Glamorganshire love

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  • proper noun A maritime traditional county of Wales, bordered by Monmouthshire, Brecknockshire, and Carmarthenshire.

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Examples

  • Collin's Peerage gives the following account of this lady: "Peter, Lord King married Anne, daughter of Richard Seys, Esq., of Boverton, in Glamorganshire, with whom he lived to the day of his death in perfect love and happiness, and left by her four sons and two daughters" (vol.vii. p. 273).

    Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895

  • My mother was the grandchild of Catherine [Page 4] Seys, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Seys, Esq., of Boverton Castle, in Glamorganshire.

    Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895

  • By this privation of paternal care my grandmother became the élève of her mother's father, and passed the early part of her life at the family castle in Glamorganshire.

    Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895

  • A resident of Whitchurch and local expert on the origins and history of the Glamorganshire Canal blogs about it for yourCardiff.

    Cardiff today – Cardiff Bus complaints, Siddiqi murder appeal, and TAL Cardiff 2011

  • When Ludvig died in Whitchurch, Glamorganshire, in 1956, at the ripe old age of ninety, he left the bulk of his estate to his nieces Helga and Elizabeth and a nephew called Torolf.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • Let's hope that Marcus and his kindred spirit 'Christopher Glamorganshire' will return one day.

    Goodbye Southpaw Grammar Valleys Mam 2008

  • Ann was a great-granddaughter of John and Barbara Bevan, of Treverigg, Glamorganshire, Wales, who with their children in 1683 came to Pennsylvania, where he took up a large tract of land in the Welsh Tract, in what was then Philadelphia county.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • Glamorganshire comments on Neagle's leaked e-mails and asks if she is acting on behalf of another party member as a last ditch attempt to avoid a coalition with Plaid Cymru.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • The Welsh have similar girdle-cooked foods of long heritage - such as crempogs (ffroes) and Welsh cakes (The Oxford Companion to Food mentions a theory that the Scottish miners who travelled south to work in the Welsh coal districts of Glamorganshire, were responsible for bringing the girdle pancake recipe with them.)

    Scotch Pancakes 2006

  • The Welsh have similar girdle-cooked foods of long heritage - such as crempogs (ffroes) and Welsh cakes (The Oxford Companion to Food mentions a theory that the Scottish miners who travelled south to work in the Welsh coal districts of Glamorganshire, were responsible for bringing the girdle pancake recipe with them.)

    Archive 2006-05-01 2006

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