| The entrance to the Churchyard
is left of picture as is a small lane leading to the old schoolroom which
has fallen out of use. The house at centre is the Post Office and used
to be the village pub.
(This photo taken in summer of 1998) |
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| The Parish Church of the Parish of Merthyr
Cynog. We located about four Prosser burials here. To the right of the
door a memorial to a Thomas Prosser of Ty Du is positioned high up on the
church wall.
(This photo taken in summer of 1998) |
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| After further research I had located the
farms occupied by Prosser families in 1841. Enquiries at the village led
us to this Calvinistic Methodist Chapel located just to the East of the
village in the valley of the Yscir Fawr.
(This photo taken in July 2000) |
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| This is the view from the Chapel burial
ground looking across the valley of the Yscir fawr towards the farm - Bwlch
Y Dduw Allt. A Prosser family lived here in
1841; is it a coincidence that one of my grandmother`s brothers named his
house in Dyffryn, Neath the same name in the early 1900`s?
(This photo taken in July 2000) |
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| This is the view from the Chapel burial
ground looking up the valley. The hills to the North form part of the Eppynt
Artillery range.
(This photo taken in July 2000) |
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| This is the view from the Chapel burial
ground looking to the left side of the valley. The farmhouse is Ty Du where
again Prosser families lived. Marge & George Solan my cousins from
Ohio are shown, Marge is a great granddaughter of Rees Joshua Prosser who
emigrated in 1862.
(This photo taken in July 2000) |
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| On the road back to Brecon Town from
Merthyr Cynog; the peaks in the distance are the Brecon Beacons.
(This photo taken in summer of 1998) |
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