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Herefordshire / Re: Thomas Probert- Staunton
« on: Sunday 07 June 09 13:15 BST (UK) »
Roy:
Thanks for the quick reply and offer of help. I wonder if you are publishing any of your findings on a website? Photographs and maps would be lovely to see.
I have not visited Bedwellty . . .in part because I could not find it! My AA road maps did not show it and I did not plan ahead with maps from the web. Looking at a google satellite photo this morning I see a housing complex rising up the hill to the north of the Bedwellty Rd. B4511, to the east of the Cwmsyfiog Rd. (A4049). I am guessing that this might be the old mining community of Bedwellty? But on the top of the hill and south of the B4511 a short distance is some sort of complex partly obscured by the name "Bedwellty". Some clarification would help. None of my maps identifies Cwmsyfiog, but there is a rail stn. about 1.5 km north on A4049 at the junction with B4511 (rail stn. a bit to the west of the Cwmsyfiog Rd.) which I gather to be Brithdir?
So a map of the area from the 1850 - 1900 time frame with the various pits being identified would be fascinating to look at.
I wonder if any old pit records exist? Pay sheets, that kind of thing, which would identify the workers? My great grandfather, according to a daughter, Blodwyn, went into the pits at the age of 8. That would have been in Bedwellty and the year would have been about 1862 (I understand an act of 1842 restricted children under 12 from working in the pits but it is known that this law was not followed).
So, as you study this area and community it would be fascinating to see any write-ups, maps or photo collections that you assemble.
Kenneth Scott
Dunedin, Florida
Thanks for the quick reply and offer of help. I wonder if you are publishing any of your findings on a website? Photographs and maps would be lovely to see.
I have not visited Bedwellty . . .in part because I could not find it! My AA road maps did not show it and I did not plan ahead with maps from the web. Looking at a google satellite photo this morning I see a housing complex rising up the hill to the north of the Bedwellty Rd. B4511, to the east of the Cwmsyfiog Rd. (A4049). I am guessing that this might be the old mining community of Bedwellty? But on the top of the hill and south of the B4511 a short distance is some sort of complex partly obscured by the name "Bedwellty". Some clarification would help. None of my maps identifies Cwmsyfiog, but there is a rail stn. about 1.5 km north on A4049 at the junction with B4511 (rail stn. a bit to the west of the Cwmsyfiog Rd.) which I gather to be Brithdir?
So a map of the area from the 1850 - 1900 time frame with the various pits being identified would be fascinating to look at.
I wonder if any old pit records exist? Pay sheets, that kind of thing, which would identify the workers? My great grandfather, according to a daughter, Blodwyn, went into the pits at the age of 8. That would have been in Bedwellty and the year would have been about 1862 (I understand an act of 1842 restricted children under 12 from working in the pits but it is known that this law was not followed).
So, as you study this area and community it would be fascinating to see any write-ups, maps or photo collections that you assemble.
Kenneth Scott
Dunedin, Florida