Apparently the plaque had been in the garage when the Rev. Canon David J Wilkinson was appointed Vicar of Pennard and Ilston,  in c.1995, and it had been seen on a few occasions since, but now it was time for the family to move, the plaque came to light once more.

The actual wording can be read on the following link Plaque (facsimile of) erected at Natnl Schl Oxfd St in memory of JWC whilst to see an overview of where he was at particular points in his life, you might be interested in the following Timeline for John William Cadwalladr’s 1844-1910 life

Along with the plaque itself, I had also researched much about John William Cadwalladr [sic: Cadwallader],  and both the plaque and printed copies of my research were deposited at Swansea Museum (the old Royal Institution of Wales), Swansea, UK, in the name and memory of the late Rev. Canon David J Wilkinson.

Why the plaque to John William Cadwalladr ended up in Pennard Vicarage’s garage is a real mystery, but that he had been one of Swansea’s nineteenth century’s characters is evidenced from the amount of information available.  Hopefully the discovery (or should that be rediscovery?!) of the plaque and what has been noted re his time at the Swansea National School, Oxford Street, Swansea, might provide new interest in both the school and the man.

The link to the particular page can be found here ( pennard history – Google Search) although I would wish to point out that Google  -  like a few others who, in the past,  have made the same error  -  have included references to the Pennard which is in Somerset, England, rather than the Pennard in Gower, South Wales!  All I will add is that any references to East Pennard and/or West Pennard are primarily for Somerset, and other than where Pennard appears to be the surname of a few individuals, the majority of the other mentions appear to be for ‘our’ Pennard.

Anyway, I do hope that you’ll find the information to be of interest, and if you have anything to add to Pennard’s timeline, then I look forward to hearing from you.

This is a precis of Bob Sanders’ index to the Calendar of Deeds & Documents, Vol.1, The Coleman Deeds (National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1921), Francis Green (compiler) , with especial relevance to Pennard, Kittle and Ilston, Glamorgan. The original Deeds were purchased by the National Library of Wales from Mr James Coleman.

The original Deeds are held at the National Library of Wales, but transcripts of them are contained in the Calendar, of which 500 copies were printed around 1921.

The index compiled so far includes all persons named in the Calendar, including witnesses, Attorneys etc, and can be viewed by going to the link http://www.angelfire.com/ga/BobSanders/site.html and scrolling down the page until “Indexes to Original Documents” is found, and then by clicking on the 4 indexes shown for The Coleman Deeds.

The indexes are alphabetical, by surname. Where there are variant spellings of a surname Bob Sanders attempted to group these together, eg Bidder, Bydder. It would still be wise, however, for anyone using the index to check variant spellings to be on the safe side; where an occupation other than Gent or Yeoman is referred to such is included in brackets after the name eg Thomas, John (mercer). Similarly, where a relationship between persons indexed is given Bob Sanders included this in brackets eg Jones, Ann (wife of John Jones); the place name which follows the personal name is that which is shown in the description of the person – it is not necessarily the same as the place which the deed relates to (and there are a number of places outside Glamorgan listed in the full indexes because the person concerned was from outside the county, although also holding land or office in Glamorgan).  The date following the place name is the year of the Deed or the year which the Deed reffers to; the DD number after the date is the Deed Reference Number; the letters in brackets after the DD number are as follows:-

Amt= Agreement
Assign = Assignment
Att = Attested Copy
Bond = Bond
Cert = Certificate
Court Roll – Copy of Original Roll
Decree = Decree in Chancery
DP = Deed Poll
Est = Estreat
Exem = Exemplification
Grant = Grant
Ind = Indenture
Ind Mar = Indenture related to a marriage
LP = Letters Patent
Mand = Mandate
Memo = Memorandum
PA = Power of Attorney
Sched = Schedule
Will = Probate of Will

NB: Where a name is not followed by a place it is likely that the person listed was a witness to the Deed eg Jones, William 1655 DD 990 (Ind) would suggest that a William Jones was a witness to Deed No.990 (an Indenture) in 1655.

THE INDEX

B
Beaufort, Henry, Duke of – Pennard 1770 DD882 (Exem)

Bidder, Robert – Pennard 1660 DD815 (Ind)

Bowen, George – Pennard 1635/6 DD801 (Ind)

Bowen, John (son of George Bowen) – Pennard 1635/6 DD801 (Ind Mar)

C
Choiseul, Jean Baptiste Armand de (Marquis de Choiseul) – Kilvrough 1796 DD904 (Ind)

Choiseul, Mary de (wife of Jean Baptiste Armand de Choiseul) – Kilvrough 1796 DD904 (Ind)

G
Gammon, John – Reeve of Pennard 1770 DD822 (Exem)

Gamon, Harry – Pennard 1627 DD798 (Bond)

Gronow, Griffith – Pennard 1623 DD796 (Bond)

H
Harry, Gwenllian (wife of John Harry) – Pennard DD796 (Bond)

Harry, John (son of Richard Parry) – Pennard 1623 DD796 (Bond)

J
Jeffreys, Gabriel – Deputy Steward of the Manor of Pennard 1770 DD882 (Ind)

Johnes, Richard – Penarde 1626 DD797 (Ind)

M
Mansell, Sir Thomas Knt & Bart – Pennard 1623 DD796 (Bond)

P
Powell, Gabriel – Steward of the Manor of Pennard 1770 DD882 (Exem)

Parry, Alson (wife of Richard Parry) – Pennard 1623 DD796 (Bond)

R
Rees, David – Kittle 1770 DD882 (Exem)

W
Williams, John (brother of Edward William) – Ilston 1774 DD886 (Will)

via D/D Z 101-200 – City and County of Swansea.

