Does anyone know where Yard Row, Llansamlet was in the mid 1850s. I suspect that it might have been one of the rows of houses on what is now Peniel Green Road. Thanks in advance, Wendy

Using the description of the enumeration district 1851 CENSUS OF CEFN-Y-GARTH. REF.H.O.107/2464, E.D.2., which has Yard Row at the end, and comparing it with a 1970s street map of Swansea,and a 19th-century map with some extra farm names, I would say that the North side of Peniel Green Road, between the junction with Church Road and the junction with Gwernllwynchyth Road would be about right. It was a row of 8 houses. All the occupants were headed by men aged 40 to early 50s, apart from the second one in from the eastern end, which held a grocer aged 34. Carpenter, Blacksmith, two Engineers, a Collier, an Underground overman and a shoeing smith. Judging by two families where the last child was born in Llansamlet and previous ones in Llangyfelach, and assuming these families moved into new houses, they were built about 1844-45. However, that may be an unsafe assumption. In the 1841 census two of the same families are living in a row of eight houses in roughly the same place on the same enumeration district, called Felin-Newydd, which came after a tollgate-house called Bridge Gate. This was enumeration district 72, 'Llansamlet Higher'. In both years, Llansamlet was enumerated with Neath rather than Swansea You probably know that the Glamorgan Family History Society have 1841 and 1851 census transcriptions available on CDs at very reasonable price, see www.glamfhs.org.uk Jeff GlamFHS 1287 ----- Original Message ----- From: "DAVIES WENDY." <Wendy.Davies@swansea.ac.uk> To: <WLS-SWANSEA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:51 AM Subject: [Swansea] Yard Row, Llansamlet > Does anyone know where Yard Row, Llansamlet was in the mid 1850s. I suspect > that it might have been one of the rows of houses on what is now Peniel > Green Road. > Thanks in advance, > Wendy >