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Can you picture the scene? A Welshman, driving his car across the border in England, he's stopped by the police patrol for exceeding the speed limit.
Police Officer: "Good morning Sir, where are you heading?" "To London," "and where have you come from?" "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch." Police officer puts his pen and notepad away. "On your way Sir, and don't let me catch you speeding again!"
 
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Can you picture the scene? A Welshman, driving his car across the border in England, he's stopped by the police patrol for exceeding the speed limit.
Police Officer: "Good morning Sir, where are you heading?" "To London," "and where have you come from?" "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch." Police officer puts his pen and notepad away. "On your way Sir, and don't let me catch you speeding again!"
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My great grandmother was born in Myther tidwell---Anna Price and married a man there named Thomas Thomas. They had 2 girls and the next record I get is Anna, her girls and her mother arriving in the US

Here is a pic of some of the relatives from one line

Margaret White Thomas Hoke
 
January said:
my husband was born in Wales. Came to Australia when he was 7 years old.
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Somewhere in my ancestry is a woman whose maiden name was Jones. When I was in 2nd year high school a class mate showed the class photo to her mother and she recognised my surname which is not Jones. It is an old English surname.

Coincidentally, my classmate's surname was Jones, first name Bronwyn. Some sort of cousin.
 
Amazing something I posted over three years ago has popped up.
I’d forgotten about it.

Fairly certain I found what I posted on Pinterest.
Lots of Welsh names or places on the post.
Llynn and Bronwen definitely Welsh names
i assume Merthyr Tydfil is where you are referring to Dusty.
And ,of course,lots of Jones’ about..
And not unusual-but less so these days-for someone to have the same Christian and surnames.
My head of History in University was Evan Evans.
And ,being able to speak Welsh,I can say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
I may have old post about it on here but anyway this is what you need
 
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The word 'Welsh' is said to mean 'foreigner'. Why did the Saxons regard the Celts as foreigners, do you know? After the last ice age, people from Europe settled in this country. I wonder if the country was then invaded by people from the Middle East, and this explains it? We still know so little about this country's history. I bought a book on Wales but it doesn't mention the distant past.
 
Lavinia said:
The word 'Welsh' is said to mean 'foreigner'. Why did the Saxons regard the Celts as foreigners, do you know? After the last ice age, people from Europe settled in this country. I wonder if the country was then invaded by people from the Middle East, and this explains it? We still know so little about this country's history. I bought a book on Wales but it doesn't mention the distant past.
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I’ll have to do some digging but I’m pretty certain we weren’t invaded from the Middle East.
We were much bigger..much of Western and north western England was once a part of Wales-reflected by place names that still exist.
What is now Wales was certainly occupied in Pre history (lots of Iron Age Hill Forts about),the Romans were here and all the Norman Castles tell their own stories.

This is interesting


https://jconradfantasy.com/who-welsh-descended-from/
 
The picture I tried to load wont co-operate. But since I never tried to go back to Wales to figure out my ggm's heritage, this put me off on a trip into her and my ggf's past. Now I am having fun trying to sort out family stories and the truth. Wish me luck!
 
My family name is Welsh, with ancestry from Denbighshire -- old Denbighshire, not the newer one.

Denbighshire means “the county of the little fort.”
 

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