Help with a placename

[SharonKef]

I'm trying to confim the birthplace of Frankie Ball from an entry in the 1901 Wales Census.
Class: RG13, Piece: 5045, Folio 38, Page 68
It looks to me like Caerm. Kuaps so I assume it means Carmarthenshire but Kuaps doesn't seem to exist.

Any ideas?

[glynisaddy]

hi
had a look and it definitely says caerm.kuaps,I agree that the caerm is carmarthenshire but can't help with the kuaps,your ancestor lived in nantymoel near bridgend glamorgan in 1901 and I've actually been there,its was a small mining town years ago but the mines have closed down now-sorry I couldn't help any further.
glynis

[Sue Mackay]

There is a place called Knaps mentioned in connection with Martletwy in Carmarthenshire

See http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Martletwy/

Edit: :oops: Silly me - it's actually in Pembrokeshire!

I still think it probably says Knap

[Peter Goodey]

I haven't the faintest idea what it might mean but I would say that bearing in mind that the family were in the Bridgend RD in 1892/3 and in the Bridgend RD in 1901, there is a fighting chance that they were also in the Bridgend RD in 1894/5.

Births Sep 1895
Ball Frank William Bridgend 11a 815

The birth certificate would be most reliable.

[Squaredancer]

It looks to me like Caerm. Kuaps so I assume it means Carmarthenshire but Kuaps doesn't seem to exist.



Not so sure it is Carmarthenshire as the usual abreviation is Carms. rather than Caerm. and as your chap seems to have been in Nantymoel/Bridgend area I'm wondering if it might be something more local to round there. Could you possibly post the bit in question, or a link to it, so that those of us without subs could have a look? :smile5: