Welsh Farmers & Their Animals | Genealogy
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Welsh History can't be told without mentioning how farming and livestock impacted our ancestors' lives.
JOIN THE FREE EMAIL NEWSLETTER: genealcymru.su...
SUPPORT US ON PATREON: / genealcymru
JOIN US ON FACEBOOK: / genealcymru
Doing your family history research (Affiliate Links)?
Get a Find My Past FREE Trial: tidd.ly/3QmPMrk
Get a Find My Past Subscription: tidd.ly/3fxH2kT
Image Copyright Information:
docs.google.co...
What kinds of animals were a part of your ancestors' lives?
One branch of my ancestors were drovers, buying cattle and sheep and taking them to markets in England. They had to be freeholders to be drovers so that they could obtain credit to buy livestock. Some of them became rich with my 4 x great grandfather’s will not only mentioning his farm but a number of houses in the town of Tregaron.
It’s also an interesting point about shows. I’ve found newspaper articles mentioning ancestors showing their cattle or horses at various shows. In one I even found a great grandfather on my dad’s side competing against a great grandfather on my mother’s side in the same class.
Very interesting! Tregaron was a very important place for drovers. I was reading an article recently about how the drovers in Cardiganshire were the founders of a bunch of banks because of just how much money they'd suddenly have and have to protect after selling their livestock.
My Taid Waun Hir had a small holding, everything had to earn it's keep, but his passion was Welsh cobs,he had a stallion called Seren ⭐,that horse wanted to kill everything, but with Taid he was like a puppy.
Very cool. When I took horseback riding lessons when I was little, they had me ride a horse like that. They weren't like a puppy with me though. They liked to charge at the other little kids on horses and make them cry!
My great grandfathers on my dad's side was a welsh man originally from Wales, but at some point, they came to Canada and owned a pig farm.
Very cool. I was just reading yesterday about pig farming in Wales. Apparently in South Wales they used to raise them up and then take them out to Bristol to sell. I wonder if they kept a lot of pigs while in Wales too? My ancestors who kept livestock usually only had one pig when they mentioned them in their wills.
Very enjoyable as ever. My great grandfather William Williams! of Henllan, Denbigh is listed in the 1891 census as dairy farmer and magistrate and seems to have employed 4 men to run the farm so it must have been sizeable. I presume Henllan and Denbigh were his main markets. And one of his employees, Clifford Owen married his daughter Jane. About 6 months before my aunt Mildred was born. That may be why they moved to Birkenhead where eventually I was born. There were so many Welsh who, about that time, moved there and nearby Liverpool that they have their own Welsh names; Penbedw and Lerpwl.
Glad you enjoyed! I've haven't looked much into dairy farmers, but I've been reading recently about cattle drovers as I come across more and more of them in my research. They did a lot of interesting travel and often to those places in England that have Welsh names like you said. Thanks for sharing your story :D
Another very interesting video! Thanks! I love how you have so many ideas to get to know who our ancestors were, instead of just having a name.
Thanks! Yeah it's good to find new ways to tell them as full people :)
Informative and enlightening in understanding the importance of embodied rhythms to our understanding of history and humanity. Great piece!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. And I'm glad I was able to convey embodiment without using the word! That was one of the goals :)
My maiden name is Cowart from Cowherd. I suppose this family kept cows, lol.
Cowart/ Cowherd is an ancient name. I had always thought Cowart was a peasant name. Now I know it was not a peasant name . They came to America in Colonial period. I have no idea what part of Wales they came from.
Very cool. That's not a name I've heard of before. I wonder how long ago it was that they kept cows. I didn't get into the topic of cattle in the video, but it's really interesting because they had to travel so much. The cattle drovers would take the herds from West Wales to pasture in England and then bring them back again. Really cool stuff.
WOW, thank you. Wondering the implications of that ...
I hope they were indeed Welch, not English.
Are you from Canada dude?
Why do you ask?
@@GenealCymru I was just curious cause of your pronunciation of "about" 😅
Aaa yes a-boat :P Yeah I have a Canadian accent. I get this comment often and it always reads as an accusation for some reason haha. "You're a CANADIAN! My word!" I think it's just that a lot of my viewers are from the States so it sticks out.