE, ABERYSTWYTH.
THE BROTHERS AND SISTER OF THOMAS RICHARD WERE  JOHN BRENLEYborn 1908,   ALWYN LEWIS born 1912..   ELIZABETH EILUNEDborn 1910.
THERE MUST BE SOME FAMILY STILL LIVING AROUND THIS AREA.
KERRY

[kprobes]

BY THE WAY CARDIFF, MY SURNAME IS PROBETS SOMETIMES SPELT PROBERTS.
KERRY, THIS IS MY HUSBANDS NAME.

[cardiff]

HI Funny the surname interest .. Proberts. Sorry no Williams on my side.
Sorry I am not in Aber , so cannot help you.
cheers cardiff