Where do your Welsh ancestors originate from?

[liverpool lass]

Thanks for the Crockfords offer RuthieB but you have already done that for me. Cheers. I have found another one though if you'd like to try - Arthur Thoms Lewis at one time vicar of Ferndale, born 1893.

[RuthieB]

Thanks for the Crockfords offer RuthieB but you have already done that for me. Cheers. I have found another one though if you'd like to try - Arthur Thoms Lewis at one time vicar of Ferndale, born 1893.

Thought I had after I'd posted!! Doh! - Will try Rev Lewis on Monday for you

Cheers RuthieB

[PaulaToo]

My lot are woodworkers and tailors from Pembroke, Some born at(not IN) Pembroke Dock. (IN Pembroke Dock sounds too wet!) Furthest back I can go for a certain date is Great Grandfather and first of the William Stevens/Stephens Mathiases who was born and baptised in Hubberston....Not HOBBERAAM, ANCESTRY.......with his father John and Mother Elizabeth.

[Cal241]

My Mum is a Kerfoot and always thought her dads family were Welsh through and through............. well they were until 1819 ish, when some of the Warrington Kerfoot boys bought farm land in St Asaph and surrounding areas.
From what I can make out there were no Kerfoots in Wales before this time so all the Kerfoots in Wales are from the same tree..................... 

[SallyCat]

I too always thought my ancestors were Welsh,  but so far its only my Dad and his Dad and some siblings.. lol...  All born in Merthyr Tydfil.  Turns out they seem to come from Suffolk !

Then it gets even funnier.. my mothers Bristol side of the family eventually end up coming from Suffolk too ! EEEK !  Wondering if I get far back enough they might be related somehow!     

[RuthieB]

Thanks for the Crockfords offer RuthieB but you have already done that for me. Cheers. I have found another one though if you'd like to try - Arthur Thoms Lewis at one time vicar of Ferndale, born 1893.

Wow - a really interesting one!!
Crockfords 1939

Lewis, Arthur Thomas. Educated at Fizwilliam Hall , Cambridge. BA 1923, MA 1926. Deacon 1919 St Davids for Llandaff; Priested 1920, Llandaff. Curate of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath 1919-23, Neath with Llantwit 1922-5, Aberavon 1925-9. Vicar of Christchurch Ferndale, Diocese of Llandaff from 1929. (Gross income 340/-, Net 295/- & House). Surrogate from 1929.


Crockfords 1965/66

 (All the above plus...) Vicar of Christchurch Ferndale 1929-40; Resolven, Diocese Llandaff from 1940; Surrogate from 1929, Rural Dean of Groneath Upper (west) from 1955, Honorary Canon of Llandaff Cathedral 1958-62; Canon of St Nicholas in Llandaff Cathedral from 1962. Address: Vicarage, Resolven, Neath Glamorgan, tel: Resolven 354.

RuthieBx

[VillageDuckpond]

This is a shot in the dark  I see you have an ancestor born in Hubberston. Would you by any chance know of the Grunnahs from Hubberston?

Sasha

[liverpool lass]

Thanks RuthieB. This is really useful! Arthur is the brother of William Henry whose info you looked up for me previously. Do you know what 'surrogate' means? Is it a sort of locum? Does it say when he died?

[RuthieB]

A surrogate, according to my dictionary, is 'a deputy, such as a clergyman, appointed to deputise for a bishop in granting marriage licences'.

He doesn't appear in the Corckfords after 1965/6; I only had a quick look through the supplemental pages of the next two additions to see if he was in the deceased bit, but no.  I suppose you'd have to see if you could find him on BMD somewhere.

Hope all this helps; pleasure to assist...

Ruthieb