Just to emphasise the changeable nature of the border in this area, in contrast to Barbara, the certificates I have for Govilon show the following: 1848 - birth in "Upper Govilon in the parish of Llanwenarth Ultra" Registration District Abergavenny Sub-District Blaenavon County Monmouth 1856, 1858 - births in "Govilon Llanwenarth Ultra" Registration District Blaenavon Sub-District Blaenavon County Monmouth I imagine the boundary changes were largely due to the population increase as the area became more industrialised and the administrative units needed altering. As the early directories indicate, Llanwenarth was a large parish, with Govilon a village within it. There's a parish map at http://uk.geocities.com/rowla_d/Parish-Map-Frames.html which will give some idea of the area covered (it's undated but I think it shows the boundaries around 1830). Llanelly, Breconshire was one of the parishes just over the county border alongside Llanwenarth, so there's plenty of scope for all those names to appear in someone's census entries - and what people tell the census enumerator often isn't the precise administrative unit! Regards Barbara Griffiths Coventry UK ----- Original Message ----- From: <B1oatley@aol.com> To: <jokelly@toucansurf.com> Cc: <monmouthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [MON] Govilon > Hello, > I have BMD certificates in front of me for 1883,1895,1896 and the > certificate for 1883 is > Registration District is Merthyr Tydfil > Sub-District Aberdare > Counties of Glamorgan and Brecon > Certificates for 1895,1896 > Registration District is Bedwellty > Sub-District Aberystruth > Counties of Monmouthshire and Brecknock. > So it appears that Brecon/Brec was correct. > Regards Barbara