very interesting. Thanks for including a link for your article about ffridd. I was looking for it a while back, because I thought my daughter might be interested but couldn't find it anywhere at the time. She's doing a PhD on the ruined cottages that scatter the hills above us and over into the Eigiau and Cowlyd valleys. Many of them, but not all, would have been mining settlements. I'm not sure if it would be relevant or not but much of what she's trying to do is to piece together the lives of the people who lived there and many of the wills include reference to cattle and other livestock
Thanks Louise. Your daughter’s work sounds fascinating and I would be very interested to hear about livestock numbers and the like. I got a lot of detail such as the names and the numbers of people living in each tyddyn from the first census in the 1800’s. Looking at later census’ meant I could see the changes. The information was online too, so easy to access.
she's getting most of her information from wills which are very interesting but it's a time consuming process. She's doing it part time over 6 years so it will be a while before it's published. I'll let her know that you're interested
very interesting. Thanks for including a link for your article about ffridd. I was looking for it a while back, because I thought my daughter might be interested but couldn't find it anywhere at the time. She's doing a PhD on the ruined cottages that scatter the hills above us and over into the Eigiau and Cowlyd valleys. Many of them, but not all, would have been mining settlements. I'm not sure if it would be relevant or not but much of what she's trying to do is to piece together the lives of the people who lived there and many of the wills include reference to cattle and other livestock
Thanks Louise. Your daughter’s work sounds fascinating and I would be very interested to hear about livestock numbers and the like. I got a lot of detail such as the names and the numbers of people living in each tyddyn from the first census in the 1800’s. Looking at later census’ meant I could see the changes. The information was online too, so easy to access.
she's getting most of her information from wills which are very interesting but it's a time consuming process. She's doing it part time over 6 years so it will be a while before it's published. I'll let her know that you're interested