My Genealogy.
My interest in Genealogy and my family tree started when I was young, with the tales my dad told me about his family. I enjoyed going to Wales, meeting family I had never met, and listening to stories and tales of past and present relatives. My interest was further ignited after we discovered that my grandfather on my maternal line was, in fact, from an Italian family but had hidden this fact from his wife and children until he was old and in failing health.
It amazes me how addictive genealogy is, and I often spend hours and sometimes days glued to my research, searching out new relatives. I have been lucky enough to discover cousins living in many different countries around the world, and thanks to having my DNA tested, I have been able to prove links to cousins that paper records could not prove.
Laleston is a village and a community in Bridgend County Borough, south Wales, directly west of Bridgend town centre. As a community, Laleston includes the areas of Bryntirion, Cefn Glas, Tythegston and Broadlands.
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Epping is a market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. Part of the metropolitan and urban area of London, it is 17 miles north-east of Charing Cross. It is surrounded by the northern end of Epping Forest and is on a ridge of land between the River Roding and River Lea valleys.
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Bridell (Welsh: Y Bridell) is a small settlement and parish in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. The parish includes the village of Pen-y-Bryn. Together with the parishes of Cilgerran and Llantood, it is in the community of Cilgerran.
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Llantood (formerly Llantyd, Llantwyd or Llan-Illtyd) is a hamlet and parish in Cilgerran community, north Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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St Dogmaels (Welsh: Llandudoch) is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the estuary of the River Teifi, a mile downstream from the town of Cardigan in neighbouring Ceredigion.
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Ystradyfodwg or Ystrad Dyfodwg (Vale of Tyfodwg) was an ancient upland parish in Glamorgan, Wales. It is believed to have been named after Dyfodwg (or Tyfodwg), a 6th-century Saint or chieftain. The parish included most of the area, which would later be known as Rhondda, and was named after the parish rivers, Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach.
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Lamyatt is a village and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. It lies 5 miles southeast of Shepton Mallet, 2 miles northeast of Castle Cary, and 3 miles south of Evercreech.
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Catcott is a rural village and civil parish situated close to Edington, 7 miles to the east of Bridgwater on the Somerset Levels to the north of the Polden Hills in Somerset, England.
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Compton Martin is a small village and civil parish within the Chew Valley in Somerset and in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority in England.
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Barnsbury is an area of north London in the London Borough of Islington.
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Blaen-porth, or Blaenporth, is a small village in the community of Aberporth in south Ceredigion, Wales. It is situated on the A487 highway approximately 2 miles south of the village of Aberport, between the villages of Blaenannerch and Sarnau.
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Old Ford is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets that is named after the natural Ford, which provided a crossing of the River Lea.
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Ogmore (Welsh: Ogwr) is a village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales on the River Ogmore. It grew around the now-ruined Ogmore Castle, built by the Normans.
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Aurelius is a town in Cayuga County, New York, USA. The town was named after the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. It is at the western edge of the county and borders the city of Auburn.
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Tremain is a hamlet and ancient parish in Cardiganshire, some four miles north-east of the county town, Cardigan.
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Pentonville is an area in North London, located in the London Borough of Islington. It is located 1.75 miles north-northeast of Charing Cross on the Inner Ring Road. Pentonville was developed on the northwestern edge of the ancient parish of Clerkenwell on the New Road. It is named after Henry Penton, the developer of the area.
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The Borough of Ogwr was one of six districts of Mid Glamorgan in Wales, which existed from 1974 to 1996.
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Llancarfan is a rural village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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The founder of St Silas church in Pentonville was Father A. L. Courteney, Vicar of Saint James, Pentonville. Saint Silas was carved out of his parish. Father Courtenay bought land, previously the site of a brewery, at the junction of Risinghill Street and Penton Street.
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The Anglican Church Of St Mary and St John in Lamyatt, within the English county of Somerset, was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II listed building.
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The present chapel, dated 1897, is built in the Simple Round-Headed style of the short-wall entry type.
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St Michael's Church, Tremain, is a redundant church in the hamlet of Tremain (or Tremaen), Ceredigion, Wales. Cadw has designated it as a Grade II* listed building and is under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.
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St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Chingford, London. The church is a Grade II* listed building.
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The current church building was erected in the 1850s on the foundations of an older church. The architect was Mr. Withers of London. There is a font, said to be of pre-Norman origin, outside, by the front porch, indicating an earlier history of worship in the community.
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The Church of St John the Baptist in Axbridge, Somerset, England, was built in the 13th century and has been designated as a grade 1 listed building.
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This story appeared in the Western Mail on November 7th 1923.
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This story appeared in the Western Mail on November 8th 1923.
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This story appeared in the Nottingham Evening Post on November 9th 1923.
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