It might be of interest to know that many of the Powysland Club Mont. Colls are available on line. Try the following by cutting and pasting to your menu bar: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Powys-Land%20Club%22 Merry Christmas to All David Stick On 23 Dec 2010, at 09:15, John Ball wrote: > Dear Dennis, > > Good to hear from you again. > > Recently, I've been studying some of the 'Montgomeryshire Collections' > published by the Powysland Club looking for references to Griffiths families > in Llanidloes and Llandinam in the early 19th century. While reading an > article on Llanidloes in Volume 5 yesterday, I came across a reference to a > Mr Edmund Cleaton who built the 'Glyn Factory' circa 1838. Tha factory was: > "on the left bank of the Clywedog . . . on a piece of land leased from Mr > Mytton of Pen-y-lan. It has been enlarged on more than one occasion, and is > now [1878] one of the largest and most commodious mills in the > neighbourhood, fitted up with machinery for all purposes connected with the > manufacturing and finishing of flannel. A large fulling mill, and cottages > for the work people are attached. It now forms part of the Welsh Flannel and > Tweed Company." > There are several other references to Edmund Cleaton in the pages following > the above quote. He seems to have been an important man in Llanidloes in the > mis 19th century. > > I wondered if you know about this Edmund Cleaton, and whether he is a > relative of yours? > > The full citation for the above reference is: > "A Parochial Account of Llanidloes" (Chapter 2), by Edward Hamer, in > "Collections Historical and Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire - > Volume 5", published by the Powysland Club, London 1872; page 39 et seq. > > A full set of these early Montgomeryshire Collections is held by Newtown > Public Library and probably other libraries in Powys. The holdings of most > Welsh libraries can be searched online through Cat Cymru - > http://library.wales.org/catcymru/ > -----Quote------ > Cat Cymru (beta) brings together publicly accessible library catalogues from > all across Wales into a single search. By entering a term in the search box > you can choose to look for all kinds of material in any of the Public, > Higher Education or Further Education Libraries or libraries in a particular > region. > ----Unquote---- > > But note that the Cat Cymru service will not be available over the > Christmas/New Year period (from 24 December to 5 January). > > Kind regards and best wishes for Christmas, > > > 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/ > Brecknock FH Group Webmaster: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wlsbfhs/ > Joint Administrator - Powys (& BRE/MGY/RAD) RootsWeb mailing lists > > > =================== > Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at: www.jlb2005.plus.com/powyslist.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