Welsh? Anyone?

I`m not Welsh, but think that Anglesey and Snowdonia are beautiful areas. We`ve holiday`d around there several times.

I'm half Welsh, my father was born in Pen y Groes, just outside Caernarvon, and we holidayed every year for the whole of August in Trearddur Bay in Anglesey. I live in Cheshire now.

Not so far from the border then Ceesnan.

No, we're close enough to be able to go for a picnic on Big Bay in good weather, makes a nice day out.

I moved to Wales o re twenty years ago and then met and married a Welshman. The downside is it gets VERY noisy when there is a rugby match on even when he is watching on his own! I have lived in Cardiff - very cosmopolitan I found - and then around Bridgend. When we go back to UK we stay with family in Cardiff.
If you visit Cardiff be sure to go to St Fagan's - the Museum of Welsh life - free to get in and with lots of interesting buildings which have been taken down from various parts of Wales and reconstructed within a huge park. They have a working bakery and sometimes a blacksmith etc.

I am welsh and I now live less than 20 miles from where I lived as a child. Unfortunately that means I now live 150 miles away from my daughters and grand-daughters so every time we see each other it,s a weekend stay (no hardship there!) I don,t speak welsh as I live quite near the border but I sing the welsh national anthem with gusto on rugby days and my youngest daughter is a fanatical rugby supporter. Hearing the anthem makes me want to cry!

West and North Wales are predominantly welsh speaking as a first language. I also recommend St Fagans it,s brilliant. They show houses as they would have looked in welsh culture through the different decades. We also have good free museums and steam railways and Cardiff bay is great for restaurants and Techniquest for children, interactive science.Come and visit you,ll get a warm welcome.

I am not Welsh, but my husband is . He was born in New Tredegar, South Wales. Whenever the Welsh rugby team play, he gets the hunting out and puts it all over the gates and front walls. If they win it stays up for a day or two, ad they lose, it gets removed under cover of darkness infill the next time.After 60 years living in Stoke on Trent, he is still very much a Welsh man.

I'm Welsh, born and bred in Newport, but now living just outside Liverpool. So now I'm a 'Squelch' - a Scouse/Welsh hybrid.

My great grandma was Welsh and I've been learning Welsh on and off - more off than on unfortunately. I love Wales and just recently have been spending a fair bit of time in Cardiff though haven't had time to explore the museums and galleries; something that I must rectify! I do enjoy watching Pobol y Cym - with subtitles! Beats Coronation Street and Emmerdale hands down in my opinion. Everyone is related to the person next to them it seems and misery of one sort or another abounds! Marvellous stuff

* Knowsley* Never heard of a Squelch only the saying that a true Scouser is one third Welsh, one third Irish and a third catarrh.

I am half Welsh my Dad was born in Denbighshire, my grandparents both spoke Welsh.

My DH is also half Welsh, his mother is from Pembrokeshire (little England beyond Wales) she doesn't speak Welsh and is proud of it . She is a genuine Welsh Dragon

My father was born and grew up in South Wales, Abertillery.

I used to love our yearly visits when I was a child. So different to the Midlands street where we lived. Sheep wandering along the High Street, a brooke babbling downhill at the end of the road, lots of green. And I still love the accent.

On the downside, coal dust everywhere.

Dad came up to the Midlands when he was 16 to do an apprenticeship as an alternative to going down the pits.

I am Welsh, born in Wales, still live here. Have a great interest in Welsh social history and have been transcribing BMD on Angelsey for several years .

Born in Aberfan, South Wales, now live in Mid Wales. My younger daughter has moved to Lincolnshire, asked me to move there too and sent loads of photographs, a lovely county but to live with no mountains ? Nop

Croeso Anniebach. I was born and brought up in Anglesey AND have been tracing my ancestors ( around the Ty-Croes/Llangwyfan areas) found a family grave in the lovely Llangwyfan church cemetary.
I miss the mountains (views of Snowdonia), the beaches and the pace of life!

Oldgreymare. I love Angelsey . Hope you have had success with tracing your ancestors , I may have transcribed them for you to find, hope so.

Anniebach, off up there next month, will do some more work, surname is Williams so how easy is that???? Ido have names and addresses to about 1840 (my father's grandfather was a millar and the mill has recently been converted to a spectacular holiday let!)
Thanks for the transcribing.

Oldgreymare, I have marriage records going back to 1813, they only give names of bride and groom and parish where marriages took place , I also have all marriages and births from 1837, if you need a look up please ask

Anniebach many thanks, I'll p m you in the next few days.

Another good place to visit if you are in South Wales is Big Pit - it is just off the M4 near to Carleon - it is a real pit (unlike Rhondda Heritage one) and you go down in a cage and walk along through a mine. When we went an ex- miner was our guide. You have remove all watches and leave cameras etc (things with batteries) in a locked place at the top because of spark risk.
I too agree about the Bay Area being SOO good and you can walk across the barrage or go in a boat to Penarth. The BBC studios are down there too and there is a big Dr Who Experience which some members of the family tell me is great!

I was born in Wales but came away when I was a month old so nobody can tell I am Welsh.
People say I am not from the Midlands or London where I spent a substantial portion of my life.
The most logical guess somebody has made without knowing me is Northampton or Luton.
I suppose they are between London and Birmingham.

Frank

Bored tonight, Frank?

Tech! I really thnk we should have a YAWN emoticon.

Fascinating Frank