Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
My paternal side are either from the west country or Ireland. Hardly any Welsh Ancestry. Alot of people in south wales may be quite surprised that their family line isn't as Welsh as they think it might be. Lots of English came to south wales to work the docks and steel works.
.....and in the coal mines. My grandmother's father was originally a copper miner from Tavistock (Devon) and he came to Mountain Ash in the 1870's to work in the coal mine.