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- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
The parish of Hubberston, which includes a village of the same name, is located directly to the west of the larger town of Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, Wales on the north coast of the body of water also known as Milford Haven. It is now a district of the community of Milford Haven. Hakin was part of the parish of Hubberston, but has been a part of the urban area of Milford Haven since the beginning of the 20th century. Hubberston had a population of 2,390 inhabitants in 2001 and 2,313 in 2011 (UK census statistics). It is mainly residential in nature.
The village was built around the 13th century church, St David's. This now stands next to Hubberston green. By 1800, a mail coach was operating between London and Hubberston, arriving in the evening and returning the following day. Fort Hubberstone is a large battery located in the village. The fort was abandoned after World War I, but during World War II was in use once again as an air raid shelter and army camp for American military personnel.
Hubberston is separated from Milford Haven by Hubberston Pill, a once tidal estuary. Access is via Victoria Bridge, which is reached via the A4076 road through Milford Haven. The village is served by Milford Haven railway station.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Hubberston from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "HUBBERSTON, a village and a parish in Haverfordwest [registration] district, Pembroke[shire]. The village stands on a creek of Milford Haven, 1 mile W of Milford [railway] station; and carries on some trade in the export of corn, limestone, and coal.
- "The parish is partly within Milford borough; and it comprises 1,270 acres of land, and 610 of water. Post town: Milford Haven. Real property: £3,963; of which £235 are in gas works. Population in 1851: 1,040; in 1861: 1, 270. Houses: 242. Population of the part within Milford borough: 836. Houses: 162. An observatory, and the remains of Pill priory are a little E of the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. Davids. Value: £130. Patron: the Lord Chancellor. The church has some old stalls, and was recently in disrepair. Charities, £8"
Research Tips
- A 1900 Ordnance Survey map of the historic county of Pembrokeshire is available on the A Vision of Britain through Time website. This shows all the old parishes within their urban and rural districts. Large farms and estates are also marked. On the Haverfordwest Rural District page there is a sketchmap indicating the civil parishes of Haverfordwest Rural District as of 1935.
- Pembrokeshire Archives has a website with a list of their holdings, as well as historical notes on places in Pembrokeshire. Its address is Prendergast, Haverfordwest, SA61 2PE; Tel No: 01437 775456 or (+44)1437 775456 (out of UK), E-mail: record.office@pembrokeshire.gov.uk
- GENUKI has a page on each of the old counties of Wales and, under these counties, pages for each of the ecclesiastical parishes within the county. Information is gathered under a number of headings and the amount of information varies from parish to parish. Parish descriptions are based on a gazetteer dated 1835 and thus the emphasis is on ecclesiastical parishes. (Civil parishes were not yet established.) The submitter is very firm about his copyright. This should not stop anyone from reading the material.
- The GENUKI Pembrokeshire pages include, under Description and Travel close to the bottom of the page, a link "parish map" to a map website showing boundaries and settlements before 1850. On the linked page will be maps of several parishes located close to each other.
- GENUKI also provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area, but there is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date for every county.
- FreeBMD provides a link to a list of the civil registration districts for each Welsh county from 1837 to 1996. Civil registration districts changed with varying densities of population and improvements in communication. Most counties and unitary authorities now have only one district. The list helps with providing names for the registration districts listed in the FreeBMD index and also as a guide for where to look for census entries.
- The FamilySearch Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI and these have been prepared at a later date. The Wiki may look like Wikipedia but the information has been provided for family historians. There are tables of links between the parishes in the historic counties of Wales and their post-1996 counterparts. This is the only genealogical website found that provides this information universally; others are not as thorough.
- Some words in Welsh come up time and time again and you may want to know what they mean or how to pronounce them. For example,
"Eglwys" is a church and the prefix "Llan" is a parish.
"w" and "y" are used as vowels in Welsh.
"Ll" is pronounced either "cl" or "hl" or somewhere in between. "dd" sounds like "th".
The single letter "Y" is "the" and "Yn" means "in".
"uwch" means "above"; "isod" is "below" or "under";
"gwch" is "great", "ychydig" is "little";
"cwm" is a "valley".
- In both Welsh and English all these words are commonly used in place names in the UK. Place names are often hyphenated, or two words are combined into one. Entering your problem phrase into Google Search, including the term "meaning in Welsh", will lead you to Google's quick translation guide. I'm no authority; these are just things I have picked up while building up this gazetteer for WeRelate.
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