David, Many thanks,but it's the wrong Goytre! My fault....I think I should have put Goytre Fawr Monmouthshire. It's on the Pontypool-Abergavenny road My Apologies Roy On 10 March 2010 10:07, David Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.newmediascene.com/sttheodores/HTM/stpeters.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Roy Davies <[email protected]> wrote: Many thanks, but it's the wrong Goytre! My fault....I think I should have put Goytre Fawr Monmouthshire. It's on the Pontypool-Abergavenny road ============== Dear Roy, The GENUKI website gives the church dedication as St Peter, see: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MON/Goytrey/ -------------- "GOYTREY, a parish in the hundred of Upper Abergavenny, county Monmouth, 5 miles N.E. of Pont-y-Pool, and 5 S. of Abergavenny, its post town. It is situated in the vicinity of the river Usk, and on the Brecon canal, which has a wharf here. The West Midland railway passes in the neighbourhood. The scenery is very beautiful, and a large portion of the surface is woodland. There are quarries of lime and building stone, and tiles are manufactured. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff, value £227. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There are places of worship belonging to the Baptists and Wesleyans. The parochial charities produce about £1 per annum." [Description from "The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland" (1868); transcribed by Colin Hinson] -------------- Kind regards, John -------------------- John Ball, Brecon, Mid-Wales, UK E-mail: [email protected] John's Homepage: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/ Images of Wales: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/walespic/ Welsh Family History Archive: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/wales/ GENUKI Breconshire Maintainer: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/BRE/ Joint Administrator - Powys (& BRE/MGY/RAD) RootsWeb mailing lists