Kane Family search in Garndiffaith, Trevethin, Abersychan, Pontypool

[WT&JP]

Hi Treebird,
Please have a look at this web site it may help in your search.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monfamilies/monprts.htm


WT

[djunna]

Hello Treebird

There was a Quaker Meeting House in the Trosnant area of Pontypool. Everything was put down as Trevethin but covered a bigger area.  There was also one in the village of  Pontymoile, Just outside Pontypool. I have a photo of it somewhere.


Good Luck

Darren

[treebird]

Dear Darren,
Thank you for your post regarding the Quaker Meeting Houses in the Pontypool area.  Do you by any chance know where there would be Quaker Meeting Notes from these? Do you know the dates in which these meeting houses were active?

Supposedly my great-great-grandparents used to have meetings in their home. They were also coal miners.  I am wondering if they worked in Blaenafon if they lived in Trevethin.

Do you know if old Quaker meeting notes in Wales were mostly written in Welsh or English?

thanks for your help. I'd love to see that photo you mentioned.

all the best,
Pamela

[djunna]

Hello Pamela.

Im Not sure where the notes would be now,  Maybe you could try the local archives in Ebbw Vale. Pontypool is an English speaking area now,  but at the time it was very mixed, so it could be either. Do you have an address of where they lived? If they lived in the Trevethin Parish,  they wouldnt have had to travel to Blaenavon for work in the mines, there was plenty on theyre doorstep in Pontypool.
The old Quaker building in Trosnant Pontypool is still there ( Albeit not the original)  But it has for the last 60 years at least been a masonic hall. Just behind this building overlooking an old Dram Road in Pontypool Park is a Quaker Burial ground.  The grave stones were still in place up untill last year, and are now resting against the building. Last year their were about 20 of them, and they are quite hard to read but date from the late 1700s to 1800s. Il try to find out what quaker buildings were in the Garndiffaith area as you mentioned High St up the Garn.