The Surnames of Wales

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Canllaw ysgolheigaidd a darllenadwy i wreiddiau a hanes cyfenwau o Gymru, wedi ei seilio ar oes o waith ymchwil gan yr awduron, yn defnyddio dogfennau gwreiddiol gyda mapiau yn dangos dosbarthiad y cyfenwau. Cyfrol hanfodol ar gyfer haneswyr yng Nghymru.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

A readable and scholarly guide to the origins and history of Welsh surnames, based on a lifetime of research by the authors, using original documents with maps showing surname distribution. An essential volume for historians in Wales.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Sheila Rowlands FSG, MCG is a graduate in History of the University of Wales. She was the founder Director of residential courses in Welsh family history run for many summers at Aberystwyth University. A native of south Pembrokeshire, her personal research centres round the names, family and local history of that county. John Rowlands FSG has degrees in Civil Engineering and Transport Planning from the University of Wales and the University of Birmingham. Recently he has been awarded the degree of Master of Philosophy by Aberystwyth University for research into ‘Investment in Shipping: North Cardiganshire in the Nineteenth Century’. Jointly they were involved with family history organisations at both national and local levels for many years.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

First published in 1996, The Surnames of Wales has long been regarded an indispensable guide to this most fascinating of verbal and historical minefifields. This new updated and expanded edition seeks to dispel many of the myths which surround the subject and is illustrated by evidence taken from a survey involving more than 270,000 surnames found in parish records throughout Wales. In addition, it has been extended to cover given names, drawing upon examples recorded in ancient pedigrees and in more recent family history research. "Many talk about ‘keeping up with the Joneses’: this is the book which invites and entices you to get right back to their roots. Based upon a lifetime’s research, and using original documents, The Surnames of Wales is written with precision and clarity, with many tables and maps showing surname distribution, with helpful lists of most Welsh surnames and their likely places of origins. This is a sure-footed guide for the unwary through the seemingly-baffling labours of plotting the origins of rare and common surnames. It shows one how the famous Welsh patronymic system worked and how it continued to work in remote areas even into the mid-nineteenth century, and why the Welsh had such a small stock of surnames. But it also shows how the researcher can use this book to build up a theory of probability as to the likely original home of one’s name. It also, unusually, deals with the stock of given names of men and women. This book is a godsend to historians in Wales and indeed right across the world." Professor Prys Morgan