http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:24:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=31 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=31#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:45:50 +0000 alison http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=31
Valentine Ashton, 1839 – Longhill
Ann BEVERSLEY, 1684 – this one particular transcription is full of gaps, help is needed!

Trefeglwys wills transcribed to date:

Richard Ap Hugh Ap Ie’un, 1597
John ASHTON, 1733
John ASHTON, Geseilfa, 1834
Roger ASHTON, 1770
Valentine ASHTON, Longhill, 1839
Valentine ASHTON, Maesyblawd, 1845
Valentine ASHTON, 1847
Charles BEMBOW, 1729
Edward BENNETT, Glanyrafon, 1822
William BENNETT, 1753
Ann BEVERSLEY, 1684
Richard BROWN, 1606
Bridget EVANS, 1652
Jane EVANS, 1640
Thomas HALL, 1744
Edward HERBERT, 1604
John JONES, Vicar of Trefeglwys, 1593
Edward LLOYD, 1796
Edward LLOYD, Finnant, 1627
Meredith MORGAN, Aberhafesp, 1638-39
Morgan EVANS, 1724
Richard LEIGHTON, 1629
David LLOYD, 1727
Richard MEYRICKE, 1627
James MORGAN, 1854
Edmund PARTON, 1638-39
Edward SAVAGE, 1653
Elizabeth SAVAGE, nee DAVIES, 1815
Alice SWANCOTT, 1655
John SWANCOTT, 1653
John TILSLEY, 1640
Ralphe TILLESLYE, 1602
Hugh WILSON, Vicar of Maes Bangor, Trefeglwys, 1687
Margaret WILSON, 1659
Evan WOOSNAM, 1853
Anne, vz. John WYNUE, 1623

Please note, you will need database access to be able to view these transcriptions.

Do you have any Trefeglwys wills not listed above that you could donate the transcription for?]]> http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=31 0 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=30 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=30#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:31:24 +0000 alison http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=30
Do you recognise this family? Click onto the image to see an enlarged version. They are described as:

“Trefeglwys Family Migrate: This is a photo of Mr and Mrs Davies and family Trefeglwys, who sailed on the S.S. “Dorie” of the White Star line, for Calgary, West Canada. They intend to settle in a district where now reside friends who emigrated thither last year.”

For those people who are working on this site, and have access to the database, the photo can also be seen here. However, which family to link it too, and what happened to them in Canada?

Around 1926, there was a mass recruitment of farming people from Wales to Canada. My grandfather was one of these people who migrated to Canada that year. Below are some examples of what appeared in the local newspaper (as articles not adverts):

February 16, 1906

Canada’s Call for Britishers
Emigration made easy

So urgent is the demand for British men and boys to work on the land in Canada and for British women and girls for domestic work (both in the cities and on farms), that Her Majesty’s Government and the Government of Canada have made arrangements under which the following special third class fares, from British ports, will be applicable to approved settlers, viz., to Canadian landing ports £3, Montreal £4, Toronto £4 10s, Winnipeg £5 10s, Saskatoon, Begina and Moose Jaw £6, Edmonton and Calgary £6 10s., and to Vancouver £9. Those eligible for these reduced fares are married men of farming experience (with or without children), experienced farm workers, a few men without farming experience, domestic and household workers. In certain cases even part of the reduced fare is advanced. Emigrants are met on arrival in Canada, situations are found, and free advice, information and assistance given for a period of five years by Government superiors.

There is also a scheme for British boys between the ages of 14 and 17, who are given free passages; no farming experience is necessary under this scheme. The boys are met on arrivel [sic] and are placed in homes with people of the same religious denomination, and will receive a small wage, the minimum being ten shillings per week.

