my family descended from the Oriels of Caldey Island
Rose Ellen Oriel born 13 Apr 1866 dau of David & Martha Oriel Farm Baliff of Caldey, Rose was named after the late wife of either the Hawkesley or Kynaston family owners of Caldey (I can’t quite remember which, but can soon look it up if required)
Rose mrd Charlie Victor Burn a sailor from Devon and lived at 3 St John’s Hill Tenby.
Rose was one of the many Oriel’s baptised established church and later converted to Baptist at Deer Park Tenby.
Sister to David Oriel (Farm Baliff) was Jane Oriel mrd George Sinnett asuccssfull Coal Merhcant of Tenby and resided at Worcester House Tenby now a hotel on the Esplande, I have an advert for the house. Their son George tried to get out of service during W.W.1 by saying his job as a jockey was far to important to the local landed gentry, he was told all nags where to far gone to race, so get in the Navy ~ he did.
Visit Caldey and the detached house behind the P.O. is the Farm Baliff’s house resided in by David & Martha. Their fathers (Benjamin's) cottage is now under the Carbunckle (Abbey), but thankfully I have a picture before of the village before the Carbunckle started to appear in with the laying on of the bell in 1906.
I have an original letter by a lodger of David & Martha which describes how they lived on the island and how they crossed to chapel.
David retired to Saundersfoot and built 2 houses sometimes called Rosemont and sometimes called Montrose, they still exist and where in the family until the death of Linda in the ‘80’s or 90’s
I have photo’s of all places mentioned and in most cases the people and records.
David’s father Benjamin had moved to Caldey in 1837 from Garnass and eventually worked for his son the farm baliff.
As you can imagine based on the ’83 tree and the above I can waffle on for hours and hours from the death of Elizabeth Oriel wife of Wm Oriell in 1593 H’west to the 2000’s from Pembroke to Glamorgan to Gloucestershire, home counties, Bristol, Canada, and the USA.
I even now partake of a dram or two on the site of George Oriel’s old pub the Green Mead in Main St Pembroke, now the Power Station Club, mind it does not have a duck pond outside it like it did in George’s day. Perhaps I can be considered a descendent of one of George’s “Green Mead Boys” (See Pembroke People by Richard Rose).
Rgds
Orielbenfro
ORIEL a welsh window on a surname