place name

[tac]

can any one tell me where in Wales this place is please,
                          Penmaen Jowe.

[Flattybasher9]

Could the name be a mistranscription.

Have a look here,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_villages_in_Gower

Regards

Malky

[osprey]

where did you find the name? If it's on a census, could you give the ref, please? Or which county it's in? There's more than one place name beginning Penmaen.

[tac]

hi,found it on ancestry in the 1901 census,
 Elizabeth Jane Williams
Birth -1884, Penmaen Jowe
 in 1901, Henllys, Cardiganshire, Wales

[osprey]

looks like it says Penmaenpwl on the census

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penmaenpool

so this family in 1891?

Lower Wesley Court, Dolgellau, Merionethshire RG12/4642 folio 46 pg 26
Humphrey Williams head widower 42 stone mason
Ioan son 13 printer's apprentice
Anne C dau 10
Elizth J dau 7
Gwen Parry servant 45
Robert Parry boarder 15 printer's apprentice
all born Dolgellau

 

[osprey]

forgot to give you the birth reg

Elizabeth Jane Williams sept qtr 1883 Dolgelly vol 11b pg 356

[trish18]

Hi,

Looking at the actual transcription, I think it could read 'Penmaenpwl', which may be Penmaenpool, Dolgellau, in the county of Gwynedd.

Regards

Trish

[osprey]

Gwynedd wasn't the county at the time as it was one of the ones created in 1974. It was Merionethshire as the census I posted above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynedd

[tac]

hi,thank you all for your help.my elizabrth jane is down as being born in  Penmaenpool in the 1911(d.o.b 1885) census,but as i understand it my elizabeths mother was called priscilla(might be a second name)this person belongs to my sister-in-laws family and i am trying to help her(she has no pc)to find the mother of elizabeth and help her with her family tree.