Hello Listers, Can somebody please clarify for me - exactly WHERE Abergavenny was in 1817? Location has apparently been in Brecknockshire (Powys) and Monmouthshire, with Monmouthshire (now Gwent) once classified as "England", not a County of Wales. A recent post to Powys List, even included HEREFORD with Monmouthshire, for location of 'Abergavenny District'; is this somebody even more confused than me, by Border re-shuffles, OR was Hereford really once included with Monmouthshire?? I am sending this message to both Powys and Monmouthshire Lists - I'm sure just about everybody probably knows the answer. Exact dates would be very helpful to my research. Thanks for reading this. Kind regards, Dawn (Tasmania)

The town of Abergavenny is in Monmouthshire. See the GENUKI page http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MON/Abergavenny/index.html It is an ancient market town in the Usk valley, very close to the boundaries of Breconshire [Brecknockshire] in Wales and Herefordshire in England, so that a number of places with Abergavenny as their post town may actually be in those counties. The Registration district of Abergavenny, from 1st July 1837, based on the Poor Law Union of the same name, varied in its extent with time. See http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/abergavenny.html which lists the parishes within it. Once Bedwellty registration district was started on 1st July 1861 the populous industrialised parishes of Bedwellty and Aberystruth which included towns such as Ebbw Vale, Blaina and Tredegar were taken out of the Abergavenny registration district. In the early 19th century Abergavenny was also used as the administrative centre for scattered congregations of various religious denominations, so people from as far afield as Tredegar may appear in Abergavenny Baptism records. If you search the archives of this list you may well find multiple attempts to explain when and why Monmouthshire was treated for some purposes (by the English) as in England rather than Wales. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "D & H Stanton" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 PM Subject: [MON] Abergavenny > Hello Listers, > > Can somebody please clarify for me - exactly WHERE Abergavenny was in > 1817? > > Location has apparently been in Brecknockshire (Powys) and Monmouthshire, > with Monmouthshire (now Gwent) once classified as "England", not a County > of Wales. > > A recent post to Powys List, even included HEREFORD with Monmouthshire, > for location of 'Abergavenny District'; is this somebody even more > confused than me, by Border re-shuffles, OR was Hereford really once > included with Monmouthshire?? > > I am sending this message to both Powys and Monmouthshire Lists - I'm sure > just about everybody probably knows the answer. Exact dates would be very > helpful to my research. > > Thanks for reading this. > Kind regards, > Dawn (Tasmania)