tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post3942685044035232037..comments2024-03-29T02:00:39.547-07:00Comments on travelthroughhistory: A VISIT TO ‘MY’ CASTLE, CAERPHILLY WALESWynn Bextonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08606284153866696343noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-19576704021489330322020-03-03T04:35:36.850-08:002020-03-03T04:35:36.850-08:00Wow, those women really had to struggle a lot to s...Wow, those women really had to struggle a lot to survive in those times.<br /><a href="https://www.smarttraveldeals.co.uk/car-parking-manchester" rel="nofollow">Manchester park and ride</a><br /><a href="https://www.smarttraveldeals.co.uk/car-parking-manchester" rel="nofollow">cheap park and ride Manchester</a>Suzan Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00607768514512938978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-35818255676579862202019-01-01T04:58:23.524-08:002019-01-01T04:58:23.524-08:00This castle looks like a location which is used fo...This castle looks like a location which is used for shooting in "Game of Thrones". Wonderful post with amazing historical castle pictures. Great! <a href="https://www.bestparkandflydeals.com/car-parking-jfk" rel="nofollow">jfk short term parking deals</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01575105560533983395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-29345302278561981522017-06-22T02:29:38.184-07:002017-06-22T02:29:38.184-07:00These old structures are really amazing.
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Keep sharing more post like this.<br /><a href="http://magiclamptoursmorocco.blogspot.com/2016/07/why-is-morocco-best-option.html" rel="nofollow">best morocco tour operator</a><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-19025992273165495402015-11-14T23:41:05.895-08:002015-11-14T23:41:05.895-08:00:-) It was Janet Jones that introduced me to the C...:-) It was Janet Jones that introduced me to the Caerphilly folk. I gave her the rest of our family and the Howells and she gave me Ernest Jones, her connection was to Roselia Wide his wife. I will write again via email, as I might use up all the comment space. Will be visiting Caerphilly next year :-) Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509623326006880831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-32092847615302166682015-11-14T21:07:54.682-08:002015-11-14T21:07:54.682-08:00Oh my gosh! Yes I spent an afternoon with Nicola a...Oh my gosh! Yes I spent an afternoon with Nicola and was just going to post something about the old manor house we visited. Every time I go to Caerphilly we have a cousins get-together. A few years ago when Janet Jones, the family geneologist was alive, we had a cousins reunion and there were a lot of us. My sister and her daughter came with me that time. Our family name was FILER and my grandparents lived on Windsor St. in Caerphilly (where my dad was born). Dad left Wales in the very early 30's after he lost his mining card as he refused to speak against the men in the mines (during the strikes). He then immigrated to Canada and later was asked to speak about the mines but he loved also to speak on more spiritual things so he was invited to McMaster Theology college and became a Baptist minister and sent to the prairies in Saskachewan to work in the mining communities. There are lots of relatives distant and close on Facebook, many of them in the States as great-grandpa and his brothers went there to work in the mines too. He went back to Wales and was killed but they stayed.So there is now a huge American connection of Filer relatives all related through great-grandparents.<br />Did you see my website www.ruthkozak.com or you can reach me by email at <br />ruthaki1@shaw.ca<br />wynn bextonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01427018401452709991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-21296950568711053932015-11-14T20:29:23.977-08:002015-11-14T20:29:23.977-08:00One more comment I checked out your Facebook and l...One more comment I checked out your Facebook and lo and behold find my cousins names as your friends. LOL I have been talking to Nina Oxford (nee Jones) and husband Glenn also Nicola Johns (nee Jones) and their grandfather and great grandfather was the (John) Ernest Jones I mentioned. His son was Ernest Jones with wife Phyllis Birch (Nina and Audrie's Mum). Are they also your cousins? What a little tiny world sometimes :-)<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509623326006880831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-80892084552899305912015-11-14T20:06:54.431-08:002015-11-14T20:06:54.431-08:00I have just heard you speak on a video about your ...I have just heard you speak on a video about your last book; wonderful. Will seek it out. :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509623326006880831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-13828452377767717052015-11-14T20:00:27.910-08:002015-11-14T20:00:27.910-08:00I actually live in New Zealand but have a deep con...I actually live in New Zealand but have a deep connection to Wales because of my grandfather Stanley Morgan Jones, his mother was Elizabeth Howells and when she died at 40 in Dowlais Merthyr Tydfil; great grandfather John Jones moved to Caerphilly and raised the 8 children eventually married again to Caroline. Elizabeths people worked in the mines of Merthyr Tydfil and in the Senghenydd mine. Later I know great Uncle Ernest Jones worked and lived in Senghenydd. He was there but was not in the mine on October 14 1913 when disaster struck. Apparently it affected him badly. Hard times in the mines in South Wales. My cousins in Caerphilly and Merthyr originated from the Jones and Howells line. I am sure our ancestors would have crossed paths (or mine shafts! I have visited Wales including these areas and have met quite a few cousins although next year I will be back in Caerphilly to meet a few more. What was your family name?<br /><br />Your new novel sounds very exciting so much material in Welsh history. Keep in touch and let me know how you are progressing. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509623326006880831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-4893431325926100062015-11-14T12:53:08.108-08:002015-11-14T12:53:08.108-08:00Where do you live? My dads family were mostly mine...Where do you live? My dads family were mostly miners (including dad from age 14). My great grandad died in the mine at Senghenydd in 1903. I love Wales! The new novel I'm working on is about a Brythonic (Welsh) Celtic girl who is kidnapped by a renegade chieftain and ends up at the border of Macedonia being rescued by a young hunter who is Alexander (the Great). I am making the Celtic/Greek connection.wynn bextonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01427018401452709991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-29516557355151206992015-11-14T11:24:23.242-08:002015-11-14T11:24:23.242-08:00Bore da Wynn, you are welcome. What an interesting...Bore da Wynn, you are welcome. What an interesting life you lead and obviously creative will certainly seek your writings. Caerphilly is charming and my grandfather's playground as a child. I have quite a few cousins also in Caerphilly. By the way you have great taste in music. All the best :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509623326006880831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-43798524823524762062015-11-14T09:48:51.184-08:002015-11-14T09:48:51.184-08:00Hello Bronwyn, thanks for the correction. When I w...Hello Bronwyn, thanks for the correction. When I was reading the notes I mis-read . Will correct that. I have cousins and distant relatives who live in or near Caerphilly so I go there often. Lovely town. And I just love going into the castle. wynn bextonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01427018401452709991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12928238.post-73344624497131943932015-11-14T04:25:40.543-08:002015-11-14T04:25:40.543-08:00Great photos of this great castle in Caerphilly, h...Great photos of this great castle in Caerphilly, home of my grandfather. De Clare was actually an English noble born in England, not a Welsh chieftain; the castle was built to protect the land against the Welsh. What is fabulous is that in the end Caerphilly has the castle and it is now absolutely Welsh. :-) Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509623326006880831noreply@blogger.com