One house, 108 names: the Enwau register for Tŷ Mawr, Llandough
Why a Welsh farmhouse near Penarth is hard to trace in the archives, and a free register of every name the records use for it.
Tŷ Mawr, Ty-mawr, Great House, Cedfin, Cydfin, Ked Fen, Red Fen, Church Farm: one house in Llandough near Penarth, many names.
Anyone tracing a Welsh house through maps, deeds, censuses and newspapers meets the same problem: each record spells it its own way, or calls it something else entirely. Search for one form and you miss the rest.
Enwau gathers 108 of these names in one register. Each entry gives the form, its date, the source document and a short note, so a researcher can search the archives for every variant at once.
The first edition is free to read online: https://cedwyn.bucklerfamily.estate/go/ns-enwau-article/ebooks/enwau/
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