The most attractive scheme is known as the “3,000 Families’ Scheme” under which it is ?reposed to settle 3,000 families on farms throughout the various provinces of Canada. Applicants must have had some farming experience. Those families that are approved receive the benefit of the reduced rates, and their children go free to destination. They are placed on settled farms and are granted loans of up to £300 for equipment and stock. The husband and the older members of the family are placed in situations, as near as possible to the farm, to learn Canadian farming and customs, whilst the wife, with the younger children, carries on at the farm, under the advice and assistance of supervisors, until such time as the husband is competent to take over the farm on his own account. The wife is provided with a cow, poultry, pigs, and, if necessary, with a horse and buggy. This scheme provides a splendid opportunity for occupiers of small holdings insufficient to provide a living. Only a small amount of capital is required for the purpose of carrying on until settled. Hundreds of letters of satisfaction have been received from families who went out under the scheme last year. Full particulars of the various schemes and forms of application can be obtained free of charge, from Mr Trevor M Turner, Travel-Emigration Agency, 44 Welsh Walls, Oswestry, an accredited agent for the Colonial governments, and for all steamship lines. Those wishing to go out this Spring should apply at once for application forms.



February 23, 1926

Canada

SATISFIED SETTLERS

The following letters from a husband and wife who went from Chirk, Denbighshire to Canada, last year, under the 3000 Families’ Scheme, have been received by Mr Trevor M. Turner, Travel-Emigration Agent, 44, Welsh Walls, Oswestry.

Cecil Sniller Farm
Panoka, Alberta
11 January 1926

Dear Mr Turnor

I am sorry to have kept you so long, but I have been working on a farm six miles from here all summer. Well, I may say we are going on very nicely so far. We are 14 miles west of Panoka, and 80 miles south of Edmonton. This is a big wheat farming district, but there is quite a little mixed farming and dairying too. I am not starting in on my farm until the spring. I have 90 acres under cultivation, and there is more to break up. Dairying and hogs seem to be going very well here. We have quite a nice house, kitchen, dining riom, and sitting room, with three good bedrooms upstairs, milk house, good well, good barn, stabling for six horses, cow barn for 12 cows, and good hog pasture all fenced. On the voyage out everything on the “Lancastria” was O.K. Fine dining room tables nicely laid out’ the food was very good, also the sleeping apartments. The orchestra played every afternoon for tea. When we got to Panoka we were met by the Mayor and Council with their wives and given breakfast at the Royaol Hotel. We received a great welcome. We wish to thank you for all you did for us, and we intend to “make good”. We are having a lovely winter, and can sit with the door open to have our meals.

Yours respectfully
Richard W. Morgan

Dear Mr Turnor

As Mr Morgan has at last found time to write to you I thought I would enclose a note to let you know how I like Canada. Well I like ti fine, and have only met with kindness everywhere I have been. The people here are all very kind and nice to me. I have a good cow, poultry and a nice hose and buggy, we have had quite an influx of visitors from England to come near to starvation when there are such splendid opportunities waiting for them in Canada. I have got quite fat and bonny since I came out. When we got to our farm we found a nice cooking stove, a table, two chairs, bedsteads, mattress and sundry cooking utensils provided for us, in fact, we are in clover and are going to do our best to win through. No one need be afraid of coming out under the 3,000 families scheme because it is loyal to you all through. A neighbour provided us with all the potatoes we required for the getting up of them. We have also been provided with meat and garden produce. In fact everybody just seems as if they were out to be kindness itself.

Yours sincerely
(Mrs) M. Morgan

The above are typical of hundreds of letters received from families who went out under the scheme last year. Parents should give their children a chance, and write at once for particulars to Mr Trevor M. Turnor, 44 Welsh Walls, Oswestry. ]]> http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=30 0 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=28 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=28#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:12:54 +0000 alison http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=28 Sources section, of the People database (requires authorised login to access).  These have been transcribed from the Montgomeryshire Express and Radnorshire Times.  The title of all these transcripts starts with MERT, and I hope to add more shortly.]]> http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=28 0 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=26 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=26#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:15:09 +0000 alison http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=26 Online Gallery, and the Photo section of the database.

Online Gallery – For generic photos of the Trefeglwys area. Some photos are contemporary, others must older. Within this gallery, I’ve just added a section containing some old postcards, which some of you may be interested in.

Photos: the database -  Photos here are ones of people. They have been put here, as these photos can be linked to individuals and families, to bring family trees to life. Please note that you need to register / sign in to access this section of the site.

