1 Cwar Treboeth Llangyfelach

[NIKKI1971]

Has anyone got any information as to where 1 Cwar Treboeth Llangyfelach is, also does it still exist. My Great Grandmother lived there, she was born in1870, her name was Elizabeth Ann Hughes she married Henry Jones in 1892. They had 5 children, one of them was my Grandmother Hannah Georgina born 1897, she married in 1926 and was living at the address then.

[bevbee]

It doesn't seem to exist now - it's certainly not on the A-Z.

However, Cwar means quarry and there is a Quarry Road and a New Quarry Road, both in Treboeth.

Do you know what the roads near it were called?

Bev.

[NIKKI1971]

Hi thanks for replying
No i dont have any other names apart from Cwar Treboeth

Thanks anyway

Nikki

[bernard_lewis]

I think the present day names are Quarr and New Quarr. Don't know where the 'y' went...

Bernard

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[bevbee]

Oh, dear Bernard, my A-Z must be older than I thought! 

[robertsp]

My father's family (Surname: Evans) lived at "the Cwar" in the late 1800s (present in 1871 and 1881 censuses), but at number 65 The Cwar.  The 1881 census translates the address as "The Quarry", whereas 1871 has it in the Welsh form. The family always called it "the Cwar". I'll ask my father where he thinks it was in Treboeth.

FWIW, the 1881 reference is RG11/5352/91/12 (your relatives will be on an earlier page)
The 1871 reference is RG10/5445/75/23.

[robertsp]

Google maps reference for Quarry Road and New Quarry Road: http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=51.6508,-3.945481&spn=0.002094,0.005021&t=h&z=18&om=1

[MDW]

There was a quarry at the end of the lane (and acroos a field)where my family, Jones/Beor lived, on what is now Cwmgelli Rd. The quarry was filled in in the 1970s and the whole area built over. I would think The Cwar is  most definitely now Quarry Rd. and would have lead up to the old working quarry. Just to confuse matters, there is also a New Quarr Rd. off this road. Good hunting, Mel.