Lynne As a matter of general interest, these boarding schools can sometimes still be around and hold records of value. When I was trying to work out what became of my great grandmother's brother's family, school records helped. He (Rev John Thomas 1843-1924) was from the Llanfihangel genau'r glyn area, of farming stock, but somehow got a master's degree at Oxford in 1872 and became a vicar, ending up at Laugharne (which I visited last April and, to my surprise and delight, found a stone plaque on the inside wall of the old church in memory of him and his wife). His two sons I found at a school in England in the 1891 census (St John's) and a quick Google found the school. The secretary of the Old Johnian Society kindly emailed me records, which included not only interesting detail of their school careers but a few clues as to what happened afterward, through to the 1950s! Anyway, my message is that school records can be useful and may be surprisingly accessible from afar. I found the same in respect of the children of another of my great grandmother's siblings, who lived in Borth, but whose children went to Llandovery College. Hwyl fawr David Canberra On 12/12/2009, at 1:22, Lynne Kleingertner wrote: > Hi Jen, > > You probably already know about this website for Jewish Communities > and > Congregations in Wales. > http://www.jewishgen.org/SIGs/JCRUK/wales_counties.htm . I ran > across it > while taking a genealogy course recently. > > I was interested in your comment about a connection between the Jewish > boarding school in Landyssul and Brighton/Hove. My Davies ancestors > weren't > Jewish, but in 1861 my Gr. Grandfather and two of his brothers (from > Tal-y-bont) were in boarding school in Brighton. I'm curious to > learn more > about boarding schools, how they were chosen etc. It's on my list > of things > to learn, when I first learn how to pack a 30 hour genealogy day > into a > real-time 24 hour day!! > > Lynne > > > ================================ > Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:29:32 -0000, David Rowlands <drowlan1@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > ...(Rev John Thomas > 1843-1924) was from the Llanfihangel genau'r glyn area, of farming > stock, but somehow got a master's degree at Oxford in 1872 and became > a vicar, ending up at Laugharne > David > Canberra David Do not be surprised that your kinsman went up to Oxford. In Wales, the University of Oxford was seen as an academic pinnacle of achievement and there is a long association of the University with Wales. Indeed Oxford is one of the few English cities having a distinctive Welsh name (Rhydychen). The connexions of Jesus College with Wales is particularly close. See http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/history/welsh.php When I was there in the early 1970s the place teemed with Welshmen. There is even an Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir in the city (although most members are English). Best wishes Allen Williams Sale Cheshire -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/