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What is this place name do you think?
« on: Friday 04 August 17 15:10 BST (UK) »
Just out of curiosity.  What do all of you think the name is here?

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Re: What is this place name do you think?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 04 August 17 15:18 BST (UK) »
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"The wise man knows how little he knows, the foolish man does not". My Grandfather & Father.

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Re: What is this place name do you think?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 04 August 17 15:19 BST (UK) »
The Montgomeryshire name I'm looking for of course.

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Re: What is this place name do you think?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 04 August 17 15:26 BST (UK) »

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"The wise man knows how little he knows, the foolish man does not". My Grandfather & Father.

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Re: What is this place name do you think?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 04 August 17 15:32 BST (UK) »
Looks like Llangad---

but Genuki doesn't show any similar possibilities to explore.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MGY/indexpars#L
 
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: What is this place name do you think?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 04 August 17 15:35 BST (UK) »
From two different censuses.

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Re: What is this place name do you think?
« Reply #6 on: Friday 04 August 17 15:38 BST (UK) »


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"The wise man knows how little he knows, the foolish man does not". My Grandfather & Father.

"You can’t give kindness away.  It keeps coming back". Mark Twain (?).

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Re: What is this place name do you think?
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Re: What is this place name do you think?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 04 August 17 16:45 BST (UK) »
What about these two villages in Montgomryshire:-

Llangdenny and Langovan/Llangoven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Villages_in_Monmouthshire
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke