Jim Fisher's Genealogy and Family History Pages
Genealogy and Merioneth, Wales
This map shows where Merioneth is. Click on it to see a larger scale map of the county
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This page is devoted to the county of Merioneth, Wales, and covers the origin of its name, an outline of its history and geography, links to other web sites concerned with the county, genealogical resources relating to the county and the same types of information in more detail for those cities, towns and villages in the county in which I have a family history interest. In doing this, it is not my intention to duplicate unnecessarily, nor to compete with, web pages which already do some of those things, but to complement such pages and provide links to them, with appropriate description of what they have to offer.
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The GENUKI web pages are the best starting point for research into any area of UK, and Merioneth is no exception.
The UK Genealogy Interests Directory, a new and growing facility, has a page of surname interests in Merioneth.
The appropriate family history society for the county is Gwynedd Family History Society.
There is (free) mailing list for Merioneth researchers. To subscribe click on the appropriate link, which will send a subscribe message after asking for your email address Powys mailing list subscribe.
Unlike most rootsweb mailing lists, in the case of the Powis list you will receive a message asking you to confirm that you want to subscribe.
Looking4kin offers free membership of a chat room for Merionethshire researchers, as well as similar resources for other areas.
To appear in this section a town or village has to meet a number of criteria. First, it has to be of family history interest to me; in other words, one or more of my or my wife's ancestors lived there. Second, I must have, or have access to, the appropriate information to be able to set up the page. Third, I must have managed to find the time to do it. Finally, if I am aware that it has already been done by someone else, all that will be found here is a link to that other site.
However, for completeness sake, if the place meets the first criterion but fails on one or more of the others, then it will at least appear here as a heading, so the reader will have some idea which places may "get the treatment" at some time in the future.
This hamlet near Bala is the location of Rhiwaedog, which was a large mansion or small palace when my ancestors lived there. The site is now occupied by a 17th century farmhouse.
My interests in Merioneth start in the times of the Tudors and go back from there:
MEREDYDD
His son IEUAN ap MEREDYDD
ITHEL of Rhiwaedog
His son EINION of Rhiwaedog ("esquire to the body of John of Gaunt, 1395")
His daughter and heiress MARGARET
Her husband and son of Ieuan ap Meredydd MEREDYDD (of Rhiwaedog) ap IEUAN
His son JOHN ap MEREDYDD
His son MORRIS ap JOHN
His son ROBERT ap MORRIS of Parc, Llanfrothen
His son John ROBERTS of Parc and/or Vanner
His daughter Mary ROBERTS
The following has provided information which I have paraphrased on this page:
A. Room: Dictionary of British Place Names (1988), ISBN 1 85605 1775.
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