I´m a Scotsman with Irish ancestry on one side. I learned that some of my “Irish” ancestors were called Griffiths and were descendants of Welsh who had emigrated to Ulster in the 18th century. This completed the picture and made me full Celt - Scot, Irish and Welsh. What could be better than that? BTW I think the Welsh flag and anthem are the best in the world.
That's cool, man. I can't say the same about myself. I'm basically a Germanic-Celt, if you will, ha ha. Scottish, English, Swedish and German. And yes, the Welsh flag I think ranked in as one of the most popular/coolest flags, according to a poll. Thanks for watching!
Me too....My grandmother was a Day...Dee...Ddu...... .and my great grandmother a McCaslin. I am learning Welsh and Scot's gaelic... these languages are full of old magic.
I'm from North East India, I belong to the Khasi tribe. In looks and ethnicity we are closer to South East Asian than traditional Indian. I have absolutely no ethnic connection with Wales or the Celts. But the missionaries who came to my land from 1841 till 1969 were Welsh Calvinistic Methodists. They created for us an alphabet out of the Roman script and were the pioneers in education and health-care among my people. They also brought improvements to our agriculture, carpentry and small scale industry. The missionaries translated many Welsh hymns into Khasi. In our Presbyterian Churches we sing to Welsh tunes in the Khasi language: Cwm Rhondda, Diolch Am Yr Efengyl, Blaenwern, many more! The first missionary was Thomas Jones of Berriew, founder of the first Theological College in North East India was Dr. John Roberts of Corris, founder of the Hospital was Dr. Hugh Gordon Roberts of Liverpool, longest serving missionary was Annie Wozencraft Thomas of Merthyr Tydvil, she served 67 years and died here aged 93 years, and was buried here. Our children know the story of Mary Jones of Llanfihangel and the formation of the Bible Society. It was the Welsh who uplifted us from a condition of illiteracy and socio-economic backwardness. Granted all this happened in the midst of British colonialism from the 19th to the mid 20th century, which we certainly do not condone. But we can't change history and we have to accept the good with the bad. Grateful to the people of Cymru. Lovely documentary. It's 20 years old and has aged very well. Thank you.
I've been searching for years and years and now finally discovered by my surname/dna that my roots trace all the way back to Wales and Sierra Leone I'm speechless and yet couldn't be more proud! 🏴🇸🇱
I only recently discovered that I'm Welsh...from the Sir Name "Bowen"...I'd been adopted in the late 50's or early 60's without knowing of my biological relatives...it's only as of 2022 that I discovered my Welsh heritage...oddly enough, I think I always knew I was celtic in some way based on all I'd been attracted to in my life, like gravitational pulls...this is fascinating - thank you.
I definitely have Welsh heritage. My dad was born in Llanelli and so were all of his relatives. I remember going there as a very young child and it was mostly Welsh speakers but its not like that anymore.
@@iriscollins7583 they had to build a bigger (Welsh language) school in my town for all the demand and places are still contested in the new place. I can’t speak for the rest of Wales but it seems to be really taking off in my area. (SW) I sent my kid there like “it’s cool, we can learn together” (since my family lost their Welsh from living abroad) but I try to speak the odd bits I know and she just goes off! I have to stop her and ask what certain words are or revert to English.
A truly great video on the History of Wales and of the Welsh People from time immemorial. I am Proud to be Welsh and Born in Wales in South Wales in the Rhondda Valley
My maternal grandparents were Olwen Rhys and Emlyn Morgan. Their home was Welsh speaking, in Ystalyfera. I remember my aunts and uncles singing and speaking in Welsh but I never learned as we moved to England then emigrated to Canada when I was just a child. One of my few regrets in life is not speaking our ancient language.
I was born a Davies, my granddad was from Rhyl, and his family were all Davies, Jones, Hughes and Frimston. I also believe my grandmother, who was a Thomas, was from Wales.
Y T has translated ‘gog’ as ‘cuckoo’… so, they know the colloquial ! However, I too come from Y Gogledd so - proud to say that ‘I am a gog’. Cymru am byth !
Good day,, I am a Morgan by birth. My father's name is Ivor Morgan, brother to Trevor and sons of Eric Edward Morgan who is brother to Frank. I have five sisters. There is a relative I remember, in Wales, called Vona. Eric my grandfather migrated to Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean, when we were under British rule. Eric married Margaret (Peggy) Stoddart. Eric was in the colonial force, then the police service. He is buried here in Trinidad & Tobago. I would very much like to learn more about my family history in Wales. I live in Trinidad & Tobago, married to Michael de la Bastide, retired Chief Justice and retired First President of the Caribbean Court of Justice and Privy Councilor.... Thank you for this wonderful and informative video on Wales and the Welsh peoples.
No problem! That is very interesting information. I too am related to the Morgans from Wales. Not the most recent connection. My line of Morgans starts in the mid 1500's. The Morgans and the MacKays were good friends going way back. They traded goods to one another and helped each other out. Which is why the Morgans are an accepted name for Clan MacKay, which is my clan through my dad's side. Quite the name! Cheers and thank you for watching!
Brychan of Brecon - powerful character from early 7th century. He was cousin of the last Arthur (and half Irish!). Perhaps this is where Ireland’s claim to Camelot begins.
My great grandmother was a Thomas who married a Lewis..my father had the most beautiful voice ..who would sing us children to sleep every night..the family came from Monmouthshire..I use to love listening to my grandmother speaking Welsh ..
