If anyone can help I have the email address.
Does anyone know where Porthyrhyd Cottage is/used to be? According to the 1851 census my 5x great grandfather Benjamin Thomas a retired farmer was living there. There were also two other families recorded as residing at Porthyrhyd Cottage in that same census. Namely William Williams and family (a shoemaker) and John Jones & family (an agricultural labourer).
Benjamin had previously resided at Bryn, a farm which I know still exists today.
Benjamin had previously resided at Bryn, a farm which I know still exists today.
Porthyrhyd is quite a common place name round here. The nearest is just a few miles from Cilycwm. A possible might be the old house now lived in by the Jones’ shown in this picture:
http://carmants.org.uk/centenarydinner.html