Tag: Wales

  • To Think I Thought Cymric History was Boring

    To Think I Thought Cymric History was Boring

    Why I Couldn’t do Wednesday, but I Could do Wales

    I took so long trying to force myself to finish a post about my first day in Austria 2019, that I couldn’t focus on finishing my organization of Mary Davis’s family in Wales. And I must admit that I had an ongoing battle between King Arthur, King Henry VII, King Einion, and a handful of other Welsh kings that The Second Wife’s Story was getting lost. To be honest, I just could not find enough interest in the Cymry until my epiphany in June of last year. I needed to find those kings to make a connection to the family that Mary Davis, the Second Wife, came from.

    But now I can’t stop myself going down the British rabbit hole, so at midnight last night, I decided to divide my hyperactive focus into landing pages, so I could publish it and come back to it later if I needed to. That way I can get Mary out of Wales and into her adventure across the ocean.

    If you are a Davis family descendant, a fan of King Arthur, interested in the Tudor Dynasty, or just a fan of British history like I thought I was but really wasn’t until I learned the truth about the Brits, then you’ll find some fun in digging into stuff about King Arthur, King Henry VII, King Einion, and other medieval kings. Beginning with King Arthwys ap Mar. I’d love to get your input to see if you can see what I’m seeing, or you can tell me I’m just seeing things.

    You will be notified every time a new page or an update is added to my quickly growing database, including my Wednesday focus on The Second Wife’s Story coming on Wednesdays in the near future. You should see King Arthwys ap Mar/Mor’s page by Monday, and hopefully my bridge to chapter one on Wednesday! Thanks for reading/ See you then!

  • I Will. Have. Order.

    I Will. Have. Order.

    With apologies to Dolores Umbridge, while in complete disagreement but feeling her frustration.

    If you are not a fan of Harry Potter (You’d better not be a fan of Professor Umbridge.), the screenshot of just five sets of files that I’m currently working with should at least be a clue of what I’m talking about. I expect that anyone who looks at it can figure out what Dolores was going through.

    The lists of events, people, places and ideas are an electronic visualization resembling Umbridge’s wall of educational decrees at Hogwarts. I really don’t want to try to visualize what’s going on in my brain right now. Spontaneous combustion frightens me.

    These five PPT files are evidence of my scattered research over the past decade. It will probably surprise you that at least four of the PPT files represent people, places, and events from Wales before Mary even existed and there is plenty more representing Mary, her family, friends, places and events. But there is a method to my madness, and it will be revealed soon. Everything that comes before sets in motion the series of events and even thought processes that set Mary’s life on the path across the ocean and into America’s “Wild West”.

    This is my chapters one through four. I’ll be ready to write once I have compiled them into two files: one a chronological list of events, people, and places, and the other a bibliography of research in the order it appears. Those two files will be separated by chapter as events and people begin to appear along Mary’s path. Every detail will be found in its correct order while I further compartmentalize information before, during, and after Mary’s lifetime.

    Until I have a sequence of events by chapter, I can’t write.

    For now, my goal is to pare down and combine at least two lists a day. That way, I’ll be ready to go for next week.

    In the meantime, watch for new profiles and a new “places” page for the following people and places:

    People

    • Rudolf ABELES
    • King(s) EINION
    • Mary EYNON
    • EYNON surnames and polities
    • Johannes “John” KWIATKOWSKI
    • King Arthwrys ap MOR/MAR
    • Peter SZADLOWSKI
    • King Henry VII, TUDOR 1457-1509
    • JORDANOWO, Inowroclaw, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Prussia/Austria/Russia/Poland–depending on time frame and politics

    Places

    • Brooklyn, New York, American Colonies/United States–depending on time frame and politics
    • Brunn bei Pitten, Niederösterreich, Austria
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    • Historical Llanelly/Lanelli, Carmarthenshire, Cymru\Wales, Great Britain/United Kingdom–depending on time frame and politics
    • Olean, Cattaraugus, New York, United States
    • Pitten, Niederösterreich, Austria
    • Tupadły, Inowrocław, Kuyavia-Pomerania, Prussia/Austria/Russia Poland–depending on time frame and politics
    • Wharton, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States

    Please remember that I am currently restructuring Stories From the Past, and these items are listed in alphabetical order. They do not necessarily relate to one another at all, and many of them have no connection to the Second Wife’s Story. Names and Places will likely be re-spelled, reorganized, and rewritten depending on the historical sources I pull from.

    Stories will be linked as they are posted.

    Personal knowledge of places, people, stories, input, and suggestions are welcome.