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I'm keen to find Charles Reynolds too! He was my 2x gt grandfather. Was he from Balne, in Snaith parish? The 1851 & 1871 census suggests this, in conjunction with 1861 showing Snaith . He was  a grocer and draper, and can also be found in the 1834 Trade Directory (on line at Genuki) By the way, in the 1871 census he was living or staying in Newport, Shropshire, with his son in law Thomas Picken and daughter Elizabeth (my gt grandparents).

Does anyone know any more about a possible Sir Joshua Reynolds connection?
Cherry

Can anyone help me connect my 4x gt grandfather Stephen Kinsey of Llandinam to a family tree? Birthdate unknown (probably around 1750-60). He married Mary Jones in Llandinam Church in 1781. Their daughter Maria was born in 1782 and married my 3x gt grandfather Edward Owens of Abbeycwmhir in 1799. (She was baptised in Wotton-under-Edge, Glos in case this gives a clue - I have no idea why - there is no evidence that the family stayed on there, however, and Maria was certainly residing in Wales at the time of her marriage.)

I know that there were Kinsey families in Llandinam and have looked at one or two trees, but can't find a link to Stephen. I've also seen a few Stephen Kinseys too so assume it's a family name, as it's not common at the time.

I hope someone may have the answer!
Cherry

Baracws - Have you managed to link this Edward & Margaret Owen to the Edward Owen in your tree as firmly as you would like yet? It would be interesting to decipher the Owen(s) family network around the area. Perhaps we'll turn up that connection between our two families. My family were originally Owens, then most of the following generations gradually dropped it.
Good luck!
Cherry

Hi there - the Powys Records Office can be checked out at http://www.powys.gov.uk/index.php?id=647. (or just use www.powys.gov.uk and go through from there). If you click on the section 'Our Records' on the right, in the next window you'll see Parish Registers for the different counties; click on eg Radnor and a list of available registers comes up. All these registers are stored on microfilm and I found it very helpful to figure out in advance which ones I wanted to look at. You do need to book a seat in advance as the space in the research room is very limited. The staff are very helpful.

The parish registers have records going back well before 1837, some to around 1600, but the early ones can be very difficult to read on microfilm. I found most of the late 18th/early 19th c. ones well set out and easy to read, though the ordering can be tricky between sections, and you need to keep a close eye on the list of dates & events in the registers that the staff lend you to navigate through them. Non-Conformist records are more of a problem, and the info is scanty.

The baptisms I wrote about are from the Llandewi Ystradenni register, so I don't know whether this would be St David's, which is the parish church according to a quick look on the internet, or St Harmon's. The church at Abbeycwmhir was undergoing repairs at the time which is maybe why they shifted it into the next parish. By the way, parish records for Abbeyc.h. are with Llanbister until 1831 (?) when the church at Abbey was finally recognised in its own right. The entries don't always say which church was used, but sometimes GOL is written with the person's name, indicating that they came from Abbey and were presumably 'done' in the church there.

Re the curiousfox entry - not sure - will look more closely. I'm no longer a member of the website there but if you want to pass the info on that I've posted, please feel free.

Good hunting!
Cherry