St. David's Day

A pleasant reminder to all those Welsh or of Welsh lineage.....ST DAVIDS (DEWI) DAY Tuesday, March 1st. :wavey:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_David's_Day

 

Did you know that the whole tract of land Pa, Del & parts of NJ were supposed to be dedicated to the Welsh people as William Penn's grandfather was Welsh & many of them shunned the Kings Religion in favor of Non-conformity faiths? Penn wanted to name the tract of land Welsh Land but London would not allow it & told him to name it Pennsylvania. My own ancestors, the Llywelyn's, Garretts, Davis / Davies, Jones's etc began coming here & populated all of Pennsylvania & parts of Delaware & W. Va as Baptists & Welsh Calvinist Methodists. I'm told that they built their Churches before their own homes & that they considered it the height of hospitality to serve in one another's churches in order to get them established. I have an ancestor who was an itenerent preacher who worked 6 days in the mines & on sabbath walked 20-30 miles officiating at all the Welsh churches in the area....He could both read & speak both Welsh & English so was in demand as a translator.