Penmynydd

[teulucooke]

Can anyone help with house names please? I've traced my great great grandmother(Mary Jones) to Penmynydd and found 2 possibe matches on the 1841 census. On pages 2 and 3 there are several houses under a name that looks like Orwel or Orsedd. I can't make out the handwriting and would like to know the name of the houses. Could these be the Almshouses? It seems an odd name (should be Elusendai) but I can't think of anywhere else with so many houses together. Also, there seems to be several families living there and I understand that the purpose of the Almshouses was to provide homes for single men.

[Maggsie]

Hi,
Can you send the link please
Maggsie

[teulucooke]

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/8979/WRYHO107_1363_1365-0037/12958286?backurl=http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/88684979/person/48584411859/facts/citation/1000205965851/edit/record

[suzard]

If you look at page one the details of the enumerator's walk are given
Parish of Penmynydd -it seems  Orsedd is a place in that parish -not a house name -1841 census seldom gives House names (or numbers) unless it is name of a PH , school etc
I have found mention of a family who came from Penmynydd and Yr Orsedd and states "now Rhos Cefn Hir"

Suz

[Maggsie]

Hi, Thanks for the link.
What I think is..........
Like where I live there are several terraced houses and each group has a name such as.....
Grosvenor View  this has 5 houses.
Abbey View has 3 houses.
Newtown has 20 plus houses.
Where you see Do for ditto it's another house.
They built an area where I live in the 1960's
Hollyfield   there are 30 bunglaows, BUT, 6 are Hollyfield, Pant Lane and the rest are built in a crescent at the back of the first 6.
I went to look for a house in Baggott Street in Dublin some years ago, that is the same, built in blocks, as you walk up to St Stephens Green, the numbers are backwards and forwards.
I am always helping delivery vans as there are 135 dwellings that don't have numbers only names.
So that what it is and also the name looks like Anwell.
Maggsie

[sarah]

Hello teulucooke

You have had some wonderful help from the members, I am sure they would love to know if they have helped answer your question.

Sarah

[teulucooke]

Thank you for your suggestions. There appears to have been some boundary changes and I am concentrating my research on a house named "Orsedd" in Penmynydd.

[suzard]

Are you certain Orsedd is a house? See reply#3
Suz

[teulucooke]

Yes, I have seen the house and the name is Orsedd.