Ann: Your last message raises a question that I don't think has been addressed on this list, at least that I recall in the last five or six years: I see references to "old Monmouthshire" as opposed to today's Monmouthshire, as in your message re. new Gwent Society publications. The references I see to "Gwent" I understand as a brief realignment of boundaries and renaming ca. 1974 that was latter abandoned in favor of what is Monmouthshire today. However, as some of us are researching in the 1800s and before, could you roughly describe -- or suggest a source or map which indicates it -- what "old" Monmouthshire more or less encompassed? I am finding records and references for areas/places that seem today to be in Glamorganshire, for instance, not Monmouthshire. Thanks, Sally

Because of the many changes of county boundaries over the years it is difficult for me to describe what was Monmouthshire around 1800. I use http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ when I want to look at parts of the old county. Gwent FHS has a map of the parishes of the county available and also one of the Churches - contact me off list for further details. Ann