Pobl y Paith / People of the Prairie: The Welsh in Nebraska
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- Welsh immigrants arrived in Nebraska in the mid-nineteenth century, among the many settlers and homesteaders who sought a new life on the Great Plains. Like other immigrants, they brought their own, Celtic language, deeply-rooted faith and cultural traditions. Pobl y Paith/People of the Prairie tells the story of Nebraska's Welsh settlers through historical photographs and interviews with their descendants who keep the memory of their ancestors, and America's Welsh heritage, alive today.
Also available on Blu-Ray & DVD for museums, libraries and Welsh-American cultural events and societies.
www.welshheritageproject.org/
Great documentary.We r from North East India.Welsh missionaries saved our tribe 4rm opium addiction.Our church Presbyterian Church of India was previously known as the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Mission. To this day we still sing Welsh hymns translated in our languages like
Cwm Rhondda,Diniweikydd,Calon Lan,Gwahodiad etc. My geat grandpa converted during the Welsh Revival n became a minister. Today PCI has about 1.7 million adherents.
That's an interesting and good story. Usually any influence by white British colonials is seen as negative. From a Welsh descendant in Australia.
So, you sing Welsh hymns in Native American? I don’t suppose it’s on TH-cam, is it?
A lovely story anyway, diolch yn fawr. 🍻
Wonderful testimony!
@@Inquisitor_Vex- you might be confusing American India with Asian India
@@daievans1955 Ha! I definitely was. I must’ve read “Indiana” and ran with it.
I guess it would be in Urdu or Pashtun or something?
I relate so much, but I am a German-American with deep roots in Pennsylvania, Albany New York, and Missouri. I do not think I am better than anyone, just grateful for childhood and German and German-American neighbors and culture. My father-in-law was a great Welsh-American (surname Evans) Cymru am byth!!
As a proud Welshman this was wonderful and ever so slightly surreal to see.
I’m Welsh from Llanelli living in Omaha, I’ve seen the welsh dragon sign for Wymore just never stopped. Will definitely have to make a trip out there.
Hello From anglesey north wales🏴
I only knew of the Celtic push from the north to the south and settled in Kentucky, Tennessee, northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. They were a vast mixture of Scot, Irish and Welsh who all followed each other to those locations. And being a Welsh American myself it was very entertaining and interesting to learn of the Northern Welsh......Nice video. Oh yeah my user name "Scott Free" was given to myself after being divorced........I'm actually Welsh decent.
2:50 the harp tune is "Hiraeth," "Longing," a feeling that dogged the emigrants as they remembered their homeland.
Cariad fawr o Cymru De teulu! Much love from South Wales family!
I'm Welsh, I'm from Swansea and I love this video, diolch yn fawr. Bendith Duw
The town of Malad in Idaho is almost completely Welsh. That's where my grandfather came from.
Greetings from Australia. I have Welsh ancestors on Ancestry who converted to the Mormon religion during the religious revival movement in Wales the 1800s, and emigrated to Idaho and near Malad. They are on my maternal side and their surname was Rees. The problem is that I have yet to find out HOW we are related. I'm 73% Welsh ethnicity and my parents ang grandparents were Welsh.
Diolch!! I went to Wales a few years ago, and I never wanted to leave.. I felt as if I was finally home, in my heart!!
Where are you from then? The US?
That'll be the hiraeth, it gets you.
@@High_Lord_Of_Terra Beat me to it.
You’re welcome back anytime.
wow i really did not know about nebraska,i knew there were welsh in pennsylvania,you learn some thing new every day
pennyslvania was going to be called new wales. its named after henry penn i think
The narrator of this excellent documentary is Robert Humphries. He is now the Director of the Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre in Wymore, Nebraska. Robert was interviewed in December 2023 about the Centre and the surrounding history of the Welsh in the Great Plains. You can see this video here: th-cam.com/video/pNsFlzz2QO8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Xt7hpNwUIYD7V8mN
From Cardiff.. We love USA 🙏
My Great Grandfather came to SE Nebraska in 1886 and ended up as pastor of 3 churches… Crab Orchard, Vesta and another, one of which was always done in Welsh
From the Ellis family of Nebraska. Cyrus Ellis was a well digger there my father was born there. They were Quaker. Eighth great grandson of Rowland Ellis of Pennsylvania.
Hi Gary. My names Matt I'm from Cardiff in south Wales also belonging to the Ellis family.I'm looking to travel the states next year , would it possible to come and meet you, I'm very interested in talking with our Welsh/US cousins
I am Welsh born in the Rhondda Valley but now live in Belgium
Lovely to see my Nebraskan Williams family who came over to Bangor in North Wales in 2019 for our family reunion. Richard Williams was my great grandmother Eliza Sarah's brother as was Isaac Williams. My Taid was named Isaac and his brother was Richard. Living near Liverpool I spend lots of my time in the second hand book shops rescuing old Welsh history books which I'd love to pass to the Welsh Heritage Centre in Wymore. One is a dictionary listing all the Welsh dialect words from Bangor in the 1900s. I know they'll be treasured in Wymore.
