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Monmouthshire (/ ˈ m ɒ n m ə θ ʃ ər, ˈ m ʌ n-,-ʃ ɪər / MON-məth-shər, MUN-, -sheer), also formerly known as the County of Monmouth (/ ˈ m ɒ n m ə θ, ˈ m ʌ n-/ MON-məth, MUN-; Welsh: Sir Fynwy), was one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales in the south-east of Wales, on the border with England.
Gwent Archives (Welsh: Archifau Gwent) is the local records office and genealogy centre, based in Ebbw Vale, South Wales for the historic county of Monmouthshire. It covers the modern local authority areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly County Borough, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen. [1]
A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 1, Part 2a. Academy Books. ISBN 9781873361122. OCLC 896118883. — (1992a). The Hundred of Abergavenny, second part. A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time Volume 1, Part 2b. Academy Books.
Monmouthshire (/ ˈ m ɒ n m ə θ ʃ ər, ˈ m ʌ n-,-ʃ ɪər / MON-məth-shər, MUN-, -sheer; Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south east of Wales.It borders Powys to the north; the English counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to the north and east; the Severn Estuary to the south, and Torfaen, Newport and Blaenau Gwent to the west.
The Rolls family of Monmouth derive from John Rolls (1735–1801), son of Aaron and Elizabeth Rolls, the Grange, Bermondsey, and of the Hendre, Monmouthshire, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1794. Much of his property in both Monmouthshire and London came through his marriage to Sarah Coysh (d. 1801), heiress of her brother Richard. John Rolls ...
Joseph Bradney was born at Greet, Tenbury Wells, Shropshire, and educated at Harrow [a] and Trinity College, Cambridge. [2] He acquired, partly by inheritance and partly purchase, Tal-y-coed Court, [b] an estate at Talycoed, Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern, near Monmouth, where he settled at an early age. [4]
This category refers to the historic county of Monmouthshire, Wales. See also principal area category, Category:Monmouthshire. Subcategories.
However, under the Laws in Wales Acts of 1535–42, the cantref was included with those situated to the east, to form the new county of Monmouthshire. [1]
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