tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post2318671125138236069..comments2023-10-28T08:41:58.349+01:00Comments on Codlins and Cream: Was Merlin a local lad made good?Bovey Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05798594086901897654noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-63619167943592351392009-01-25T16:47:00.000+00:002009-01-25T16:47:00.000+00:00Minion - by all means. I can lift it out of any c...Minion - by all means. I can lift it out of any comment you send to post before I press publish, so it won''t go global! I don't subscribe to the US SSDI - just got the bare bones of what appear's to be my cousin's death in Sacramento (the last address we had for her too).Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05798594086901897654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-90317299938039276082009-01-25T00:12:00.000+00:002009-01-25T00:12:00.000+00:00I'm assuming you have the US SSDI in your ancestry...I'm assuming you have the US SSDI in your ancestry subscription so that you could research the death of your relative[?] I would be glad to do that for you, if you don't have it. I'm not sure if you have access to better census idexes for UK than my ancestry offers. With only "England" as a birthplace designation I feel that I'm blundering about in a genealogical swamp. Should I be sending you my e-mail address? I'm cluttering the comments a bit.Morning's Minionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01912356455981434029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-61495640263339922662009-01-24T14:49:00.000+00:002009-01-24T14:49:00.000+00:00This was very interesting. I know very little abou...This was very interesting. I know very little about the history and legends of Merlin, though I know a little of Arthurian legend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-34773991728202877522009-01-24T08:31:00.000+00:002009-01-24T08:31:00.000+00:00Exactly how KCH makes use of Merlin and the Arthur...Exactly how KCH makes use of Merlin and the Arthurian legends. I'll add the ISBNs for you when I have been out to the shed where we keep our overflow of books. Thanks for the fascinating insight into your beautiful part of the world. Ann.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-23541430982128616592009-01-24T07:48:00.000+00:002009-01-24T07:48:00.000+00:00Minion - how frustrating it must be to try and fil...Minion - how frustrating it must be to try and fill in the gaps in the ancestry and get back to WHERE they came from, where they lived when they moved about America. I've actually been searching the American deaths - recent ones - as my cousin stopped writing and my aunties couldn't contact her on the phone. I think I have found her death (98% certain in fact) back in 2004. Her brother didn't even bother to let any of us here in the UK know. If I can do any ground-work for you here on family history, I'd be glad to. <BR/><BR/>As for a local history society - I did try to start one, but being English is a distinct disadvantage here at times, and I fell foul of a rabid Welshman who had no time for us incomers, and when I started having panic attacks I cut my losses . . .<BR/><BR/>Somerset Child - I can still remember the first time we drove up the A40 towards Llandeilo when we moved here 21 years ago. Dryslywn Castle thrilled me, and Paxton's Tower, high on the hill, and then finding the line of command from Dryslwyn, through Dinefwr to Carreg Cennen, on its limestone crag.<BR/><BR/>I will have to seek out the Kevin Crossley-Holland novels. I was taught Paleography by a Nichole Crossley-Holland at (Lampeter) University. She must be related. . .<BR/><BR/>I would love to think that Merlin was a real person, but something I read recently made a lot of sense - that he is in fact a "modern" representation of the Druidic roots of this country. Not one person, but an amalgam of what they represented, what they were capable of, and kept alive so the memory of their powers would NEVER die.Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05798594086901897654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-22702975630657712792009-01-23T21:19:00.000+00:002009-01-23T21:19:00.000+00:00What a wonderful post and about one of my favourit...What a wonderful post and about one of my favourite subjects. I have driven along the A40 past the places you mention and managed to take a snapshot or two from the motorhome on our way to and from Haverfordwest. Weren't able to stop and explore, but it had me re-reading Mat Stewart's novels again. <BR/><BR/>To me it is amazing how legend inspires new writers and through historic novels can bring new readers to want to learn more of a place. Do you know Kevin Crossley Holland's Arthur trilogy, set on the Shropshire-Welsh border at the time of the crusades, with flashbacks to legend?. Intended for teenagers, but beautiful and very clever.<BR/><BR/>Sorry I've gone on a bit. Your photos are so evocative. I have a Merlin poem I wrote whilst driving this route (husband driving actually) and it is going into the little journal already part-made as a result of my last visit. AnnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3639892272013528432.post-61769921794509281292009-01-23T17:16:00.000+00:002009-01-23T17:16:00.000+00:00Your recent series of posts on the history and nat...Your recent series of posts on the history and natural features of your area are so interesting and well written, it seems to me they should be compiled into a booklet for your local historical society.<BR/>I enjoy the entries re your crafting and your animals as well.<BR/>You inspired me to more hours of searching for the g-g-grandparents and their neighbors. Still no results in UK, Canada or US census or in immigration-ships passenger rolls. Its not diffcult to imagine several likely possibilites when we work with sparse data that is more than 150 years old. When families may have made several moves before "settling" they could so easily fall between the cracks of the census.<BR/>You asked me previously about US birth and death certificates. The state of New York where many of my mother's people lived, didn't require vital statistic data to be filed until the late 1880's and then, with home births and deaths, it was often sketchy or simply not filed. Pulbished obits didn't include a woman's maiden name--most often in neighborhood news items she was referred to only as "Mrs.E.S. Ross"--for instance. I would need to know that was the name of my g-grandmother. <BR/>I'm never sure what compels me to keep searching. [The alternative might be to spend the time in sorting this mess of books, papers, fabrics, notebooks, unfinished projects.]Morning's Minionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01912356455981434029noreply@blogger.com