Having just saved you having to search through the 985 or so images relating to Swansea (and area)  -  searchable over 330 pages!  -  I have discovered that of the images relating to Pennard and Area, most are for Pennard Castle and for Gower Heritage Centre at Parkmill , although other images of features in and around the area are to be found on the site.

Images I have noted (up to 10 November 2010) are as follows;-

PENNARD CASTLE

• Penarth castle, Oxwich bay, Glamorganshire (A view of two figures walking along road to Pennard Castle)
• Pen arth castle (A view of the ruins of Pennard Castle with cattle grazing in the foreground)
• The north east view of Pennarth castle, in the county of Glamorgan (A view of the ruins of Pennard Castle with Oxwich bay in the background and numerous ships in the sea)
• RCAHMW colour transparency of a general view of Pennard Castle
• RCAHMW colour transparency showing view of Pennard Castle, taken by Iain Wright, c.1991

GOWER HERITAGE CENTRE, PARKMILL

• Park Mill, Ilston, Gower; photo survey comprising seventeen black and white photographs taken by Rex Wailes, 1966, 5 images of which can be viewed here, here, here, here and here

OTHER IMAGES

• Extract from the Manorial Court Rolls of Oystermouth & Pennard, 1662-76
• RCAHMW digital photographic survey of Vennaway Limekiln, taken by David Leighton, 17/12/2006
• Slide of RCAHMW colour oblique aerial photograph of Parc Le Breos Burial Chamber; Parc Cwm Long Cairn, taken by C.R. Musson, 29/3/1994
• RCAHMW digital photographic survey of Cathole Cave, Parkmill, taken by David Leighton, 19/09/2006

As and when more images are added to the People’s Collection Wales website I hope to include them on the Pennard & Area Local History’s own site(s).  If in the meantime you have any images relating to Pennard & Area which may be of interest, then perhaps you might consider adding them to both this website as well as to the People’s Collection Wales site.

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‘General’, because the Home page of “British Listed Buildings Online” states;-

“Welcome to British Listed Buildings, an online database of buildings and structures that are listed as being of special architectural and historic interest.

As well as reading the official listing data for each building, you can also view the location on a map, and, where possible, see it in Google Streetview and Bing Birds Eye View. You can also add your own comments, information and photos and view comments and photos submitted by other users of the site.

You can browse for listed buildings by country, county and parish/locality: Listed Buildings in England; Listed Buildings in Scotland and Listed Buildings in Wales.  Alternatively, you can use the [site's] search page to search for buildings by name/description text or by postcode“.

‘Specific’ because one can check for a property by name, postcode or even Street name and/or Village, although as to the ‘completeness’ of the list of buildings one has to query that, if only because in Pennard parish, we have two Listed Buildings, namely the Lodge at the entrance to Kilvrough, and Henbury Cottage in Southgate, although the British Listed Buildings Online site appears to have omitted the latter Cottage!

Having said that, the site does look interesting, and descriptions, Maps/Locations etc for properties which are included on the site, are detailed.

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Based on research, your own memories, and anything else revealed through the eyes of inhabitants and surviving Documents, etc, this Blog will both reflect and be of the History of Pennard and its area, and hopefully, in the not too distant future, will also help to be the basis for the formation of a Pennard & Area Local History Group, so please do join this Project, especially as joining is absolutely free.

This new finding, which is named British Surnames says on it’s Home page “Welcome to the British Surnames website. Here, you can find information on similar surnames, most common surnames, surname meanings and etymologies as well as discussing your name in the forum.

As the name suggests, this site primarily lists surnames commonly found in Britain, but many of these are found in other parts of the world as well – so even if you’re not British, your name could well be in here!“  Having said that, neither the surname of Eunson (see Kittle) nor Powditch were included within the whole of the UK, yet I know that there were several in England and Wales at the time of the 1881 Census!

Whilst in time I hope that it will be possible to add names and other details of those living in Pennard Parish during the taking of the 1841-1911 Censuses, this new British Surnames site may, in the interim, help to show the”Top surnames by total occurrences” and the”Top surnames by population index” for the Villages mentioned above.

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P.S. You also may find the site’s About page of interest as it provides background to the site’s origins etc.

There I was, looking for information on a Norfolk Village (nothing whatsoever to do with Pennard!) when I came across a website I’d not previously known, yet what it contained was of great interest, especially when I did a search on the site for Pennard.

The site has the title of “A Vision of Britain through Time“, and what it offers  -  either by the user entering a place name or even a Postcode  -  is information relating to the place’s Location, Historical writing, Units & Statistics, Related websites and Place names, each of which, when the relevant links (left-hand column of the page) are clicked on, takes the user to a fascinating and useful set of information.

Having already accessed the site, I can give you the direct link for ‘our’ Pennard whilst when you are on the page you arrive at, you’ll notice that apart from an 1870-72 description of Pennard, there is extra information advising  that the site “includes a large library of local statistics for administrative units. For the best overall sense of how the area containing Pennard has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of Swansea. More detailed statistical data are available under Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units covering Pennard and units named after it.“

I hope that you’ll find A Vision of Britain through Time as interesting and useful as I have, and if you have interests in other parts of Gower, Swansea or further afield, that the site may well help you discover ‘new’ information about your particular area of interest.

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