Druid Village

[cwm]

My g.g. grandfather, John Thomas and his wife Elizabeth + 2 children were living in Druid Village, Melindwr,Aberystwyth, in the 1871 census, and remaining there . Has anybody got any info' on Druid Village please?Or where I can get some ? Many thanks,Cwm.

[D ap D]

Druid Village is/was part of the Melindwr township in the parish of Llanbadarn fawr.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CGN/LlanbadarnFawr/Melindwr.html

LLANBADARN-VAWR (LLAN-BADARN-VAWR) a parish comprising the sea-port, borough, and market and post town of Aberystwith, from which the church is one mile distant, to the south-east, and the hamlets of Broncastellan and Clarach, in the upper division, and those of Cwrnrheidol, Elerch, Isâ yn Dre', Uchâ yn Dre', Isâ yn Vainor, Uchâ yn Vainor, Melindwr, Parcel-Canol and Trêvirig in the lower division of the hundred of GENEU'R GLYN; and the hamlets of Llanbadarn Isâ yn y Croythen and Llanbadarn Uchâ yn y Croythen, each of all these hamlets maintaining its own poor, in the upper division of the hundred of ILAR county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES; and containing 9824 inhabitants......"
[From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CGN/LlanbadarnFawr/index.html

[cwm]

Thanks  D ap D, I'll read up on it. Diolch unwaith eto,Cwm.

[Welshy1961]

Hello there everyone, hope all is well and your behaving yorselves hehehe..........Firstly im kinda lost here as many probably are also, sooooooooooo im just gonna plod along  and see how it goes.............recently been checking out my family history, found alot of good info but some leads me up the garden path with nobody at home , shame lol . ive found that alot of my family were born and bred in the aberystwyth area, with my great grandfather being a baptist minister  at Melindwr, his name is Thomas Richards born in 1896 lived at Druids Village as did many of the family. his father was also Thomas Richards , his wife being Margaret he worked as a leadminer, well thats as far as it goes, apart from my great grandfather Thomas, his  daughter thats my auntie has asked me to look and find out as much info as i can so here i am lol .... i apologise for my slowness of type & spelling but i was diagnosed with Parkinsons Disease at the age of 32 i am now 53 so its well and truly got me, but im still here alive n kicking *winks*  rite ill stop waffling on and leave in peace, hope to hear from you real soon, please take care n be very safe
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[dawnsh]

Hi Welshy

Another welcome to Rootschat 

I realise you're new here but if you make duplicate posts, please tell us otherwise you'll have people running around and duplicating efforts.

Your other topic is here

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=697642.msg5409136#msg5409136

Dawn

[sarah]

Hi Welshy,

I am very sorry but we have not been able to contact cwm, sadly his emails are no longer working

Regards

Sarah

[Welshy1961]

Hi again,
            okie dokie sarah and dawn thanks anyways, worth a try, sorry about my duplication of my postings , just thought maybe it would get double the air time so to speak, not knowing if the people on rootschat check the old posting as well as the new..............guess it was having a Blonde moment huh girls lolol, anyways thanks for your time, will chat again i hope xxx
                                                        Welshy1961 aka Hugh

[sarah]

Hi Hugh,

Most replies find the rootschat posters most of the time, those that don't bounce back to me to hopefully fix the problem, if I can't I let the person know

Regards

Sarah