This is so interesting to hear about the Welsh travelling so far and settling
Funny, I'm in Wisconsin. And about 10 miles up the road from us is the town of Wales. All the street signs and names are in the Welsh language. Also, in the southwestern portion of our state there happens to be a good sized Cornish community out that way. I know a lot of people with last names like Evans, Davis, Hughes, Llewellyn, Lloyd, etc.. up here as well. This was good to watch. Thanks for uploading this!
God Bless you all. Fantastic to see you all remember your Welsh roots,
Great little video, we loved it. We visit the USA quite a lot and are really interested in the Welsh community in America from the farmers to the miners. We used to live in a street in Porthcawl, South Wales called Philadelphia Road. Apparently named after someone who wanted to emigrate to Pennsylvania who decided to buy some land in the new docks in Porthcawl instead.
This is exactly what we need🌸
So very proud of all at the GPWHP and to have been a small part of it.
I actually enjoyed this! Didn't realise there was such a large Welsh community in some States!
I finally learned what the Welsh phrase for ' shut your mouth' meant. I could say the phrase in Welsh but never knew its meaning. When a child I had asked my Welsh father if he knew a bad Welsh word. I remembered he laughed and said his father would say (now that's the phrase in Welsh that I can say but not spell) to his horses when he was upset with them. I am so pleased to have that mystery solved. I belong to the Robert's family of Wisconsin, 1845 and the Richard's family of New York, 1845. Thank you for video.
Would that bad word be Cau Dy Gêg???🏴🏴🏴
Yes!
I am Welsh with great grandparents and my Taid, William and Catherine Jones from Llangevney and William Hughes from Brynsiencyn, Angelsey? I live near Utica, NY. CYMRU AM BYTH
I have Jones ancestors who immigrated to Colonial Virginia in the 1600s...father and son were Rectors at Bruton Parish Williamsburg
Spencer Cohorst has such a Welsh face - broad features and big blue eyes. You could have come off the street in Carmarthen!
Fantastic documentary - and what dedication from the people who run the museum and preserve artefacts, and are so honoured by their Welsh heritage ❤️🏴
I’m Welsh born and bred, great documentary this but one thing that absolutely annoys the hell out of us is seeing yanks who say they’re Welsh and then wander around in a “Scottish” kilt with a make believe tartan and worse, wear the damn kilt back to front. Stop it!
John Good the piper is also originally from Wales. He wears the kilt because he's a piper.
Also, all tartans are made up. They don't exist in nature.
Murió le US states have their own official Tartans. They’re no more made up then any other tartan pattern.
@@MathewDRhys good point
Ice - Wow, you sound bit angry there but...maybe you should direct your negativity to the Welsh Tarten Centre in Abertawe and the Mills that produce the material
Ice Andale - and btw referring to pobl like that as 'yanks' is bit rude/impolite..but maybe you're the sort if person who...(cwpla y brawddeg dy hunan)
Lovely documentary.
Helo sut mae from Ceri Jones in the Rhondda Valley, great content I knew there were a lot of Welsh communities in the US it's just the Irish and the Scottish seem to be more prominent and known about.
Can't remember were or when I heard this but there was a small town or village in the USA in the 1950's were all of senor citizens still spoke Welsh.
Gwych chware teg,,thoroughly enjoyed that well done
Good to see a Welsh Community living in Nebraska. Sad to see, no Indigenous Indians living there anymore. Shame as Welsh settlers and Indigenous Indians lived side by side. As a Welsh Man, just saying.
Thank you for this wonderful documentary.
Ellis family Welsh Quakers from Nebraska.
Stanley Owens at 10.28 my family Owens comes from Cardigan mostly Sth Wales, I’m from Australia.
My great grandparents came from Flintshire in Northern Wales. They settled in Wayne County Nebraska. They had built the Bethany Presbyterian Church south southwest of Carroll. I had heard (I don't know if it is true. ) the church was referred to as the Roberts Church. Alot of my kin are buried there. The Church no longer stands. Thats my 2 cents worth. I am trying to find more on the Roberts, my great grandfather married a woman with Roberts as a maiden name.
Some of these Welsh descendants have really beautiful blue-gray eyes! A Welsh trait?
Celt,as thats what we are.
Ah, my people 👍🏴
thanks for this
I always thought my last name, Williams, was changed to Williams at Ellis Island or something. As it turns out, the last name has been the family last name for 500 years, and straight from Wales. I even found my ancestor who made the trip across the Atlantic.
It seem to me that they don't seem to think that much about there ancestors from before the migration. as in they in they didn't talk much about what makes the welsh special which is a shame because its such a rich history. that being said i suppose this is only about the welsh in Nebraska so it kind of makes sense
When I was young I read that Jayne Mansfield came from Brynmawr. As this was just up the road from me in Gwent, South Wales I thought she was Welsh up until a couple of years ago. Turned out she was from Brynmawr, Pennsylvania. Duh.
