I should just like to register my interest in a branch of my family that ended up in the Rhondda. William WHITTINGTON, Penygraig, died at 10.30am, Saturday 18 February 1899, a methodist preacher. I believe he was born in the early 1830s at Penegoes, near Machynlleth, where his faher, John Whittington, had been a sexton. I's be interested in hearing from anyone else with an interest in William Whittington. I know he had children: Griffith Whittington, who was a land surveyor at the tome of his father's death; Rowland Whittington, studying at Aberystwyth with a view to becoming a schoolmaster; and Mary Whittington, a teacher at Ysgol Trewilliam, Penygraig. The on-line Welsh newspapers at the NLW show a Griffith Whittington of 62 Hendrecavan Road, Penygraig, marrying Miss Catherine Morris of Aberystwyth on 26 Dec 1900 (Aberystwyth Observer, 4 Jan 1900). William had two brothers, the more famous of whom, Rowland Whittington (1822 - 7 Feb 1878), known as 'Egwisyn', seems to have been a poet and a religious firebrand who, after some major fuss (which I have not got to the bottom of), went to America, where he died in utter poverty. He was known for having translated an account of the Indian Mutiny into Welsh. His wife died in Tywyn on 30 May 1892. The least well-known of these three was Edward Whittington (Feb 1822 - 27 Dec 1891), gardener of Pwllhobi, Llanbadarn Fawr, near Aberystwyth. His granddaughter, Margaret Jones (1883 - 1955), was my paternal grandmother. I'd be most interested to hear of any information on what became of William Whittington's descendants. I imagine I shall be able to find out some more as I work through the old newspapers and more become available online. However, in case there is anyone else with an interest I thought it best to state mine. (Some of the best information I have got has come through other researchers discovering my messages on the Rootsweb archives some years after I lodge them!) David Canberra (Aberystwyth gynt)