Having my ancestry come from the Southeast United States, I am a typical mixed bag of Scots, English, Welsh, All NW Europe and Sweden/Germanic. I did not expect to have as much Welsh as I did and I've always had a fascination with the history and locations and lore associated with Wales. I recently traced my family back to the Burtons, Leighton's and Corbett's of Shropshire, and there were a number of more ancestors from Herefordshire. I'm curious to know more since these are not technically "Wales" locations but are close enough that the names and DNA must have been shared a good deal of back and forth in that region. It's nice to randomly find this video suggested to me. Very fascinating. I love reading the comments about others learning their own ancestry and desiring to know more.
You're spot on with your assumption. Hereford and Shropshire have many Welsh place names and river names. The English area of Shrewsbury use to be a part of Wales called Amwythig
Love this quaint documentary. You mentioned one of my families names Cadwallader as well. Don't know much about the name though. Also Blayney and Evans.
G'Day! Thanks for putting up this great documentary video. It was very informative. I've been researching my Welsh/Cymru heritage and ancestors. I'm a first generation Australian of 64% Welsh ethnicity. I'm enjoying meeting many Welsh cousins in Wales, England and America through Ancestry. So far the surnames in my family are definitely Rees ,Taylor, Lewis, Powell and maybe Daniel, Morgan, Price, Griffith and Rosser. They mainly come from Breconshire, Monmouthshire, Carmarthenshire and Gwent. Ooo-roo!
@@barnowl5774 Castel Nedd (Cymru), Neat(Englis) Rees and Lewis are quite plentful in Resolven if you look closely at them it can look like you are surrounded by cousins - which in general you are.
@@Morgan2XL Thanks John - I was actually just checking out some Rees' on my Ancestry DNA list that come from Resolven. I'll look into it some more. Much appreciated.
not really, go back eg 10 generations (about 200 years) work how many ancestors you potentially have, over 1000, go back another 10 generations and its over a million. Genealogists reckon everybody in North Europe has a common ancestor in the 13th century (from Germany), now that's amazing.
Cool! I also found a couple of Morgan lines through my dad's side of the family. The Morgans are a sept of Clan MacKay. According to this fella from Scotland, he told me that the MacKays and Morgans were trading partners from long ago. And they allowed each family to intermarry to strengthen the bond and relations with both families. I don't know if that's true or not? But, I have heard of the Scots and Welsh doing that sort of thing throughout history.
My name is Picton. And the amazing " Brian Picton Swann" has published books on Pictons from Wales and has traced the Pictons back to 1275. A.D.. 50 yr. Genome project. Truly amazing!!.
My DNA results were amazing. I was born in Liverpool, But I am 35% Welsh 33% Irish 26% English and 6% Swedish. I have started looking at my Welsh Ansestey, and it's going really well.
My grandmother was Welsh and lived in Conwy for most of her childhood, through her bloodline we managed to trace our family back to Llewelyn Fawr and the medieval princes of Wales.
My grandmother was part Welsh, her parents were both not really well known but from what I heard was that her father was a British soldier & her mother was creole American & her father left for war & never returned & when she was around 10 she was sent to live with a black family & she went to an all white private Catholic school while the woman's children went to a public school & every year a white woman would come by & bring her "foster mom" money & knew school uniforms for the year. I love learning about Welsh history because it makes me feel closer to my grandma & her parents.
Hi Deborah. That's cool! I also found Irish and Welsh that had married into each other's families. That seemed to have happened a lot with the Welsh. In fact, long ago there was the Kingdom of Dyfed, which was in Wales.......but was ruled by the Irish, ha ha. So those two mingled in the past quite a bit, ha ha.
@@Evanmonster1 I’m not even sure that Lanigan was our surname back then, or if we were given that name from the town we came from, I believe it was called Llonigan, somewhere along the Wye.
My forefather was Edward Morgan from Caernarfon, Wales and his wife Elizabeth. Found out the Northern Welsh language is called cofi along with it's speakers as Caernarfon is the center of it. I see two different spellings 'Caernarfon' and 'Caernarvon' so which is the proper in cofi?
Nice. I don't have any Hughes in my family. But I did find the Evans and I think the Howell family from northern Wales. I know the Evans family I found is from Talybont.
@@Evanmonster1 my Hughes ancestors started off in Carmarthenshire, and migrated to Caenorvoshire, I also have ancestors, That were Philipps Wogan, Hughes HUMPHRIES Davis Howell Jones Evans, and Griffith.
@@MauriceTarantulas everybody has German blood. Genealogists reckon everybody from Europe has a common german ancestor, from sometime around the 13th century AD.
Harris came from wales in 1663 , grandmothers from north wales in the 1680s that would have been welsh at that time ! Proud to be a Celt/Norse tried and true ! Just can’t decide do I learn Scottish Gaelic or welsh Gaelic 🤷🏻♂️
Hi James. That's cool about the northern Welsh ancestry. With the celtic languages you have Q-Celtic, which would be the gaelic languages: Scots Gaelic, Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic. And then you have P-Celtic: Cornish, Breton and Welsh, which are a Brythonic/Celtic language. All of them are hard to learn, but I'd say the Welsh language is the most difficult. It's almost impossible to pronounce those words correctly, ha ha. But I say go for it!
We're from the Marches so have a lot of Welsh Surnames. My Granny being a "Pugh". Farmers n miners. But I believe they moved from Powys to Shropshire (Telford) for work. So marcher people can have Welsh and Germanic/Viking blood. (I know we have a Norman name also). The closest I got to Wales is Malverly and Alberbury. Also we might have founded the village Titley, again very close to border as one of our names is "Titley". (Teitr which is of Germanic origin). Theres a local legend called the black dog of Vaughan! (Am also a Vaughan. And Evans, Lewis). The research will continue! P.s Last Year did Rhayader n black mountains on motorbike this year again back to Shropshire to use the record office then onto Ynys Mon!🏴
Morgan seems to be a very common surname in Wales. My family name is Morgan, but we always thought we were Irish, because the family was in Northern Ireland at least by the 1860's. I would be very interested to know if there were main waves of immigration from Wales to Ireland, which could give me a sense of what time frame to be looking.
Madoc Morfran was a 6th century Prince, son of Meurig of Glamorgan and brother to King Arthrwys. So both, Madoc and Arthur sailed to America, Kentucky in the 6th century. that´s a fact. Taliesin, Arthur´s Chief Bard documented the journey in the Addfwyneu Taliesin. Tudor was Tewdrig, Arthur´s grandfather, buried in Mathern.
....so America is in fact welsh!, Was "Kentucky" already so named?, Or did these intrepid, not least to say -' maritime geniuses', come up with the name?. 🤦
I think the only people that went to America pre Columbus were Vikings according to whats commonly regarded as fact. I doubt any 6th century boat would have made it. A Viking longship yes.
Fact not, wild speculation at best based on some very loose interpretations. Its even very doubtful that the boats of that era could even cross an ocean. No serious historian believes it other than the two guys who made it up.
My maternal grandparents Samuel Harvey and Maria Morgan where from Blaehavon and Ebbwvale in southern Wales. Can anyone give me info on them? These children were born there; Samuel Jr.,Kable and Annie who burned to death. The family migrated to the states in approximately 1893.
I live in America and I just found out this week that My mother Marples, was from Griffith, Etc. So glad to find out my heritage. I came from the last king of Wales 🏴 much love. I cant wait to learn more ❤️
Note to self: nudge, nudge you might want to investigate your culture your roots your heritage. "great idea, long weekend coming up, should be able to figure out Wales in three days, I'll give myself a week and figure out the British Islands, then Denmark! A year and a half later still in Wales, oh the rabbit hole it is!
I don't know exactly how distantly related the languages are. But I do know that Welsh and Scots gaelic and Irish are quite different from one another. If you look at a sentence in Welsh and one in gaelic, you can see the difference there. Also they sound a lot different because they are two different branches of the celtic language. Welsh/Cornish/Breton is P-Celtic. Irish/Scots Gaelic is Q-Celtic. Also historians say that the ancient Pictish people spoke "old Welsh", which is quite interesting. Thank you for check out my video!
Seems like the history of American welsh who came here to be freeman in America's they kept the first forefathers name as the last name and kept it going from hywel family to now what it's name english surname to howell it will forever hold truth that hywel is our name .
Knight Hywel is the first cousin to King Author by tale which forefathers to ap hywel who had captured king John the 2nd during the 100 year war that was knighted by the black prince and given land in South hamptons .
its doubtful there ever was a king Arthur (Author?), maybe he was a combination of several warlords, around 600 AD. We know nothing about him, not his cousins, knights etc, it was all mostly made up in the 13th century.
Also a slave, a blacksmith, quite probably a few Dukes and maybe a king or two. Work out the numbers, if you go back 2000 years you "potentially" have more ancestors than there are known stars in the universe, and that doubles every generation.
It appears my ancestor emigrated from Laugharne, or Talacharn in Welsh, in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Anyone know of the Laugharne family there? I only knew of Rowland Laugharne and his Civil War shenanigans. He is likely my ancestors brother or uncle.
I am 48% Welch. I feel like I should have the accent it sounds and feels more natural to me when I use it. I have the last name Morris which was my great grandfather. My great great grandfather's last name was Davis going back further it was Davies for his Grandparents
Accents are not hereditary per-se. As a child you learn to speak from your parents, your accent develops from that, the muscles in the mouth & tongue develop to speak like your parents. If you had been brought up in China, you'd have a chinese accent.
My family's crest is traced back through price & Herron. I have a strong bloodline & I plan on returning to my true country. At the time of my ×2 Grandmothers migration to the New England states here in North Eastern Pennsylvania in the early 20th century at Plymouth Mt. And then my birth place of Mt.Top, Pa.
The funny part pilgrimages to Rome did not make anyone actually any holier than anybody else by going on one as opposed to those who stayed home. The church just wanted the money was all it meant to fleece the faithful because religion was always considered the world's oldest scam the same way that prostitution was the world's oldest profession
Its the same as pilgrimages to Mecca now. You look at it through our modern eyes, they thought it more likely to get them into heaven, to cure their ails etc. it would have taken weeks to walk to St Davids, months to Rome, if nothing else you have to admire their determination even if it seems crazy to us now. The worlds oldest scam is royalty, a 5000 year old protection racket originally created by the Mafia Dons of their day.
Jones here 👋 and Hughes ìn US. However, I look very Scandinavian hmm ?? most people ask if im Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch ect ect . None as far as I know .
That sounds good to me, ha ha! My second great grandmother was a Jones. I traced them right back to Abermarlais, Wales. I've Hughes, Evans, Powells, Davis, Davies, as well. My other great grandmother was from Sweden. So that's rather funny you mention that, ha ha.
As an American ulster scot all that means I am a mixed mutt. Scot Irish Welsh French Danish dutch etc.the borderlands of southern Scotland and northern England stuck in the middle of centuries of war.
My maiden name is Willoughby. My dad has passed. My grandmother his Mom has passed. Myself & my brother remain with the name Willoughby. You never hear of it's history.
