It would be very helpful if you could give us some idea of dates you are looking for. 1790s? 1840s? 1950s? Also some idea of any census that this couple appear on. There appears to be a marriage in Narberth registration district of Morris RICHARDS and Mary PHILIPPS in June quarter 1838. This registration district included a number of parishes in the west of Carmarthenshire, as well as many in Pembrokeshire. This couple appear to have been living at Begelly Moor in 1851, in Begelly, Pembrokeshire with numerous children He was from 'Coffick', Carmarthenshire which might well have been Cyffig ( see http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CMN/Cyffig/index.html ) which was close to the Pembrokeshire border and in Narberth Registration District. People used to driving to Pembrokeshire will recognise that Red Roses in the parish of Cyffig is on the main road from Carmarthen and St Clears towards Tenby and Begelly. She was from Begelly. Begelly was a mining area where the mines seem to have been running down by mid/late 19th century, and a number of people migrated east to mining areas of Glamorgan and East Carmarthenshire. PHILIPPS is a Pembrokeshire spelling adopted by some landowning families, and presumably others. "BEGELLY (BUGELI), a parish, in the union of and hundred of NARBERTH, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 5 miles (S. by E.) from Narberth, on the road to Tenby; containing, with the chapelry of Williamston, which supports its own poor, 1159 inhabitants. The substratum of the soil in this parish is coal, of excellent quality, and in great request for the drying of malt and hops by the proprietors of breweries and distilleries: it is chiefly procured by a company under Sir R.B.P. Philipps, Bart., and J.M. Childe, Esq., who are the chief proprietors of the soil, and receive one-sixth part, as their share of the produce: there are also some smaller proprietors, who exact one-fifth, and even one-fourth, part from those who work only on a limited scale." from http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Begelly/Begelly1844.html extracted by Gareth Hicks Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "karen" <kmabey@bigpond.net.au> To: <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:26 PM Subject: [GLA] FW: marriage help please > Sorry if posted twice. > > > > > > Hi > > Looking for help with a marriage of Morris RICHARDS and Mary COLE please. >>From what I'm told Morris was from Carmarthenshire think he died Narberth > Pembrokeshire. > > Any information will be helpful. > > > > Regards > > Karen. > > -- > > To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be > found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >