Professional help - South Wales aristos

[Angelofmycoins]

Where should I look for professional help untangling some relatives from the 1700s in South Wales.
The small church records are online and I've found someone born 1720s , but I want to go further back and see if I can trace his father.
It's a well known Welsh family, connected to the Howard family (of Ann Boleyn fame, who is my main target to see if I'm related) = the Cecils.
I did my 23andme DNA and I have some living relatives of the name Cecil as well, albeit they haven't replied to my messages.

Where could i engage someone to help me/ see what can be done. I'll travel to Wales if necessary as i also have other branches of the family there I can stay with.

Where exactly in South Wales? Possibly try Glamorgan Archives - they cover Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff

I was about the say the same, if you can narrow down the place then we can help more.

Thabks. So church is in Caerleon, historic county of Monmouthshire.... I think it's now Newport.

And also have ancestors at Dyrffyn House which is Glamorgan...

I’d try Newport Council and Gwent Archives

Thanks, do you mean foe self research or is this where I can find expert help?

Yes Caerleon comes under the county borough of Newport (town of my illustrious birth actually!) I would start here: https://www.newport.gov.uk/our-city/see-and-do/libraries/local-and-family-history

Dyffryn (just the one 'r') is in the Vale, yes, so here's your starting point: https://glamarchives.gov.uk

Hope you find some fascinating stuff! My dearly departed Nana swore blind we were related to Dic Penderyn... one day I need to do the research and find out if there's any basis to that or if she was just being a bit 'twp'!

Oh I have some of the Dyrffyn House mob in my files. Not going very far back, mind you.

I'm not family. I was just researching someone on the fringes of the Bloomsbury group, and ended up mapping the family of Clive Bell.

Happy to share a few odds and ends if you like?

Yes I will pm you thabks

"I did my 23andme DNA and I have some living relatives of the name Cecil as well, albeit they haven't replied to my messages."

If I might suggest, I've found that Ancestry is usually a lot better than 23andme.

Although it does mean having to do another dna test with them (it's normally £79 but they do regular promotions at £59). You are likely to get a lot more dna matches and, also, it's a lot easier to trace people on a family tree in Ancestry.

That's a shame we couldn't quite link up our areas of research, @Angelofmycoins .

Lots of good luck for finding the folk you're after!

Thabks foe trying appreciate it

Thabks. I have got the raw data and uploaded it to gedmatch which uses data from all of them, so have access to ancestry ppl too

RQG - register of qualified genealogists. Look for someone with Wales experience. I can recommend someone personally if you'd like.

If the family continued in the male line, Burke's Peerage might help.