Ha ha, I was hoping they'd mention them too. I'm related to the Evans family from Talybont, Wales. They moved to Pennsylvania along with many other Welsh.
While my surname is not Welsh, my DNA is a little more than 75% Welsh. It's when I look at my other relatives that the Welsh names and talents emerge. There, I find the Griffiths, Evans, Llewellyns, with first names Owen, Gwilym, etc.
The Welsh and my ulster scot ancestors shared a common bond in America as rebels against the English that the American revolution was a continuing of the rebellions and civil wars of great Britain. A good book on the subject I read was the cousins wars. The English civil war the American revolution and civil war same thing just different times and places and circumstances.
Read the book "fusiliers", its about a British regiment during the American war of independence. That regiment is the 23rd foot, the Royal Welch Fusiliers. There was quite a lot of support right across Britain for the Americans during the war of independence, one of the reasons after the surrender at Yorktown the British didn't give it another go as it hadn't been widely supported even in the UK (and there were more lucrative assets to fight for).
i'm from Wales, traced my ancestry (as much as you can), but i've never heard that surname, very unusual. As its unusual, it should be relatively easy to trace (my surname is common, if i go back about 4 generations on my fathers side its difficult, my mothers maiden name is unusual and her ancestors have similar rare-ish names, because of that , I've been able to trace (some of) them back to the 15th century from Carmarthenshire, Cornwall, Gloucester, berkshire, dorset, London, kent)
That is funny a Roman calling someone who was not Roman a barbarian when the very term barbarian meant did not speak Greek not did not speak Latin. Originally they would have been pagan and worshipped their own gods and goddesses because not all Romans were Christian many were not until it became an approved religion in the Roman Empire
Hiraeth = long pain. A yearning for their unrecognised past. If the Britons think that they have an illustrious history, it fades compared to the truth! Y gwir yn erbyn y byd.
A Reeve was the rank title of the appointed estate manager for landowners estate, often the Lord (landed gentry) would not live on his multiple estates and would appoint a reeve to act on his behalf. This is more likely the origin of your surname.
I´m a Scotsman with Irish ancestry on one side. I learned that some of my “Irish” ancestors were called Griffiths and were descendants of Welsh who had emigrated to Ulster in the 18th century. This completed the picture and made me full Celt - Scot, Irish and Welsh. What could be better than that? BTW I think the Welsh flag and anthem are the best in the world.
That's cool, man. I can't say the same about myself. I'm basically a Germanic-Celt, if you will, ha ha. Scottish, English, Swedish and German. And yes, the Welsh flag I think ranked in as one of the most popular/coolest flags, according to a poll. Thanks for watching!
Me too....My grandmother was a Day...Dee...Ddu...... .and my great grandmother a McCaslin. I am learning Welsh and Scot's gaelic... these languages are full of old magic.
My great grandparents were born in Wales … GEORGE COLES AND ELIZABETH LEE
Some of my ancestors were Griffiths as well
My surname is also Griffiths
Thanks for sharing, I am American of Welsh ancestry and I like learning Welsh culture and history.
I'm from North East India, I belong to the Khasi tribe. In looks and ethnicity we are closer to South East Asian than traditional Indian. I have absolutely no ethnic connection with Wales or the Celts.
But the missionaries who came to my land from 1841 till 1969 were Welsh Calvinistic Methodists. They created for us an alphabet out of the Roman script and were the pioneers in education and health-care among my people. They also brought improvements to our agriculture, carpentry and small scale industry. The missionaries translated many Welsh hymns into Khasi. In our Presbyterian Churches we sing to Welsh tunes in the Khasi language: Cwm Rhondda, Diolch Am Yr Efengyl, Blaenwern, many more!
The first missionary was Thomas Jones of Berriew, founder of the first Theological College in North East India was Dr. John Roberts of Corris, founder of the Hospital was Dr. Hugh Gordon Roberts of Liverpool, longest serving missionary was Annie Wozencraft Thomas of Merthyr Tydvil, she served 67 years and died here aged 93 years, and was buried here. Our children know the story of Mary Jones of Llanfihangel and the formation of the Bible Society.
It was the Welsh who uplifted us from a condition of illiteracy and socio-economic backwardness. Granted all this happened in the midst of British colonialism from the 19th to the mid 20th century, which we certainly do not condone. But we can't change history and we have to accept the good with the bad.
Grateful to the people of Cymru. Lovely documentary. It's 20 years old and has aged very well. Thank you.
Amazing! That is a beautiful connection of cultures.
Great story, well told
Wales was also invaded by the e flush so we know how other countries feel
I've been searching for years and years and now finally discovered by my surname/dna that my roots trace all the way back to Wales and Sierra Leone I'm speechless and yet couldn't be more proud! 🏴🇸🇱
Very cool combination. Cymru am byth!
I only recently discovered that I'm Welsh...from the Sir Name "Bowen"...I'd been adopted in the late 50's or early 60's without knowing of my biological relatives...it's only as of 2022 that I discovered my Welsh heritage...oddly enough, I think I always knew I was celtic in some way based on all I'd been attracted to in my life, like gravitational pulls...this is fascinating - thank you.
Croeso to the Welsh family
It's called Hiraeth.
My surname is Richards…. Great Great Grandfather moved his family to the Caribbean. I would so love to visit Wales… roots, you know.❤✨
I definitely have Welsh heritage. My dad was born in Llanelli and so were all of his relatives. I remember going there as a very young child and it was mostly Welsh speakers but its not like that anymore.
Welsh is being spoken in Schools now, I believe a few are teaching in Welsh.
