About Us

E.G.G.R.A.

About EGGRA
Warren William Lewis and Richard G Roynon formed the East Gwent Genealogy Research Agency (E.G.G.R.A.) several years ago. With Warren living in Pontypool and Richard inTalywain, we have a vast local knowledge of Family History for this particular area of East Gwent. We are not a business and act as a non-profit making concern to gather funds for our two supported charities. There is no actual fee or hourly charge for the service we offer. All we ask is you make a donation to cover our expenses that will include an amount for the FRIENDS OF VARTEG GRAVEYARD and CANCER RESEARCH UK.

Our vast database of Genealogy material entails the Eastern Valley of Gwent - Blaenavon in the North to Cwmbran in the South.

About Family History
Have you ever wondered what your great grandfather did for a living, where he worked and went to school?
Did you realise your great grandmother may have worked as a servant in the Pontypool area for a select family, or even had a small business and had servants of her own. That they married in the Parish Church at Trevethin and all the family and friends wedding gifts were listed in the Free Press of Monmouthshire newspaper for the neighbours to envy? These are some of the interesting facts we may be able to trace for you in your Family History quest.

If you would like us to perform a search for your ancestors and provide you with a print out of the results, which includes a family tree, then please contact either Warren or Richard by snail-mail or E-Mail.

Warren Wm Lewis, The Phaeton, Broadway, Pontypool, Gwent, NP4 6HW. E Mail Gwentree74@aol.com.

Richard G Roynon, 20 Benton Villas, Woodlands, Talywain, Pontypool, Gwent, NP4 7LD. E Mail RRoynon@aol.com

Our Family History Archives
E.G.G.R.A. has amassed over 900,000 individuals in their genealogy databases. These include, Non Conformist and Anglican records of Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials and Deaths; Monumental Inscriptions; School Admissions; Workhouse Records; Temperence Lists; Obituaries, Newspaper Archives; Photographs relating to the Eastern Valley and the Roman Catholic Baptisms and Marriages of St Albans, Pontypool. The above total of individuals does not include the Census records which we hold of the Eastern Valley of Gwent, namely 1841 to 1901, most of which we have transcribed ourselves. See our archives section for more information.

We are responsible for the transcribing of several unique records one of which is the Births, Marriages and Deaths from the local newspaper The Free Press of Monmouthshire. The paper began in 1859 and is still in print today. E.G.G.R.A. holds the database for this archive from 1859 to 1940 (1941 in progress). To help local genealogists, E.G.G.R.A. has donated a copy of this database to the County Records Office at Cwmbran. Another of the important databases that we feel is of importance to those concerened with genealogy is School Admission Records. We have large databases of all the schools in this area of Gwent apart from several Roman Catholic Schools that we are in the process of acquiring for the County Records Office, for whom we are Record Agents.