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Title: Burial in Neath?
Post by: bevbee on Sunday 14 September 08 10:37 BST (UK)
If someone was buried in Neath in 1812 can anyone help with ideas of where they might be buried please?

Many thanks,

B.
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: wendy47 on Sunday 14 September 08 11:30 BST (UK)
Hi

The following websites may help

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Neath/#Cemeteries - & you can access the following from here.

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waggy/villages.html 

Good luck

Wendy47
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: welshjo on Friday 03 October 08 14:40 BST (UK)
Any idea which part of Neath or the surrounding villages?
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: bevbee on Friday 03 October 08 16:29 BST (UK)
Unfortunately not. The newspaper report just says "interred at Neath" and there is no further information available about area, address or anything else.

Thanks,

B.
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: Mart56 on Friday 17 October 08 18:42 BST (UK)
What name do you have?
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: bevbee on Saturday 18 October 08 13:55 BST (UK)
Richard Morris - he was a ships carpenter and "The Cambrian" of 11/07/1812 states his burial as  "On Sunday, at Neath"


Thanks,

B.

Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: Non on Saturday 18 October 08 15:37 BST (UK)
No sign of him in Cadoxton :-[

Non
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: bevbee on Saturday 18 October 08 16:13 BST (UK)


Thanks Non, at least I'm ruling places out. It all helps!  ;D
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: Mart56 on Sunday 19 October 08 09:43 BST (UK)
Not in Llantwit or St. Thomas', Neath or St. Mary & St. Clement, Briton Ferry or on Melincourt M.Is or on Addoldy, Glynneath M.Is.  Are you sure he is dead!!!!
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: bevbee on Sunday 19 October 08 10:22 BST (UK)
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Are you sure he is dead!!!!

 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

Thanks for looking - he has to be somewhere!  ???
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: Mart56 on Sunday 19 October 08 16:11 BST (UK)
Have you looked at the original entry in the Cambrian newspaper?  It might have a bit more information than the index.
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: bevbee on Sunday 19 October 08 16:43 BST (UK)
I've got the full entry and although it goes into detail about how he died, it unfortunately  doesn't give any more info about where he was buried.  :(
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: cacasmum on Thursday 14 October 10 21:53 BST (UK)
Have you tried St Illtyds Church Neath records are held in St Thomas's Church Neath.

Good Luck.
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: welsh_angel on Saturday 12 February 11 18:18 GMT (UK)
There were a few old graveyards in the town of Neath. One being Maes yr haf. The church is still there, and if you look on Google maps, you will see it's behind Happy Homes Furniture shop., near Neath train station.  In the late 1960s or early 1970s they removed most of the graves to build a supermarket...Liptons, I think. The bones and stones were removed to the new Llantwit cemetery at this time. So, when your say your ancestor was "buried in Neath" there's a good chance it could have been in Maes yr haf.
Title: Re: Burial in Neath?
Post by: bevbee on Sunday 13 February 11 11:15 GMT (UK)
Thank you for that - I'll lock this now.

 :)