@@iriscollins7583 they had to build a bigger (Welsh language) school in my town for all the demand and places are still contested in the new place.
I can’t speak for the rest of Wales but it seems to be really taking off in my area. (SW)
I sent my kid there like “it’s cool, we can learn together” (since my family lost their Welsh from living abroad) but I try to speak the odd bits I know and she just goes off! I have to stop her and ask what certain words are or revert to English.
Welcome my fellow CELT .
@@philliphopkins6903not ‘Celt’… Trojan, Egyptian and places in between.
My great grandma Hosken lived in Monmouthshire, my mother's quater Welsh making me 1/8 th Welsh. I'm proud of my Welsh heritage
I’m from North Wales, where did Your Ancestors move to from Wales?
A truly great video on the History of Wales and of the Welsh People from time immemorial. I am Proud to be Welsh and Born in Wales in South Wales in the Rhondda Valley
My maternal grandparents were Olwen Rhys and Emlyn Morgan. Their home was Welsh speaking, in Ystalyfera. I remember my aunts and uncles singing and speaking in Welsh but I never learned as we moved to England then emigrated to Canada when I was just a child. One of my few regrets in life is not speaking our ancient language.
Good video!
I’m Welsh,Scottish, Irish and English
It goes further back than 300 AD
I didn't know that Wales goes further back to 300 AD.
This is genuinely fascinating.
I was born a Davies, my granddad was from Rhyl, and his family were all Davies, Jones, Hughes and Frimston. I also believe my grandmother, who was a Thomas, was from Wales.
I am a Gog (Northern Welsh) Jones. Prynhawn da!
Y T has translated ‘gog’ as ‘cuckoo’… so, they know the colloquial ! However, I too come from Y Gogledd so - proud to say that ‘I am a gog’. Cymru am byth !
One Word to be Welsh ..... Honoured.❤
Bendigedig !
Good day,, I am a Morgan by birth. My father's name is Ivor Morgan, brother to Trevor and sons of Eric Edward Morgan who is brother to Frank. I have five sisters. There is a relative I remember, in Wales, called Vona. Eric my grandfather migrated to Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean, when we were under British rule. Eric married Margaret (Peggy) Stoddart. Eric was in the colonial force, then the police service. He is buried here in Trinidad & Tobago. I would very much like to learn more about my family history in Wales. I live in Trinidad & Tobago, married to Michael de la Bastide, retired Chief Justice and retired First President of the Caribbean Court of Justice and Privy Councilor.... Thank you for this wonderful and informative video on Wales and the Welsh peoples.
No problem! That is very interesting information. I too am related to the Morgans from Wales. Not the most recent connection. My line of Morgans starts in the mid 1500's. The Morgans and the MacKays were good friends going way back. They traded goods to one another and helped each other out. Which is why the Morgans are an accepted name for Clan MacKay, which is my clan through my dad's side. Quite the name! Cheers and thank you for watching!
This is fantastic. My great grandfather is from Glamorgan. Lewis 💪🏼
Breckon or Brecon Surname here. But I don’t have freckles!
Brychan of Brecon - powerful character from early 7th century. He was cousin of the last Arthur (and half Irish!). Perhaps this is where Ireland’s claim to Camelot begins.
Exceptional documentary you posted, Thank you!
Just recently discovered my great grandma was born in Wales. Her maiden name was Thomas.
My great grandmother was a Thomas who married a Lewis..my father had the most beautiful voice ..who would sing us children to sleep every night..the family came from Monmouthshire..I use to love listening to my grandmother speaking Welsh ..
Having my ancestry come from the Southeast United States, I am a typical mixed bag of Scots, English, Welsh, All NW Europe and Sweden/Germanic. I did not expect to have as much Welsh as I did and I've always had a fascination with the history and locations and lore associated with Wales. I recently traced my family back to the Burtons, Leighton's and Corbett's of Shropshire, and there were a number of more ancestors from Herefordshire. I'm curious to know more since these are not technically "Wales" locations but are close enough that the names and DNA must have been shared a good deal of back and forth in that region. It's nice to randomly find this video suggested to me. Very fascinating. I love reading the comments about others learning their own ancestry and desiring to know more.
You're spot on with your assumption. Hereford and Shropshire have many Welsh place names and river names. The English area of Shrewsbury use to be a part of Wales called Amwythig
@@PhilPouch_ Thank you for the information. I am still wanting to learn more details. :)
My family in Devon and Cornwall were Tin and Copper miners...when the mines closed they went off to Mountain Ash...back in the 1800s.
I didn't think I was from Wales but I did have family that left Wales for America and Ireland.
Love this quaint documentary. You mentioned one of my families names Cadwallader as well. Don't know much about the name though. Also Blayney and Evans.
G'Day! Thanks for putting up this great documentary video. It was very informative. I've been researching my Welsh/Cymru heritage and ancestors. I'm a first generation Australian of 64% Welsh ethnicity. I'm enjoying meeting many Welsh cousins in Wales, England and America through Ancestry. So far the surnames in my family are definitely Rees ,Taylor, Lewis, Powell and maybe Daniel, Morgan, Price, Griffith and Rosser. They mainly come from Breconshire, Monmouthshire, Carmarthenshire and Gwent. Ooo-roo!
Rees and Lewis can be quite inter related around Nedd.
@@Morgan2XL G'Day John, Could you explain more ie. Is Nedd a place?
@@barnowl5774 Castel Nedd (Cymru), Neat(Englis) Rees and Lewis are quite plentful in Resolven if you look closely at them it can look like you are surrounded by cousins - which in general you are.
