Have recently found amongst my late Mothers possessions an old photograph of two elderly ladies most likely some of her Welsh relatives On the back is written the name Edelir or something similar difficult to make out the exact spelling does any one recognise this as a Welsh name I have looked for Welsh names in Google but nothing to match exactly can any one help me with this please Susie
Elidyr ?? Usually a male name, but there are records of use as a female name. Hard to say without seeing a scan of the writing... Regards Jen ________________________________ From: Susie Pateman <susieqp@btinternet.com> To: GLAMORGAN <GLAMORGAN@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, 10 July, 2011 16:33:57 Subject: [GLA] Welsh name Have recently found amongst my late Mothers possessions an old photograph of two elderly ladies most likely some of her Welsh relatives On the back is written the name Edelir or something similar difficult to make out the exact spelling does any one recognise this as a Welsh name I have looked for Welsh names in Google but nothing to match exactly can any one help me with this please Susie -- 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
There is a name Elidyr but I think it's a boys name see Saint Elidyr -----Original Message----- From: Susie Pateman Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 4:33 PM To: GLAMORGAN Subject: [GLA] Welsh name Have recently found amongst my late Mothers possessions an old photograph of two elderly ladies most likely some of her Welsh relatives On the back is written the name Edelir or something similar difficult to make out the exact spelling does any one recognise this as a Welsh name I have looked for Welsh names in Google but nothing to match exactly can any one help me with this please Susie -- 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 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1388 / Virus Database: 1516/3755 - Release Date: 07/09/11