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Like many towns, Cardiff street names have changed over the years. Here's a list of changes showing the current name and the former name. If you have difficulty in locating an address in the census this may help.
A recent dig in York found remains of a person who had J2 L228 Y-DNA establishing that J2 was present during the Roman period in Britain.
I'm J2-L26 (J2a1) and my family seem to have been in the Shropshire/Denbighshire/Flintshire area as far as I can tell for several centuries, though there are very few (if any) Jones surnames on FTDNA with J2a1, the Montgomery surname is much more common. Probably an NPE or surname change I think.
.... I have considered there may be illegitimacy, adoption, straight up name change for unknown reasons...you name it. ... April J-W
Elizabeth Miles born 1847 died 1837 The daugher of Francis and Diana Spencer who kept an inn in Treforest
Elizabeth was a widow in 1881 census she had two young children age one year old and the other 2 months. Her husband Shadrach Miles and sadly died in at the age of 29 years They married in 1867
She run the Bridgend Inn in Ystradyfodwg then New Inn in Pontypridd and had 20 staff to help here.
She owned other hotels Bridge Hotel in Llandrindod Wells and was the largest Hotel in Wales
She also renamed the hotel the Metropole and is it still there today and a photo of her is on the walls there. Her sons William and Francis had now reached manhood and helped her with her Business
She lived in Fairfield House
Heddwch
... One of William's ancestors named relatives "Gine/Gyne" in his will of 1617.Interesting! My gt gt grandmother was Esther Jeynes / Jeans / Geens.
HI Elizabeth Miles lived in this house in 1911 ....Thank you
Kindest regards
Heddwch
My grandfather was a shoeshine boy up to 1914 at Fairfield. ... At 14 he enlisted for WW1 by altering his birth certificate and joined the army. His family contacted the owners of Fairfield and they paid for his release as he was underage. He then returned to work for them before he enlisted again later.
What a kind thing to do, so if these are your relatives then 'Thank You ' because without their kindness I wouldn't be here most probably.
... it seems very unlikely that Lady Coventry's last will could have been written as early as 1879. ...Yes, that does seem unlikely. I shall be downloading it from the GRO, once it is ready, to have a look. And her husband's.
So if the will is relevant, it must be that it refers to the descendants of David Neale, rather than DN himself.Could be.