Thomas Griffiths "Long Garren"

[wrjones]

A Thomas Griffiths is described as a nephew of someone I am extremely curious about in the 1851 Census for Chirk Denbighshire.He is given as born in somewhere in Herefordshire which looks something like "Long Garren" in c 1821.Could anyone with local knowledge of Herefordshire suggest in which Parish of Herefordshire he may have been born in please?

HO107/1993/791/10.

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[KGarrad]

Llangarren?

[wrjones]

Thanks,yes I have been looking at Census entries and it is a possibility.

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[KGarrad]

To (stupid!) English ears it probably sounds like Long Garren?!?!

[wrjones]

Yes it is very much a "soundex"!

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[mazi]

To (stupid!) English ears it probably sounds like Long Garren?!?!

 
while'st I totally agree with Llangarren I must point out that the census place was wales so it could have been welsh ears not getting the delightful hereford  accent
 

my apostrophe is wrong, I think, but I've tried it everywhere

mike

[wrjones]

Yes Mike,it would have been a Welsh voice informing the enumerator.

Don't worry about the writing though,we are not the Grammar Police!

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[RedMike]

Hi William

A few months ago you gave me the tour of 3 churchyards near you so if it is Llangarren and you need someone to visit the churchyard please let me know as I can detour to there most Mondays on my journey from Hereford to Ross.

Is it Thomas Griffiths or his nephew you are curious about?
If Nephew, whats his name?

Ive got 3 descendants who were born in LLangarren 1700's-1800's, surnames are Dobbs, Goodman & Hall.

Regards

Mike

[wrjones]

Thanks Mike,as far as the Thomas Griffiths is concerned,he is listed as the nephew of my probable relative John Jones.I'd like to know what his mother's name was perhaps?

Regards
William Russell Jones.