Happy St. David's Day to all of you with Welsh ancestry!

[CTyankee]

I share the Welsh ancestry of my father with the Scottish ancestry of my mother.

[frogmarch]

1. My 9th great-grandmother

was Welsh (born in 1602), but as far as I know, she was my only Welsh ancestor. She married an Englishman, and they emigrated to New England in around 1630.

Now to find out what St.David's Day is all about.

You have a happy one too!

[CTyankee]

3. It used to be Welsh people wore leeks on their jackets in observance of the day.

Now they use daffodils.

[geardaddy]

7. The wearing of the leek stems from a story

about a king and his men in battle against the Saxons finding themselves in a muddy leek field. As a way to distinguish his soldiers from the enemy, he had his men put leeks in their hats.

The daffodil/leek thing is because the name in Welsh is quite similar (leek=cenhinen, daffodil=cenhinen Bedr [Peter's leek])

[geardaddy]

2. Diolch yn fawr!

Thanks a lot.

My grandmother was first generation Welsh from Port Talbot.

[CTyankee]

4. my maiden name is williams. You can't get much more welsh than that...

[geardaddy]

5. That's pretty damn Welsh.

My grandmother was an Evans. That's pretty Welsh too.

[CTyankee]

6. I'm wondering about the Hardy's. Also in the family (Welsh side).

[geardaddy]

8. Hardy's an Irish name I believe.

[CTyankee]

9. I don't think there are any Irish in my family...

at least not from the original ancestors. My Scot ancestor came over following the Clearances in Scotland in 1790, the Welsh one in the 19th century (not sure when).

Do you have your Welsh ancestry researched? If so, how?

[geardaddy]

10. I just know back to about the middle of the nineteen century.

My grandmother to her parent and my g-grandfather's parents. They came from Port Talbot and the South Wales Valleys.

[geardaddy]

11. Maybe Hardy's English

it's definitely not a typical Welsh name.

[CTyankee]

13. I'm thinking of Thomas Hardy, the writer and poet.

Don't know his provenance but he's listed with the great Brit writers...

I'm fascinated by my Welsh ancestors and what life in Wales was like and why they left. Was there one big event, like the Scottish Clearances, that made them leave?

[geardaddy]

14. No, I think that the coal mines in America seemed more profitable

or something.

[CTyankee]

15. My Williams's seemed to migrate south. My Rev. great grandfather (with the Hardy middle name)

pioneered Baptist churches in Oklahoma and Arkansas before settling in Texas.

[ohiosmith]

12. Thanks CTy.

Mother: Welsh/Irish
Father: Irish/German

[geardaddy]

17. Tidy!

[frogmarch]

16. Wow, because of this thread,

I did some checking, and I learned that my 9th great-grandfather, like his wife, my 9th great-grandmother, was Welsh. I'd thought he, William Allen, was English.

Wow, thanks!

Ales Alice Whytmore
Gender Female
Born 1602 at Allen Hall, Stratford, Wales
Married William Allen 1620
Died September 29, 1641 at
Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts (39 years old)

William Allen was born 1602 in Allen Hall, Stratford, St Hulme, Wales, and died May 10, 1679 in Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

[limpyhobbler]

18. I'm 1/16 Welsh

I had one great great grandfather born in Swansea, Wales.