Author: Edwin PoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brecknockshire
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire
Author: Edwin PoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brecknockshire
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Welsh Lineage of John Lewis (1592-1657), Emigrant to Gloucester, Virginia
Author: Grace McLean MosesPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 080634542X
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Lewis Family of Warner Hall was perhaps the most influential family in Gloucester County, Virginia, during the colonial period. The subject of a widely respected family history by Merrow Edgerton Sorley, originally published in 1935 and reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Co., the Lewises of Warner Hall and their descendants have made notable contributions to Virginia and the nation. Since the original publication of Sorley's Lewis of Warner Hall, a debate has raged over the identity of the family's immigrant ancestor, whom Sorley presumed to be one ROBERT LEWIS of Wales. It was left to Mrs. Moses to show conclusively that Sorley was wrong and that the true immigrant ancestor of the Lewises of Warner Hall was JOHN LEWIS, who settled at Totopotomoys Creek in Gloucester County, Virginia on July l, 1653. In her vitally important little book The Welsh Lineage of John Lewis (1592-1657), originally published in 1984, Mrs. Moses traces back the Welsh side of the Lewis family for three generations in the vicinity of its ancestral home in Llangatock, Breconshire, and also resolves a number of issues surrounding the authenticity of the family coat-of-arms.
Bye-gones
Author: “A” Bibliography of British Municipal History
Author: Charles GrossPublisher: New York, London [etc.] : Longmans, Green & Company
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A Bibliography of British Municipal History, Including Gilds and Parliamentary Representation
Author: Charles GrossPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Jane Williams (Ysgafell)
Author: Gwyneth Tyson RobertsPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786835657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The first full account of the life and work of a nineteenth-century woman who carved out a unique career as an important writer in English on Welsh subjects. It is a major contribution to history of women’s writing in English. It is also a major contribution to knowledge of Welsh Writing in English in the nineteenth century.
The Normans in South Wales, 1070–1171
Author: Lynn H. NelsonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292781075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A frontier has been called "an area inviting entrance." For the Norman invaders of England the Welsh peninsula was such an area. Fertile forested lowlands invited agricultural occupation; a fierce but primitive and disunited native population was scarcely a formidable deterrent. In The Normans in South Wales, Lynn H. Nelson provides a comprehensive history of the century during which the Normans accomplished this occupation. Skillfully he combines facts and statistics gleaned from a variety of original sources—The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Domesday Book, Church records, charters of the kings and of the marcher lords, and more imaginative literary sources such as the chanson de geste and the frontier epic—to give a vivid picture of a century of strife. He describes the fluctuating conflict between Norman invaders in the lowlands and Welsh tribesmen in the highlands; the hard struggle of medieval frontiersmen to take from the new land a profit commensurate with their labors; the development of a Cambro-Norman society distinct and quite different from the Anglo-Norman culture which engendered it; and the attempt of the frontiersman to prevent the Anglo-Norman authorities from taking control of the lands he had won. The turbulent Welsh tribes provided an ever present harassment along the frontier, and Nelson begins his presentation with an account of the failure of the Saxons to control them. He examines the methods adopted by William the Conqueror to cope with the problem—the creation of the great marcher lordships and the subsequent problems in controlling these lordships—and the weakness of some Anglo-Norman kings and the strength of others. By 1171 the conquest of the Welsh frontier was complete; but as Nelson points out, this conquest was strangely limited. The frontier, which extended throughout the lowlands of Wales, stopped at the 600-foot contour line in the mountains. In his final chapter Nelson speculates upon the curious fact that large areas of seemingly inviting moorlands lying above this line remained closed to the Cambro-Norman, and his speculations lead him to some interesting inferences about the nature of the frontier's influence upon the civilization which moves in to occupy it.
Catalogue of the Reference Library of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Author: University of Exeter. Museum and LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
A-Z of Brecon
Author: Mal MorrisonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445692783
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
An engaging exploration of the Welsh town of Brecon, and its surrounding area, highlighting the heritage, people and places.
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