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Hi,
   Thank you for the update. I'm sorry I have not been back in touch re Elizabeth Powell, but I have not had a chance to look into it at all. However, you appear to have done very well yourself. I have a very busy few days ahead yet & no time to get my head around your finds at the minute, but will hopefully look at it in the next few weeks & will certainly get back to you before I visit the archives next - hopefully within the next month - fingers crossed.

Hi,
   I'm not sure how much this will help as it is all 'later' information, but I visited the record office in Llandrindod Wells to help out a friend & I thought I would do a quick search for some Pughs. Unfortunately, the records there only go back to 1813 & I only got to look at the burials.
Evan Pugh bd 24 Jly 1819 aged 76 of Llanfihangel Village
David Pugh bd 17 Jan 1826 aged 33 of Village
Thomas Pugh bd 10 Feb 1853 aged 67 of Village
Margaret Pugh bd 25 Dec 1871 aged 80 of Upper Talern? Llanfihangel Nant Bran.
Henry Rees Pugh 10 JLy 1919 Pentwyn Cottage
 
A feeble effort I know, but a start! Let me know if you would like me to check the birth & marriage records next time I go - it might not be in the very near future. If you do come to Wales, the National Library probably has the earlier registers.

Thanks both, looks like I'll be unlucky with that, but if you are willing taidgazacaz, I would love you to check just in case. William Price is buried in Lower Chapel & gave a birth of 1862 Crickadarn in 1901 census & 1852 Gwenddwr in 1891. I cannot find him in 1881 & have no access to earlier census. I would like to track him down to find his parentage, but without a more accurate birth year, ordering birth certificates could prove very expensive with such a common name. 
    If the informant says he is 82, that would make him born 1861ish & I'm inclined to think that is accurate as surely that would be a good age for a farmer?!
    Many thanks for your time.

William Price bn 1862 Crickadarn (1901census) md Jane bn 1854 Llandefalle. They had children Mary A bn 1876 Merthyr Cynog, William Richard bn 1886 Garthbrengy, Griselda A 1887 & Thomas Rees 1889.

William senior was born 1852 Gwenddwr according to the 1891 census, but his memorial inscription says 1861 - 1943, so assume the 1901 census is more accurate.

With the age gap beteen Mary A & Wm Richard, there is a possibility of a 2nd marriage & there is a Wm Price in Crickadarn in 1881 with a wife Ellen & daughter Mary A, but the ages are a little too far out for my liking.

Does anyone have access to the earlier census 1841 - 1871 to find Wm, although I suppose the detail is too vague, or does anyone have info on this family. I have been asked for help by a friend who is stuck with this, but I'm not having much luck from my armchair!!
 

Thanks Spidermonkey, that is all brilliant information. My slight concern is that if this book was published in 1889, is this Fred Charles too young to be the author of the book? I have had a similar mix up before when an apparent Harry Allsop md & had children only to find out a year down the line that there was a second Harry hiding from that particular census. Would be good too find a connection or census entry with 'author' attached.