To: Multiple recipients of list WELSH-L Brian: Bore da! I each at California State University, Chico. I was born and raised in Cardiff, leaving there in my twenties. Don't know anyone in the Cowles family, sorry. Nor the Nicholases from Merthry Tydfil. I've recently been writing some of my remembrances of my youth in Wales. I am even--imagine the audacity--writing "another child's Christmas in Wales." Dylan wasn't the only one! Nice to get in touch. Pob hwyl, Lynn (where, in Wales, it is a male name!) lelliott@oavax.csuchico.edu _______________________________________________________________________________ To: Multiple recipients of list WELSH-L From: WELSH Language Bulletin Board on Sat, Oct 8, 1994 3:59 PM Subject: Re: Absence of mail, q > > Sorry to hear that there hasn't been much mail lately on the Welsh highway. I > am a brand-new recipient, and look forward to learning more about Welsh and > Wales. Some of my forebears were from Wales -- the Cowles family from > Cardiff, the Nicholas family from Merthry Tydfil, the Evans family, the Lewis > family, and others. My great-great grandfather James W. Coles (Cowles) was a > Welsh immigrant who was killed in a coal mine accident near Scranton, Pa., in > 1880, and his son, David S. P. Cowles, who picked slate in Jeansville, Pa., > at the age of 9, moved with his widowed mother, brothers, and sisters, to > Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1880s. > I have visited Wales myself on a couple occasions, and named my son > Dylan Thomas Kinney in 1976. > > -- Brian W. Kinney, Muncie, Indiana >