Hi Clare There is a parish called Penrith in Pembrokeshire - see http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Penrith/ You might get some help from the Dyfed Rootsweb mailing list. I don't think there were iron mines in the area, but there were slate quarries, so he may have transferred his skills to that. Anna At 10:29 20/05/2015, Clare Dubay via wrote: >I am sending this request to both the Glamorgan and Monmouthshire List. > >Currently I am researching an Irish Catholic family named Lawler, who spent >approximately 10 years in Wales after leaving Ireland: that was before they >moved on to London, South Africa, New Zealand and eventually, Australia. >Having hit the 'brick wall' with my research in Wales, I am hoping that >someone can give me some more help. (I have had good leads from the list >before.) > >James and Esther (Essie) Lawler appear on the 1851 census of Cwmdare, living >at Penywaun with their sons Michael, 5 (born in Dublin) and John, 2 born in >Aberdare. James is described as an 'excavator of iron mine'. > >I am very keen to find a record of the next son born, Hugh, as this was my >grandfather: Hugh was probably born in 1854, possibly in Monmouthshire. I >cannot find any record of his birth or christening. On his marriage >certificate, it states that Hugh was born in Penrith, Wales. I assume this >to be a misrepresentation of Penarth: are there any other possibilities? > >Being RC, it follows that John and Hugh were christened soon after birth. >Following on from information given to me previously, I have been looking >for baptism records from the few RC churches in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire >at the time, but with no luck so far. > >Would there be any school records that I could search for Michael? > >Would there be any records of employment available to search? > >The family had moved on to London by the end of 1856. But I can find no >record of father James, and the two eldest sons, Michael and John, on the >1861 census in London. I did find a John Sawlor on the Glamorgan census of >that year. In the registration district of Merthyr Tydfil, parish of >Merthyr Tydfil, sub-district Merthyr Tydfil, there is 12 year old John >Sawlor. Could somebody please identify the rest of the household for me? > >I would be grateful for any suggestions that you can make, as I am running >out of ideas. > >Thanking you > >Clare in Victoria, Australia > > > >-- > >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 web site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > >- >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://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/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