KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE, 1901

KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE 1901

Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire,1901 The proprietors trust that the present Edition of Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire may be found at least equal in accuracy to the previous ones. Every place in Monmouthshire, and every parish will again be found to be included in the book. The Letters M.O.O. and S.B. are abbreviations adopted by H.M. Post Office to represent Money Order Office and Savings Bank.

TROSTREY

TROSTREY is a parish on the eastern bank of the river Usk, and near the road between Usk and Abergavenny, 2� miles north-by-west from Usk station on the Monmouth and Pontypool Road line of the Great Western railway, in the Southern division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Usk, union of Pontypool, county court district of Usk, rural deanery of Raglan, archdeaconry of Monmouth, and diocese of Llandaff.

The church of St. David is a small but ancient building of stone, in the Gothic style, repaired and re-pewed in 1877; it has a chancel, nave, western porch, and a western turret containing 2 bells: there are sittings for 100 persons . The register of baptisms dates from the year 1723; marriages and burials, 1731. The living is a rectory, annexed to that of Bettws-Newydd, joint net yearly value �127, with glebe (�94), in the gift of Sir A. J. Fludyer, bart., of Ayston, Rutland, and the Dean and Chapter of Llandaff alternately, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Herbert Sheppard M.A. of Clare College,Cambridge, who resides at Bettws-Newydd, and is also perpetual curate of Kemeys Commander.

Trostrey Court, an ancient building, was occupied during the time of the Civil Wars by the Parliamentarians; a few years ago some letters and dispatches of Cromwell's were discovered here.

Sir Arthur John Fludyer, bart., of Ayston Hall, Uppingham, is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is silurian; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 1,254 acres of land and 7 of water; rateable value, �1,057; the population in 1891 was 135.

Letters through Usk, arrive at 8 a.m.
Usk, 2� miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
Wall Letter Box, at Llancays, cleared at 5.10 p.m. week days only.

The children of this parish attend the school at Bettws-Newydd for the joint parishes of Bettws-Newydd, Trostrey & Kemeys-Commander

COMMERCIAL ONLY
Cadwallader Rashleigh Marchant, farmer, Neath
Harris Theresa (Mrs.), farmer, Trostrey common
Holloway Richard, farmer, Trostrey common
James Thomas, farmer, Trostrey common
James William, farmer, Trostrey common
Jones Thomas, farmer, Russell's hill
Marfell William, farmer, Trostrey Court farm
Marfell & Poole, auctioneers, valuers & estate agents, Trostrey court
Parker John, farmer, Trostrey hill
Parker William Henry, water bailiff
Parry James, farmer, Berthlwyd
Price John, farmer, Redgate farm
Watkins Richard William, farmer, Little Trostrey