Thank you Nicola for your very helpful response. I wasn't aware of either the Maldwyn index or the digital microfilms at the National Archives. Interesting that you should mention the Lloyds of Cefnbarrach, as my interest in Lewis Evans is to find out if he was a grandfather of the Margaret Morgan who had married into that family. Roderick On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:00 PM, <nicolabj@waitrose.com> wrote: > > Hi Roderick I don't know about 1630s wills for Llanwnog. I know that > some > Montgomeryshire wills are found at the Hereford registry, though. Also > the > National Archives hold some wills in categories other than PROB 11, > which is > what is searchable in Documents Online, for example some from the > Commonwealth period. The latter are downloadable in huge files from > their > digital microfilm section. I don't know what other collections there > are, > but I think there are some. My real reason for writing is to draw your > attention to a poem written on Lewis Evans of Plasau Duon by James Dwnn > which is held by the National Library of Wales. Details at: > http://bit.ly/TU3Nxu The search engine at this (LLGC Maldwyn) site also > brings up some other Plasau Duon references. (search on Plasau in Pwnc > (lle)). I have come across other families living at Plasau Duon, but > much > later - Gittins in the 1700s who moved from Llanllugan and later a > branch of > the Lloyds of Cefn Barrach, Trefeglwys, family. Best wishes Nicola BJ > -----Original Message----- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:25:25 -0400 From: > Roderick Ward Subject: [POWYS] Where to find pre-1858 Powys wills. To: > powys > Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 A 1904 volume > of > Montgomeryshire Collections lists a number of wills from the 1630s and > 1640s > from Carno and Llanwnnog. It gives no source. One of the wills I have > tracked down as a PCC will. A few others show up on the National > Library of > Wales website as having been proved at Bangor. But a few wills, > including > the one I am particularly interested in (Lewis Evans of Plasse Duon, > Llanwnog, 1636) does not seem to turn up no matter spelling variations I > try. Is there somewhere else a will from Llanwnog might have been > proved in > the 1630s? Roderick Ward > =================== > Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at: www.jlb2011.co.uk/powyslist.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POWYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >