RN #163 Oswestry - Wat's Dyke

Oswestry was a central location to many of my JONES family tree.  Early on, it was part of the Welsh Kingdom of Powys Vadog.  The "Lordship of Oswesry" was in the "Hundred of Oswestry" and considered a borough, a market town, and a parish.

Returns of the Clergy Defence Association - (Catalogue Ref. 177)
     Leighton family of Sweeney Hall, Shropshire
Maps and charts of area
Oswestry (Docese of St. Asaph)
Calendar of Patent Rolls,  1328 AD, "Oswaldestre"
John Trevor, lands in town
Hundred of Oswestry
Oswestry - town properties
     Venables family of Shropshire
     Lovett family of Henlle Hall, Shropshire
     Hanmer family of Pentrepant, Shropshire
     Halston estate, muniments of title
     Price-Davies family of Marrington Hall, Chirbury, Shropshire
     Mostyn Owen family of Rednal, Shropshire
     Lloyd family of Leaton Knolls, Shropshire
Oswestry, Town Properties (Catalogue Ref. 484)
     1516-1662 AD [abstracted]
Lord of Bromfield (charts)
Welsh Probate Records, Diocese of St. Asaph (Catalogure Ref. SA)
Wat's Dyke

For a general discussion see: http://welshgenealogy.blogspot.com  titled "Maes Usswalt - Maserfield- Oswestry",  dated Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012

For Wat's Dyke see: http://welshgenealogy.blogspot.com  titled "Wat's Dyke" dated Tuesday, Oct., 25, 2011

RN #4 Overview of Pre-history (Wales)

The content of this notebook.  A collection of my notes on various topics dealing with Welsh prehistory and a rough chronology.

Geologic Time and Formations.
Personal notes on Mesolithic sites.
Old Oswestry (hill-fort).
Notes on hill forts Wales.
Notes on Celtic race.
Britain in the Iron Age.
Pytheas, Greek geographer (330 BC)
Notes on Roman Britain.
State of the Country (Wales) in the Sixth Century, and its History Prior to A.D. 560.
Notes by time periods 648 A.D. - 1894.
Key to Regal Years with Chronological Index to Statutes Cited in The Text - From: Guide to Public Record Office, Great Britain.

For a discussion of Welsh genealogy see:  http://welshgenealogy.blogspot.com .