Any Davies with Lampeter area ancestry out there? I found this interesting item in the 'Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser', Saturday 13 November 1847. "Rat-killing Extraordinary.—On the 11th instant Mr. Joseph Jenkins, of Blaen-plwyf Ystrad, near Lampeter, and his two brothers, both under twelve years of age, killed no less than 107 rats in less than half an hour. The modus operandi was as follows:—The three brothers poured boiling water, or cold water and quick lime, into the rats' holes, and on their attempting to escape they were knocked on the head with the batons which the youths held in their hands. No dogs whatever were used on the occasion,and the dead rats filled a bushel basket." I thought at first that this might be the same Joseph Jenkins that wrote the famous diary (excerpts published some years ago by his great- grandson with a title along the lines of 'Diary of a Welsh Swagman' and mentioned, I believe on this list) but the diarist was from near Blaenplwyf, just south of Aberystwyth (where the TV transmitter is) whereas the rat-catcher was from Blaen-plwyf Ystrad, near Lampeter. David Canberra