@@Morgan2XL Thanks John - I was actually just checking out some Rees' on my Ancestry DNA list that come from Resolven. I'll look into it some more. Much appreciated.
@@barnowl5774 probably show up with a bunch of Lewis in Aus as well of half of Neath on Ancestry as 4rth and 5 cuz. At the 8 to 20 CM level
Thank you for this video! As a Morgan I am proud and excited to learn more about my history :)
My father was born in Llanelli Carmarthenshire in 1912. Evan Thomas Morgan.
Very interesting! Thanks for posting.
On my other side, we come from John Bates of Kent. My grandparents are Dukes. Amazing ❤
not really, go back eg 10 generations (about 200 years) work how many ancestors you potentially have, over 1000, go back another 10 generations and its over a million. Genealogists reckon everybody in North Europe has a common ancestor in the 13th century (from Germany), now that's amazing.
Walter Leonard Morgan Escambia County Florida by way of Wales!
im discovering anyway
Cool! I also found a couple of Morgan lines through my dad's side of the family. The Morgans are a sept of Clan MacKay. According to this fella from Scotland, he told me that the MacKays and Morgans were trading partners from long ago. And they allowed each family to intermarry to strengthen the bond and relations with both families. I don't know if that's true or not? But, I have heard of the Scots and Welsh doing that sort of thing throughout history.
My name is Picton. And the amazing " Brian Picton Swann" has published books on Pictons from Wales and has traced the Pictons back to 1275. A.D.. 50 yr. Genome project. Truly amazing!!.
My DNA results were amazing. I was born in Liverpool, But I am 35% Welsh 33% Irish 26% English and 6% Swedish. I have started looking at my Welsh Ansestey, and it's going really well.
Rwy'n caru Cymru, fy nghartref a tir fy nhadau
MORGAN and STOCKHAM, here!
My grandmother was Welsh and lived in Conwy for most of her childhood, through her bloodline we managed to trace our family back to Llewelyn Fawr and the medieval princes of Wales.
My grandmother was part Welsh, her parents were both not really well known but from what I heard was that her father was a British soldier & her mother was creole American & her father left for war & never returned & when she was around 10 she was sent to live with a black family & she went to an all white private Catholic school while the woman's children went to a public school & every year a white woman would come by & bring her "foster mom" money & knew school uniforms for the year. I love learning about Welsh history because it makes me feel closer to my grandma & her parents.
My name is Gael Davis... Welsh & New Zealand ancestors ..... starting our ancestry foundation in Tasmania, Australia
Frachiseur brought to the U.S. from Wales 1812 !!
I recently learned that my remote ancestors moved from Wales to Ireland
Hi Deborah. That's cool! I also found Irish and Welsh that had married into each other's families. That seemed to have happened a lot with the Welsh. In fact, long ago there was the Kingdom of Dyfed, which was in Wales.......but was ruled by the Irish, ha ha. So those two mingled in the past quite a bit, ha ha.
@@Evanmonster1 I’m not even sure that Lanigan was our surname back then, or if we were given that name from the town we came from, I believe it was called Llonigan, somewhere along the Wye.
I read somewhere that the Irish are the Welsh who could swim
My forefather was Edward Morgan from Caernarfon, Wales and his wife Elizabeth. Found out the Northern Welsh language is called cofi along with it's speakers as Caernarfon is the center of it. I see two different spellings 'Caernarfon' and 'Caernarvon' so which is the proper in cofi?
No ‘v’ in the Welsh alphabet.. this is the English influence.
My name is Hughes, My main Welsh ancestors were Hughes all from North Wales.
Nice. I don't have any Hughes in my family. But I did find the Evans and I think the Howell family from northern Wales. I know the Evans family I found is from Talybont.
@@Evanmonster1 my Hughes ancestors started off in Carmarthenshire, and migrated to Caenorvoshire, I also have ancestors, That were Philipps Wogan, Hughes HUMPHRIES Davis Howell Jones Evans, and Griffith.
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"Everyone" from North Wales is called Hughes, including my family, though I am actually a Londoner.
There are those who are Welsh, and those who wish they were. Cymru Am Byth
Or those who know they are of mixed heritage and celebrate it all.
Am proud to have Germanic blood as I do Celtic. Wes Hael and Iechhyd da.
@@MauriceTarantulas everybody has German blood. Genealogists reckon everybody from Europe has a common german ancestor, from sometime around the 13th century AD.
@@philldavies7940 Be interested to see what Irish peoples DNA looks like, I'd have thought some wont show any Germanic.
This explains my ancestors name John/Jones noted on geneology paper being changed to Jones in America.
I think that it would be nice if the cross of St David was added to the Union Jack. Better to be inclusive than exclusive. Public debate please!
Harris came from wales in 1663 , grandmothers from north wales in the 1680s that would have been welsh at that time ! Proud to be a Celt/Norse tried and true ! Just can’t decide do I learn Scottish Gaelic or welsh Gaelic 🤷🏻♂️
Hi James. That's cool about the northern Welsh ancestry. With the celtic languages you have Q-Celtic, which would be the gaelic languages: Scots Gaelic, Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic. And then you have P-Celtic: Cornish, Breton and Welsh, which are a Brythonic/Celtic language. All of them are hard to learn, but I'd say the Welsh language is the most difficult. It's almost impossible to pronounce those words correctly, ha ha. But I say go for it!
We're from the Marches so have a lot of Welsh Surnames. My Granny being a "Pugh". Farmers n miners. But I believe they moved from Powys to Shropshire (Telford) for work. So marcher people can have Welsh and Germanic/Viking blood. (I know we have a Norman name also).
