Transcription help.

[Chimp]

Can anyone make out what the word before Beguildy is, It's from a death certificate ?


Sixteenth
July 1918
??????
Beguildy
Radnor
Knighton R.D.

The burial record seems to have the same place of abode.

 

[Jellylegs]

It looks like Travel, but I doubt very much it is. On the burial record, to the left in the margin, it says Inquest. I wonder if that relates to this record or the one on the previous page? Have you had a look in the newspapers?

 

[Chimp]

Yes @AnnB kindly looked for me, but nothing turned up. There was an inquest as the boy was only 8 years old.

 

[Chimp]

 

[MollyMay]

Could it mean Traveller?

 

[Chimp]

No, they were house based. The surname is Gravenor.

 

[Libby]

I wondered about Yravel, but can’t find any reference to it.

 

[Chimp]

As it is on the English-Welsh border there is a lot of strange place names.

 

[AnnB]

I’ve had a quick look at the burial entries around the time of little Leonard’s burial and am amazed at the variety of place names recorded. I can’t immediately see another entry which looks remotely like ‘Travel’, but maybe it was just the name of a house or farm, lost now in the mists of time....

 

[Jellylegs]

Are there any electoral registers about for that area and time? Thinking you could look for his dad, who seems to have died the following year?

 

[AnnB]

Just been having a rootle around, wondering if it might have been Trovel, and have found such a place in Creigbyther, Beguildy, in the 1861 census RG9/4236/59/9, home of William Edwards, a farmer of 100 acres

 

[Chimp]

Nice find @AnnB

 

[Daft Bat]

Looking at an OS map, in Llanllwyd, just to the north of Beguildy is a building named Travelly Bungalow. This is surrounded by Lower Travelly, Middle Travelly and Upper Travelly. A name change over the years perhaps?

 

[Chimp]

Could well be. I'll pass on the findings on and we may get a visit from the person I asked for. We were both stumped.

 

[Archie's Mum]

A whole family of Edwards, residence Trovel, (Creigbyther Pt of Beguildy )1861.