help - mixed up with place names.

[Ann W]

Thanks guys,

 have today off so i will try and keep warm and get some research done,

will be another bitter day with lots of roads closed because of snow.   ( Just hope the power says on, cant research without  it, infact , can cope without my computer)

thanks again, you guys are great.

Best wishes
Ann

Oh it doesnt snow in Rotorua, but we have had it on the hills around us... and yesterday the rain looked like snow

[Ann W]

Thank you Arranroots.

Really really great web sites...

i have a real interest in surnames and how they came about.. seems everyone  researching in Wales will have a JONES in their family then....

You would laugh at me practicing to say the place names , but i got the hang off it in the end, and have a better understanding of the language..

So thank you..

Best wishes
Ann

[Ann W]

Hi there,, still looking and looking but i can find the town/city /place "Trevor".

thanks
ann

[Ann W]

http://home.clara.net/wfha/wales/sounds/

found this site, you click on the place names and it pronounces it for you, really great... but i didnt pronounce it like they did..

[Mair]

Hi Ann

Let's go mapping!

 For Trefor - you say "Trevor" but as there is no "V" the single "f" is pronounced as a"v" - oh it get's better    But we can leave the pronunciation for a later date.  We let you find the flippin' place first eh!

Right here we go:-
 "www.multimap.com" go to Great Britain and NI in the drop down menu and in the "place name" bit type in "Trefor" with the "F"! Two places in the great map of things will come up.  Hit No. 2 - this is the place "Trefor" I think you are seeking on the north coast of what is just on the Lleyn Peninsula!

Now you have found the north coast of Wales you can go north east for Llandudno, Conwy, Penmaenmawr etc etc!

J

[Ann W]

Thank you Jude..

Slowly getting the hang of this wales.. the more i am researching it the easier the names are looking,, before they just all looked the same.  but i can see some difference in them now... 

Really enjoying wales..

shame its such a long way away...  dont like flying or airports...

thanks again

best wishes
ann

[Keith]

Ann,

Llanaelhaiarn the parish has two villages, Llanaelhaiarn itself, and Trevor (Trefor), which are situated only about a mile apart. At one time Trefor was part of Llanaelhaiarn village, and only became known as Trefor in (I think) the early part of the 20th. Century.

Penmaenmawr, as has already been mentioned, is on the coast not far from Conwy and Llandudno.

The connection between Trefor and Penmaenmawr is that they both have a granite quarry. A large number of quarrymen migrated into North Wales from the 1860's onwards when the Mountsorrel Granite Co. of Leicestershire took over the Trefor Quarry. I'm not certain if there was a connection with the Penmaenmawr Quarry, but I would imagine that the men would have been willing to move between quarries in search of work.

Regards,

Keith.

[Ann W]

hi Keith.

Thanks for the info, that does help.... i suppose its hard for someone coming from there to understand how differcult the names are to someone on the other side of the world.  but now i have learnt alot,

 had a lot of fun on one web site trying to learn to pronounce the names. it was very funny, glad no one could here me.

So thanks again, and thanks to everyone helping  me with this one...

best wishes
Ann

One day i will visit wales,  its not true that it rains all the time there is it? lol