Hello Swansea Valley history experts! A family member died of cholera aged 57 in 1866. She died in Trebanos where her parents lived (but not in their house) and was buried the following day at Llangiwg. It has taken me a while to sort this out because she lived in Ystradgynlais from at least 1841 to 1861, the Llangiwg register transcription describes her as from Ystalyfera, her husband was buried at Ystradgynlais parish church in 1856 and the family had very strong connections with Alltwen chapel with many burials there. I know there was a cholera outbreak in Ystalyfera in 1866. My question is whether there were designated burial grounds for cholera victims and whether Llangiwg was one such place. Pam Marsden

Trebanos was in Llangiwg parish. That was why she was buried there. There are 139 items in the Cambrian Index about Cholera in 1866, but none as far as I can see mentioning the Swansea Valley. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pamela Marsden" <davidpam@globalnet.co.uk> To: <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 3:41 PM Subject: [GLA] Burial of cholera victims > Hello Swansea Valley history experts! > > A family member died of cholera aged 57 in 1866. She died in Trebanos > where her parents lived (but not in their house) and was buried the > following day at Llangiwg. It has taken me a while to sort this out > because she lived in Ystradgynlais from at least 1841 to 1861, the > Llangiwg register transcription describes her as from Ystalyfera, her > husband was buried at Ystradgynlais parish church in 1856 and the family > had very strong connections with Alltwen chapel with many burials there. > > I know there was a cholera outbreak in Ystalyfera in 1866. My question is > whether there were designated burial grounds for cholera victims and > whether Llangiwg was one such place. > > Pam Marsden > -- > > 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 >

My sincere thanks to everyone who responded to my query, including Caryl Jones who replied off-list. Pam Marsden