Thanks Megan Of course I will dig around FMP to try and sort this – but it will take longer than I have right now. Thanks for your confirmation anyway regarding patronymics.. Brian From: Megan Roberts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 06 March 2012 09:21 To: Brian P. Swann; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dyfed] FindMyPast Brian My guess would be that if you looking are around 1800 that you could well be hitting patronymic names. I found an example of this on a wedding certificate for a marriage in 1837. The husband's name is John Griffith and his father is Griffith Williams. GRO included a note to say that they had double checked the registers to make sure that the information that they held was correct. As an aside by the end of the 1800s the family appears to have added a "s" to their surname to become Griffiths. Its just another complication! Megan From: Brian P. Swann <[email protected]> To: 'Megan Roberts' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Monday, 5 March 2012, 23:41 Subject: RE: [Dyfed] FindMyPast Thanks for this post, Megan. I have been too busy to do much with FindMyPast - and I have specific interests in Llanboidy, Llanstadwell, Carmarthen and Llansadwrnen - so it is useful to know these are missing. And although it is off-county, FindMyPast has already produced what I think is my wife's g-g-g-grandfather, Lewis Morgan, son of John Rowland Evan Morgan, being baptised at Radyr near Cardiff on 16 June 1799. I had been looking for him occasionally around Llantwit Vardre, which is up nearer Pontypridd. Is this likely to be a patronymic-type list of Christian names? Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Megan Roberts Sent: 05 March 2012 10:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dyfed] Children of John Barnett If you look on Findmypast under news then in the story about the Welsh records click on the hyperlink on the National Library this then takes you to a page with more detail about the records and on the left hand side if you select the tab "parish registers" that tells you which ones will not included through the choice of the Parish in question. In the Diocese of St Davids the list reads: Llanboidy w Meidrim and Merthyr, Llanedi w Tycroes and Saron, Llandeilo and Maesteilo w Taliaris and Llandyfeisant, Llanstadwel and Neyland, St Peter's and St John's, Carmarthen, Laugharne w Llansadwrnen and Llandawke, Betws w All Saints and St Michael's, Ammanford. The same article also gives you some reasons as to why records might not be available, my favourite one being the cow in Anglesey that is said to have eaten their records! Megan ________________________________ From: Brian P. Swann <[email protected]> To: 'Lynne Ingalls' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Monday, 5 March 2012, 0:41 Subject: Re: [Dyfed] Children of John Barnett You need to wait just a few weeks and they will be online at FindMyPast, assuming they survive. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lynne Ingalls Sent: 04 March 2012 23:17 To: [email protected] Subject: [Dyfed] Children of John Barnett List - I am looking for children of John Barnett and Mary Bennett who were married at St. Mary’s parish, Haverfordwest in 1746. I cannot find any baptismal records on-line for this time period. Does anyone have access to these parish records? Lynne in Tucson ================================ Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ================================ Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ================================ Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message