Llanfihangel Nant Bran Breconshire: Jones family Vottywen

[adriennelawrence]

Can anyone who knows Llanfihangel Nant Bran help.
I am researching Jones family who lived at Vottywen, Llanfihangel Nant Bran from 1870 onwards (10 acres according to census). Does anyone know if it still exists, perhaps not as a farm but a house in or near the village. Vottywen features hugely in stories of the family told by my mother in law.
Rees Jones when he married moved to Soar village, I am having trouble establishing where this was, it is not showing on any maps and 'googling' reveals nothing.
Rees was 1 of 10 children born to John and Margaret Jones who farmed Rullan, Rhuland Llanfihangel Nant Bran; on census returns spelled Rhyllan and Rhiwlan Were they moving about different farms in the village or could these be variant spellings for the same farm. Do they/it still exist.
 
Many thanks Adrienne in Surrey

[despair]

There is a Ffottywen at postcode LD3 9ND-Pontfaen near Llanfihangel Nant Bran.

Regards
Roger

[despair]

The other property looks to be Rhulan currently,at postcode LD3 9NB

Regards
Roger

[Greensleeves]

I think all those different spellings refer to the same farm,Adrienne - the trouble with a lot of Welsh censuses is that the enumerators were English and were not terribly good at the spelling of Welsh place-names or people's names, come to that.

Regards
GS

[adriennelawrence]

Hi Roger
Many thanks for confirming Ffottywen and Rhulan are still there in Llanfihangel.
Adrienne

[adriennelawrence]

Hi GS
Many thanks for replying and for the suggestion that they are variant spellings of the same place, it helps put the same family on a farm for 3 generations.
Adrienne

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Soar seems to be somewhere on the River Bran downstream of Llanfihangel Nant Bran, before it joins the Usk in Aberbran, from what I pick up on google

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Have now found my Brecon Beacons map - Soar is marked, a couple of kilometres NW of Aberbran, on the river and the road to Llanfihangel Nant Bran. It looks like there's little more than a chapel, phonebox and a few houses. Think the postcodes is around LD3 9LT

[adriennelawrence]

Hi Mabel

Many thanks for finding Soar village; my AA road atlas was just not detailed enough.
Interesting you say it has a chapel, I can find some of the baptisms, marriages and burials for my Jones family on www.findmypast and then they disappear, possibly into this local chapel deserting St. Michaels in Llanfihangel Nant Bran.

Thank you Adrienne