Do you have photos, or documents?  -  Do you have any old Trefeglwys postcards, that could be digitally scanned and donated to this site? We would dearly love to see images, and we would appreciate any digital donations of these. Any donated materials will be attributed to you. This is a community site, and through online collaboration it is hoped that we can build a greater understanding of the Trefeglwys parish. This can only happen through sharing of materials.
Incidentally, if you live locally, i.e. Trefeglwys, Llanidloes, mid Wales, and don’t have access to a scanner, I could visit you with a portable scanner / laptop and scan these images in your presence, and I would not take these pictures from you. Please get in touch if you can help.]]> http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=26 0 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=27 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=27#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:20:24 +0000 alison http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=27 here and here,* that relates to “premises wherein they are dated to be interested, are described to be in the parish of Trefeglwys in the County of Montgomery” by “Lucy Matilda the wife of Marshall Christie and Louise Amelia the Wife of Raynor Hector Henry Alexander“.

The document appears to be referring to a deed (which I do not have a copy of), and testifies competency.  Can anyone expand on this?  Secondly, is anyone familiar with these names and what premises might they have owned?

* You will need to register / sign into the database to see these pages.]]> http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=27 0 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=25 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=25#comments Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:52:26 +0000 alison http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=25
On the update front, there’s now over 200 people registered with this site and I’m having huge problems with keeping up. It would help me greatly if communication happened as a community. I’m still in the process of compiling a list of people’s interests* which is rather time consuming. To help me, so I can get a move on with other things, could you please e mail me your Trefeglwys interests, or even write the bit that goes under your name. If you have edit rights to the database, you may want to edit your section yourself.

In the meantime, I’m trying to add some new content, more updates to follow.
* Note you will need database access and be signed in to access these pages.]]> http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=25 0 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=24 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=24#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:21:13 +0000 alison http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=24 I’m now way behind with my e mails, mainly because the move to a new server has eaten up all my time I would have otherwise spent on this site.  This week I hope to get back to where I left off in terms of development.  Thanks for your patience.]]> http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=24 0 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=23 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=23#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:54:26 +0000 alison http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=23
Please don’t take any of that the wrong way, I want to communicate with people, and I hope this site develops your research.  Just, lots of questions re: keeping up with this.  Where possible, please use the forum, at least to interact with others.

Already people are asking me how to build a tree within the database.  I need to transfer instructions from somewhere else, and take this at a steady pace.  First things first though, I need to develop a page which summarises people’s research interests, and reply to those e mails of course …]]> http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23 0 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=22 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=22#comments Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:01:17 +0000 alison http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=22 GenesReunited, and contacted all those with a Trefeglwys link.  If you’ve arrived here via Genes, welcome to the site!  Now we need to get you all to talk to each other, collaborative working in order to identify links between families.

Of course I contacted a couple of people who have been involved in the site since the early days, and I was trying to avoid.  I recognised some researchers names against their ancestors, but the twigs of their trees would catch me out.  Apologies.

Going through surnames (tree that’s already there, census returns), made me realise I already have a good idea which surnames were prominent in the parish, and knew before hitting the search button roughly how many results I was going to get.  However, just doing this also frightens me, re the bottomless pit this whole thing is.]]> http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=22 0 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=21 http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=21#comments Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:10:49 +0000 alison http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?p=21
Frustration on my part, going through old discussion archives in an attempt to try and identify which family someone belongs to.  Realising that I cannot keep this up on a long term basis, where such a project can only get larger.

Currently there’s 840 names in the database, all of which need matching up to a researcher(s).  To address this, I suggest a note is added to each person, and who they are connected to.  Such as “Linked to Joe Bloggs”, or “This person was inputted by and related to Joe Bloggs”.

For old timers, if you have time, please could you go through your family tree, or entries you’ve inputted and add a note to each person via the admin interface.  Please could you also do the same for any new entries which you might create.  This can only be of longer term benefit to us all, to start the very long process of linking families up.]]> http://www.trefeglwys.org.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=21 0