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Offline big g

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Welsh/English translation please
« on: Monday 20 July 09 15:18 BST (UK) »
Taken from Beddgelert St.Mary's Memorial Inscriptions the following nhas me beat;


"yn 1 fldd. oed"

I know oed is age, but what is fldd please?

Glenys
Williams - Llanllyfni Llandwrog Llanrug Bedd Austr.
Jones - Beddgelert/Nantlle
Parry - Llanllyfni
Owen s - Beddgelert
Pierce - Llanrug
Jarvis/Jervis - Llanrug
Roberts - Llanddeiniolen
Griffith  - Beddgellert/LLanrug


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Corrin - I.o.M./Bootle/K'dale/Seaforth
Stewart - Durham L'pool
Whitford -I o M L'pool
Atkinson - Bootle K'dale
Crookham - Formby Crosby L'pool

Lloyd Dickinson Burgess Threlfall Tarbuck - Lancs

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Re: Welsh/English translation please
« Reply #1 on: Monday 20 July 09 15:31 BST (UK) »
Hi Glenys

It is short for blwyddyn (year).  The beginnings of Welsh words change according to what comes before them, hence the F instead of a B!

So this child was one year old.

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Re: Welsh/English translation please
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 21 July 09 10:31 BST (UK) »
Morning Sandgrounder 1,

Thanks for that; much appreciated.

Sandgrounders come from just a few miles north of where I live!!!!!!!!


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Williams - Llanllyfni Llandwrog Llanrug Bedd Austr.
Jones - Beddgelert/Nantlle
Parry - Llanllyfni
Owen s - Beddgelert
Pierce - Llanrug
Jarvis/Jervis - Llanrug
Roberts - Llanddeiniolen
Griffith  - Beddgellert/LLanrug


"This information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk"

Corrin - I.o.M./Bootle/K'dale/Seaforth
Stewart - Durham L'pool
Whitford -I o M L'pool
Atkinson - Bootle K'dale
Crookham - Formby Crosby L'pool

Lloyd Dickinson Burgess Threlfall Tarbuck - Lancs