Quote Originally Posted by neloon View Post
** Her maiden surname was “Prodgers” i.e. originally Ap Rodgers. “Ap” is the p-Celtic equivalent of Irish “Ob” or “O’” roughly = Mac/Nic in Scots Gaelic. So names like “Prichard”, "Preece”, "Price" “Parry”, “Bowen” etc. are all of Welsh origin. Thought you might not know that.
Nice pictures & thanks for sharing the background.

I have some distant ancestors that were Preece's (my 5th great grandmother on Dad's side), so I was aware of the Welsh to English transliteration from ap Rees to Prees, etc. I thought the Welsh 'ap' was more or less equivalent to the Gaelic (Irish or Scots) M'/Mc/Mac, meaning 'son of' as opposed to the Irish O' meaning 'grandson of'. But I'm no great scholar of linguistics either. Neither do I know of the female equivalents, aside from 'nic' meaning 'daughter of', following the maternal line.