The closest I got to Wales is Malverly and Alberbury. Also we might have founded the village Titley, again very close to border as one of our names is "Titley". (Teitr which is of Germanic origin). Theres a local legend called the black dog of Vaughan! (Am also a Vaughan. And Evans, Lewis).
The research will continue!
P.s Last Year did Rhayader n black mountains on motorbike this year again back to Shropshire to use the record office then onto Ynys Mon!🏴
My grandmother was a Pugh. Can’t wait to start my search
@@elaineporter182 Keep me posted😉. Hopefully will turn up more this year.
dude, this is cool
Ian Beale at 0:33
Morgan seems to be a very common surname in Wales. My family name is Morgan, but we always thought we were Irish, because the family was in Northern Ireland at least by the 1860's. I would be very interested to know if there were main waves of immigration from Wales to Ireland, which could give me a sense of what time frame to be looking.
This was fasincating! I learned so much :) Diolch yn fawr!
I'm glad to hear that. :) Plenty more where that came from. Cheers! :)
I was born a Griffiths in Singapore, named after my father who was also Griffiths. Would like to find the Griffiths family tree.
This was lovely, diolch yn fawr!
Cymru am byth 🏴
Glad you dig the video! Cheers!
Madoc Morfran was a 6th century Prince, son of Meurig of Glamorgan and brother to King Arthrwys. So both, Madoc and Arthur sailed to America, Kentucky in the 6th century. that´s a fact. Taliesin, Arthur´s Chief Bard documented the journey in the Addfwyneu Taliesin. Tudor was Tewdrig, Arthur´s grandfather, buried in Mathern.
....so America is in fact welsh!, Was "Kentucky" already so named?, Or did these intrepid, not least to say -' maritime geniuses', come up with the name?. 🤦
I think the only people that went to America pre Columbus were Vikings according to whats commonly regarded as fact.
I doubt any 6th century boat would have made it. A Viking longship yes.
@@MauriceTarantulas I don´t think so and maybe I should repeat my comment once again.
Fact not, wild speculation at best based on some very loose interpretations. Its even very doubtful that the boats of that era could even cross an ocean. No serious historian believes it other than the two guys who made it up.
@@MonikaEscobar1965 Err dont bother I can read.
P.s And you cant "sail to Kentucky" either. That's a fact😂
I did an ancestry test. It said I'm 92% Welsh. I don't know anyone who's Welsh in my family, though my family name is Owen so must be from way back.
capital W in Wales or Welsh please don't be rude
65% Welsh...10% English...born in Germany to a german mother..10% scandi...4 % baltic...
My maternal grandparents Samuel Harvey and Maria Morgan where from Blaehavon and Ebbwvale in southern Wales. Can anyone give me info on them? These children were born there; Samuel Jr.,Kable and Annie who burned to death. The family migrated to the states in approximately 1893.
I live in America and I just found out this week that My mother Marples, was from Griffith, Etc.
So glad to find out my heritage. I came from the last king of Wales 🏴 much love. I cant wait to learn more ❤️
I'm 15pct English 13 Scotish 5 Irish 3 Welch - somehow that 3 pct intrigues me the most
Note to self: nudge, nudge you might want to investigate your culture your roots your heritage. "great idea, long weekend coming up, should be able to figure out Wales in three days, I'll give myself a week and figure out the British Islands, then Denmark! A year and a half later still in Wales, oh the rabbit hole it is!
I'm 10th or 11th generation the first of my fathers line was a Orlando Hughes who came to America in 1646
Very interesting👍
I wonder how close or distant related the old Celtic languages are between the Welsh, Irish, and Scottish people are, and if they sound similar.
I don't know exactly how distantly related the languages are. But I do know that Welsh and Scots gaelic and Irish are quite different from one another. If you look at a sentence in Welsh and one in gaelic, you can see the difference there.
Also they sound a lot different because they are two different branches of the celtic language. Welsh/Cornish/Breton is P-Celtic. Irish/Scots Gaelic is Q-Celtic. Also historians say that the ancient Pictish people spoke "old Welsh", which is quite interesting. Thank you for check out my video!
Seems like the history of American welsh who came here to be freeman in America's they kept the first forefathers name as the last name and kept it going from hywel family to now what it's name english surname to howell it will forever hold truth that hywel is our name .
Knight Hywel is the first cousin to King Author by tale which forefathers to ap hywel who had captured king John the 2nd during the 100 year war that was knighted by the black prince and given land in South hamptons .
its doubtful there ever was a king Arthur (Author?), maybe he was a combination of several warlords, around 600 AD. We know nothing about him, not his cousins, knights etc, it was all mostly made up in the 13th century.
Lewis, is the surname as I understand it to be, Black, is another surname. Black however I'm not aware of any connection.
Dafydd Emyr was so handsome and cute
Supposedly my ancestor was a welsh chieftain?
Also a slave, a blacksmith, quite probably a few Dukes and maybe a king or two. Work out the numbers, if you go back 2000 years you "potentially" have more ancestors than there are known stars in the universe, and that doubles every generation.
It appears my ancestor emigrated from Laugharne, or Talacharn in Welsh, in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Anyone know of the Laugharne family there? I only knew of Rowland Laugharne and his Civil War shenanigans. He is likely my ancestors brother or uncle.
