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From which counties do your Welsh ancestors orignate?

Anglesey
29 (5.4%)
Breconshire
38 (7.1%)
Caernarvonshire
36 (6.7%)
Cardiganshire
24 (4.5%)
Carmarthenshire
43 (8%)
Denbighshire
45 (8.4%)
Flintshire
39 (7.3%)
Glamorganshire
95 (17.8%)
Merionethshire
25 (4.7%)
Monmouthshire
56 (10.5%)
Montgomeryshire
34 (6.4%)
Pembrokeshire
50 (9.3%)
Radnorshire
21 (3.9%)

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Offline PaulaToo

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Re: Where do your Welsh ancestors originate from?
« Reply #45 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 15:26 BST (UK) »
Things are getting even better...
Not only do my family seem to have come from all over Pembrokeshire, but have just found that the other side of the family originated in Wrexham....and there they were thinking they were Irish....with a name like Jones  ???
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: Where do your Welsh ancestors originate from?
« Reply #46 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 16:13 BST (UK) »
Goodness, Paula you might be related to me  :o :o :o
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Re: Where do your Welsh ancestors originate from?
« Reply #47 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 16:18 BST (UK) »
Only Welsh relative I have found so far is my GGGGrandfather John Beard b 1799 Monmouth

He married Elizabeth Knight of Redbrook Gloucestershire and worked in a tin works before dying in 1880 in Wolverhampton

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Re: Where do your Welsh ancestors originate from?
« Reply #48 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 16:23 BST (UK) »
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, wouldn't that be nice, Gadget :D
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
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Re: Where do your Welsh ancestors originate from?
« Reply #49 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 21:52 BST (UK) »
Or if your "lucky" Paula you could be related to me!

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Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Jones, Griffiths. Stephens, Parry, Gabriel, Conway, Hughes, Evans, Roberts, Lea, Hanmer. Peake, Edwards. Newnes, Davies. Thomas. "Blythin".
All North Wales.
Conway, Durber, Cartlidge, Lovatt, Bebington. Brindley, Sankey, Brunt. Dean. Clewes. Rhodes. Mountford,Walker,Bache, "Gibbons"Hood. Taylor
All Stoke-on-Trent.
Francis - Nantwich Cheshire.
Dennell - Cheshire/Staffordshire.
Talbot-Shropshire
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Re: Where do your Welsh ancestors originate from?
« Reply #50 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 22:18 BST (UK) »
Now that would be luck ;D
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: Where do your Welsh ancestors originate from?
« Reply #51 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 22:28 BST (UK) »
It might well be, Paula, because William might be able to get access to the 1841 Wrexham Town census  :)
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Re: Where do your Welsh ancestors originate from?
« Reply #52 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 22:37 BST (UK) »
He might indeed.

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William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Jones, Griffiths. Stephens, Parry, Gabriel, Conway, Hughes, Evans, Roberts, Lea, Hanmer. Peake, Edwards. Newnes, Davies. Thomas. "Blythin".
All North Wales.
Conway, Durber, Cartlidge, Lovatt, Bebington. Brindley, Sankey, Brunt. Dean. Clewes. Rhodes. Mountford,Walker,Bache, "Gibbons"Hood. Taylor
All Stoke-on-Trent.
Francis - Nantwich Cheshire.
Dennell - Cheshire/Staffordshire.
Talbot-Shropshire
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« Reply #53 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 22:52 BST (UK) »
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