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The Brunning Family

Genealogical Information

Apart from my having been born in Mid-Wales, the Welsh connection comes from my wife who’s paternal ancestry came from Anglesey and Bangor in North Wales.  There is a strong link to the Church throughout the family history, with several ministers both with the  Calvanistic Methodist Church and the Church in Wales.

My wife’s grandfather was a vicar in St Georges super Ely, just outside Cardiff in South Wales for 30+ years.  He married a much younger girl from back home in Bangor who was the elder sister of his younger brother’s wife.  Their eldest son, Owen Celyn ROWLANDS was my wife’s father; he married a local girl whose father was from London!  Celyn was a Fire Officer and ended up moving to Newtown in Mid-Wales to take over control of the Montgomeryshire Division of the Denbigh and Montgomeryshire Fire Service.  He brought with him two daughters, the youngest being four years old and they lived just around the corner from us: being only a couple of years older we all played together until 15 years later I married the younger daughter and took her off to Suffolk where I was working.  There we started our own family and completed the circle back to the county where my family originally hailed from.

The Welsh history has been quite challenging to research because of the name changing procedures of the 18th and 19th centuries, which often led to confusion and frustration.

The Welsh Connection