I am 48% Welch. I feel like I should have the accent it sounds and feels more natural to me when I use it. I have the last name Morris which was my great grandfather. My great great grandfather's last name was Davis going back further it was Davies for his Grandparents
I got a really strong valley accent 😂🙈I hate it sometimes it's hard to shift the accent when you was born there 😅
Accents are not hereditary per-se. As a child you learn to speak from your parents, your accent develops from that, the muscles in the mouth & tongue develop to speak like your parents. If you had been brought up in China, you'd have a chinese accent.
My family's crest is traced back through price & Herron. I have a strong bloodline & I plan on returning to my true country. At the time of my ×2 Grandmothers migration to the New England states here in North Eastern Pennsylvania in the early 20th century at Plymouth Mt. And then my birth place of Mt.Top, Pa.
The funny part pilgrimages to Rome did not make anyone actually any holier than anybody else by going on one as opposed to those who stayed home. The church just wanted the money was all it meant to fleece the faithful because religion was always considered the world's oldest scam the same way that prostitution was the world's oldest profession
Its the same as pilgrimages to Mecca now. You look at it through our modern eyes, they thought it more likely to get them into heaven, to cure their ails etc. it would have taken weeks to walk to St Davids, months to Rome, if nothing else you have to admire their determination even if it seems crazy to us now.
The worlds oldest scam is royalty, a 5000 year old protection racket originally created by the Mafia Dons of their day.
Have you been listening to Max Boyce singing ‘The Glory that was Rome’?
Very Good!... 41 🐄🦉🏴☠
Any price out there?
Jones here 👋 and Hughes ìn US. However, I look very Scandinavian hmm ?? most people ask if im Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch ect ect . None as far as I know .
That sounds good to me, ha ha! My second great grandmother was a Jones. I traced them right back to Abermarlais, Wales. I've Hughes, Evans, Powells, Davis, Davies, as well. My other great grandmother was from Sweden. So that's rather funny you mention that, ha ha.
As an American ulster scot all that means I am a mixed mutt. Scot Irish Welsh French Danish dutch etc.the borderlands of southern Scotland and northern England stuck in the middle of centuries of war.
My maiden name is Willoughby. My dad has passed. My grandmother his Mom has passed. Myself & my brother remain with the name Willoughby. You never hear of it's history.
My name goes back before the birth of Christ
Yeh, seen the film, Jason and the Argonauts, set around 1000 BC.
My Celtic roots from Ireland and Scotland are understood. My Welsh heritage surname is Noyes Welsh for Noah.
Where's Evans?
Ha ha, I was hoping they'd mention them too. I'm related to the Evans family from Talybont, Wales. They moved to Pennsylvania along with many other Welsh.
@@Evanmonster1 My grandparents on father's side were from Anglesey, they never told me from which town, somehow ended up in Croydon!
Probably down the Pub
Thank you, I learned some history.
Those burial mounts and everything of the stone is there as a Celtic nation from Europe
While my surname is not Welsh, my DNA is a little more than 75% Welsh. It's when I look at my other relatives that the Welsh names and talents emerge. There, I find the Griffiths, Evans, Llewellyns, with first names Owen, Gwilym, etc.
I would like to discover that I had at least a partially Welsh ancestry.
The Welsh and my ulster scot ancestors shared a common bond in America as rebels against the English that the American revolution was a continuing of the rebellions and civil wars of great Britain. A good book on the subject I read was the cousins wars. The English civil war the American revolution and civil war same thing just different times and places and circumstances.
Read the book "fusiliers", its about a British regiment during the American war of independence. That regiment is the 23rd foot, the Royal Welch Fusiliers. There was quite a lot of support right across Britain for the Americans during the war of independence, one of the reasons after the surrender at Yorktown the British didn't give it another go as it hadn't been widely supported even in the UK (and there were more lucrative assets to fight for).
What does the name Wyles mean?
KHUMRY PEOPLES.
What's in a name ?
I am trying. Taid from Brynsiencyn Angelsy. Nain Hen from Almwich. Taid Hen from Llangevney. I am Hughes and Jones..
alot people with name leader
My mothers maiden name was baugh. Any of you in wales have information about this name.
i'm from Wales, traced my ancestry (as much as you can), but i've never heard that surname, very unusual. As its unusual, it should be relatively easy to trace (my surname is common, if i go back about 4 generations on my fathers side its difficult, my mothers maiden name is unusual and her ancestors have similar rare-ish names, because of that , I've been able to trace (some of) them back to the 15th century from Carmarthenshire, Cornwall, Gloucester, berkshire, dorset, London, kent)
Gwartney (Gwalchmai)
That is funny a Roman calling someone who was not Roman a barbarian when the very term barbarian meant did not speak Greek not did not speak Latin. Originally they would have been pagan and worshipped their own gods and goddesses because not all Romans were Christian many were not until it became an approved religion in the Roman Empire
Hiraeth = long pain.
A yearning for their unrecognised past.
If the Britons think that they have an illustrious history, it fades compared to the truth!
Y gwir yn erbyn y byd.
"My name is Mohammed" 😉
im not welsh but i do want to be
What about Evans
.......What about them?????..............
@@Evanmonster1 didn't get to finish video. My last name so as to why I'm asking
Edwards family!!!
I'm a Reeves, so I guess that makes me a Reece
A Reeve was the rank title of the appointed estate manager for landowners estate, often the Lord (landed gentry) would not live on his multiple estates and would appoint a reeve to act on his behalf. This is more likely the origin of your surname.
Coach Dan Reeves of the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons. Hi coach!
@@tomjacobson631 I wish lol
A Reevor was also a Northumbrian/scottish border names for one of the cattle rustlers and raiders that lived in those parts.