Hello listers, Happy Easter! I am so grateful that Rootsweb has seen fit to establish mailing lists for individual counties in Wales. Thank you, Rootsweb, for giving us Pembrokeshire-L and to Gareth for his great job in administering the list! A couple years ago I tried the DYFED-L for a while - it was a yeoman's task to attempt to coordinate names and places with my old letters from Pembrokeshire, sorting through areas not connected and with similar surnames, probably, again, not connected. I've having better luck now, zeroing in on some items specific to Pembrokeshire. Here are few details firmly connecting the PARSELL, GEORGE, and POWELL families. In a letter dated Nov 8, 1915 from a Sarah GEORGE to my greatgrandmother Hannah PARSELL POWELL of Pennsylvania Sarah signs the letter as "niece" and requests that mail be sent to: Mrs. A. T. George Bellvue House 23 Park st. Pembroke Dock, Sth Wales Sarah states that her aunt Hannah PARSELL POWELL was born May 31, 1837, Hannah's sister Charlotte was 5 yrs. and 5 months older, and that their father, George PARSELL, had died Oct. 14, 1836. Sarsh identifies herself as a daughter of Charlotte PARSELL, states her father (Sarah's) died 18 years earlier, she has a brother, Jack, and a younger sister, Beatrice, who lives at home and cares for the bedridden mother, Charlotte. Sarah speaks of the recent death of her Uncle George in Saundersfoot who was only ill a week - they could not attend his funeral because the train on Sunday only ran as far as Tenby. They went the next week and found that Polly had been home there from South Africa for 12 months for the benefit of her little daughter's health, but Polly felt she could not return to her husband in South Africa owing to the submarines in the water. Sarah GEORGE mentions another relative named Bessie (daughter of a Hannah - maybe a daughter of the deceased George PARSELL?). Sarah then continues that the Zeppelins have not come near them since they are too far from the North East Coast. Another letter, dated Jan. 3, 1911 - Sarah writes that her Cousin Sarah had taken the same old name that she had discarded, THOMAS. She writes of Lottie and her husband having come home over Xmas from Scotland. Sarsh states that Uncle George PARSELL belongs to the Independent or Congregationalist while the rest of them are all Baptists. Sarah's husband, Alfred, is the Finance Director of the Eisteddfod, her brother is the musical Director and the Choirmaster in their Chapel. He was organist for ten years, then Lottie (sister?) took over the playing. Sarah mentions another brother, Willie, and a sister Annie. She signs off as S. J. George. In an later letter from the same address, dated Jan. 26, 1911, Sarah identifies her husband as being named Alfred, that her Uncle George still lives in the same house as when Hannah PARSELL POWELL left, Bessie is married to Bertie BEDDOE, one of a family of butchers in the village, they moved into Uncle George's old home to care for him. There is a young George, a son, who had a leg problem when young - his mother allowed the splints to be removed and the boy's leg failed to develop normally - he walks with a crutch and is a shoemaker or cobbler by trade. Hope this information is of use to some of our fellow listers! I seem to remember someone posting a query lately about a shoemaker named POWELL. Good luck, Elida in South Carolina, USA