The Humphreys Family

These are selected extracts from the booklet The Humphreys Family. Versions of two of the chapters (which largely exclude the illustrations) and one of the appendices are given here. These are:

Chapter One: Beginnings

Chapter Two: Engineers and Iron Puddlers

Appendix Eight: Place Names in the Usk Valley

The full list of chapters is: 1 - Beginnings; 2 - Engineers and Iron Puddlers; 3 - To Wales on a Boat; 4 - The Rhondda and London; 5 - Bridgend; 6 - The Lohs of Malaysia; 7 - Pwll Uchaf; 8 - America; 9 - Not Short and Simple Annals; 10 - The Other Families.

The appendices are: 1 - Table of Direct forbears; 2 - Family Trees; 3 - Extracts from Gedcom files; 4 - Tracing the Family Tree; 5 - The Bottle Factory; 6 - Pwll Uchaf ; 7 - The Cwmwysg Poacher; 8 - Place Names in Cwmwysg; 9 - Robert Thomas, Tenor; 10 - Welcome to America 11 - Letter from Chile; 12 - Further Research. There is also a frontispiece, a list of illustrations, a preface and acknowledgements and a note of technical data.

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