JOHN family Bettws

[Morganllan]

Hello Mark 

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Modified - sorry I had the Carmarthenshire place instead of the Glamorganshire one.
The Parish registers for Betws are at Swansea Record Office:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Bettws/#ChurchRecords

http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=30183

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Morgan

[MarkLlewellyn]

Thanks Morganllan!

[gill10]

Hello Mark. You dont know how pleased i am to get your info. I live in Treorchy but work in Aberdare. I am going on holidays on Wens but will be very interested in maybe meeting upwith you at a later date. I havent got much info as i have found it extremly time consuming trying to trace my family tree on my own. I always said that if i won the lottery i would pay someone who knew what they were doing to trace all my family tree. I have this desire to find out! So gald to hear from you. Please would you email me then after my hoildays i can contact you. Thanks Gill. My email is ^(*)

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[MarkLlewellyn]

Hi Gill

Will try to remember to when you return, but if I forget my email is ^(*) (yes LL is for Llewellyn :p).

My Grand Auntie did much on John Johns' family tree (basically is complete up to like 5 years ago ... she passed on a couple of years ago). She kind of tasked me with tracing back further than John, but I've been a bit slack on it 

The link Morganllan provided says that

"Parish registers prior to 1706 were lost when the place they were kept caught fire. " 

But you never know until you go, so definitely would like to try and track down any records.

Enjoy your holiday!

Warm wishes, Mark.

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[MarkLlewellyn]

Hi Gill
Just posting this to let you know that it's possible the Parish records are at Aberystwyth (near the University or something) and so there's two places I/we will need to check out. This was told to me by one of the men who I do an over 50s IT training session for on Wed in Aberdare. He has traced his descendants back to around 1600s .

PM me (coz quite rightly we shouldn't link emails on a forum) when you get back from your holiday and have time maybe can give you my phone number or something if you really are up for making some time for this

Best wishes, Mark.

[Morganllan]

The Parish registers for Betws (Glamorgan) are at Swansea Record Office:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Bettws/#ChurchRecords

http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=30183

Kind Regards
Morgan

[MarkLlewellyn]

Ah thankyou Morganllan
I now see you did a correction. That's where the confusion was then when I was discussing with Jerry...as there's Betws near Ammanford. Jerry was convinced it is Aberystwyth for the one near Maesteg (spelt Bettws, but with Betws Road running through it lol....no wonder the Welsh confuddled the English ), but I'll try Swansea first...much easier to Swansea than Aberystwyth...plus I think maybe higher chance you are correct
Cheers, Mark.

[gill10]

Hi Mark. Im not sure how to contact you now with my email or phone no. Not sure how to send a personal message?? Maybe someone could explain how too? Do u know how to contact me because we cant put personal details on here.

Thanks
Gill   

[Morganllan]

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Morgan