Old ways to new ways can be difficult for those who are steeped in the old. Seeing how my Jones surname family resided successfully at Llwyn-Ynn for the next century to come, they somehow managed to keep the home fires burning.
Wool and wine seemed to be an important trade issue and, Seward states that "...English wool, leather, resin, and salt." (p. 24) were all the rave across that Channel. My family would have been involved with all these trade items.
Here is a list of my great...great grandfathers living at this time. Note that the maternal sides are named and, their townlands are noted. At times down the road, these townlands often became a helpful clue while climbing among all the branches.
Wow again, and again, what circumstances they must have faced.Seward D., The Hundred Years War - The English In France 1337-1453, Penguin Books, London, 1978.
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