Clicking on box 44, this is what popped up on the right. |
A home for descendants of John Vaughan, christened 6 March 1789 at St. Mary's, Hay, Breconshire, and Elinor Jenkins, born 25 December 1789 at Stowe Farm, Whitney, Herefordshire.
Hay view from Castle
Monday, February 15, 2016
How the Tithing Map Indexing is Going
We have already shared some work from crowd-sourcing or indexing the Tithing maps of Wales (1840s) for the National Library of Wales (here, here, and here). I just discovered that there are some parishes with the parcels now "clickable" to find who owned and occupied the place including Tract No. 44 in Llanfoist Village:
The Cynefin system is very different from FamilySearch.org indexing. One nice thing is that they list the names of the volunteers:
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Honing in on William Vaughan (1768) and Fir Tree Cottage (1798-1851)
Fir Tree Cottage, home of William Vaughan (1768) and likely John Vaughan (1789) |
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