Dear Larry, Apart from being existing Welsh place-names, the words Bala and Cynwyd have their own meanings: Y Bala - 'isthmus, route between two lakes or areas of wet ground' Cynwyd - personal name. The identity of Cynwyd is unknown, but spelling variants of this name appear in documents going back to the late 13th century. Source: "Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales", by Hywel Wyn Owen and Richard Morgan, Gomer Press, Llandysul, 2008. Kind regards, John -------------------- John Ball, Brecon, Mid-Wales, UK E-mail: john@jlb2011.co.uk Personal Homepage: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk Images of Wales: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/walespic/ Welsh Family History Archive: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/wales/ Blog: http://johnofbrecon.com Webmaster, Breconshire Local & Family History Society http://www.blfhs.co.uk/ GENUKI Breconshire Maintainer: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/BRE/ Administrator - Powys RootsWeb mailing list -----Original Message----- From: David Rowlands via Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 10:38 PM To: Larry Thompson Cc: glamorgan mailing list Subject: Re: [GLA] bala cynwyd Larry These are Welsh place-names. Bala is a town in north Wales (more correctly in Welsh 'Y Bala' where the 'Y' is the definite article), and Cynwyd is a another, smaller settlement north of Bala on the back road to the town of Corwen. They are in the valley of the Afon Dyfrdwy (river Dyfrdwy) which, by the time it gets to the sea is called the 'river Dee' by the English. David Canberra > On 31 Jan 2015, at 9:16 am, Larry Thompson via <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> > wrote: > > Hi group: > The subject is a town in Pennsylvania, US. Is there in interpretation of > the meaning? > > Larry > -- > My genealogy page > http://twothompsongenealogies.com/ > Allegheny County Maps page > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lt0168/maps/