I'm a Jones and most of my family were miners from Merthyr Tydfil south wales.
Helo, a bore da, from Scottsbluff!
This surprised me, I thought it was just my Danish ancestors out that way (Wisconsin and Iowa) and Germans ( in Wymore, NE) and a few eastern europeans that could make a tin and enameled onion domed building, new.
Charles alot of respect out here🧁
look at those ears! he's definitely welsh.
Stop being a racist, you Anglo-Saxon bastard.
I fkin cried..again.try to watch Paul Robeson singing the land of my father's.the translation may be wrong .still ...enjoy.and cry.lol.
Paul Robson, What an man. What a Voice.from Iris nee Griffihs., Surrounded by family names. Williams's Davies,Jones,Parry, struggling with some of the female side. Sure there will be duplications😊.Nos da.
Some of my ancestors- 3 brothers left Wales for America in the mid 1800s. They allegedly took with them the money from a family owned foundry leaving the remaining family bankrupt. They were supposed to have headed towards Atlanta.
Every time Jeb Stuart 🌸
I was just thinking about that Mr Jackman🧃
Madoc!!!
Madoc!!!
Those chapels look just like Welsh chapels.
Yeah right!!!, a wooden church in wales??? It would barely last 5 years...
There's a funny looper movie reference in there apologies Mr Jackman but it's not that all day there's machines being pulled out of barn
❤️🏴
Oh the badlands🌸
Sorry that is not the badlands. I'm a welsh American who lives in North Dakota. We have the badlands. There are also badlands in South Dakota. Please take a look at our state website to see the true badlands. My family is all over Northern Wales
Lovely documentary, I'm from Merthyr Tydfil but live in Abercynon s Wales.
Cymru 😎
I think the Welsh can claim a much earlier migration with Prince Madoc ,also his brother ,King Arthur II was killed there by unfriendly locals.
87% Welsh, Morris and Long families, Owensboro Kentucky,,,,
Mae'r treftadaeth Cymreig yn parhau yn llawer o lefydd yma yn yr UDA.
Are there any Cymraeg speaking communities?
Not really. Even though Celtic immigration was substantial form all groups English remained the dominant language even among them.
Welsh men didn't need much excuse to fight the English
Like yanks treated them any differently...
1:04 kilts have absolutely nothing to do with Wales. Just for accuracy
Welsch Wisconsin🌸
I can only assume I had Welsh ancestry. I had a 4th great grandfather and his middle name was actually "Welsh" and last name Kemp. He had dark curly hair and before coming to Michigan his family lived close to the Welch border. My grandfather Newton had red curly hair when he was young plus some of his ancestors surnames were Newton, Riggle, Wheelock, Ward, Larkin and Logan.
The days of shitesh are over🧃
Home of turkey pot pie🌸
My Last name is Reece (Rhrys).
I understand that name is Welsh.
Yes. I just heard that name is Welsh in a documentary on you tube
Very old I believe
Not quite!! Rhys is correct
Hi you guys remember half the time these probably won't read right🌸
My paternal grandfather's last name was Welch. I didn't know him very well but I understand he came from an orphanage in Nebraska. Apparently the name Welch has been used by people who came frome Wales.
I moved to the Missouri Ozarks about 6 months ago, and the other day I had someone ask me if I was Welsh, and said I look like a Welshman.
When all us said and done, if I turn out not to have Welsh blood after all, because I'm definitely Scottish and Irish, I'll always consider the Welsh my CelticGaelic kin.
Never Welch.Always Welsh!!!
Ashu
Gollup
I’m Welsh, born and bred. I’m ashamed. It wasn’t their land to take.
Well, boo hoo for you, then.
Rydym ni'n dathlu Dydd Dewi Sant pob blwyddyn yn Seattle.
Da iawn chi!
Tc
And when the cup cake killer his arrai
And that alone is tough they used to have starters now more less welsch American more
Welsh in the temperance movement---think about how different that is from the Irish and Scots, who were all about drinking!
Preserve this heritage. Do not let them interbreed with other races.
Please come back we need more welsh born people as we are trying to get an independent Wales back but too many English people live in Wales which is stopping us
You do realize these people are extremely anglicized right?
Good.
Theres worser to come than the english, in fact give it 5 year and you'll be begging to have more indigenous english instead... Be carefull what you wish for my granny always told me.
As another person has already commented , the biggest battle Wales will face is to retain any national Identity, strong national identities are being weakened all over europe.
The whole idea is to dilute nationalism/patriotism, you can see it happening before your eyes.
@@pauldurkee4764 exactly what the Commenter at the top dont realise is that indigenous white english are more closely related in DNA than the scots, the welsh is native english and vice versa we share the exact DNA of celt origin...
I can trace the Evans family and many others like Rees Roberts Thomas and Lewis STRAIGHT back to king Owain and prince Madoc!
Greetings from Australia. Oooh! I have Rees, Thomas and Lewis , and maybe Roberts in my Family Tree. Are you on Ancestry? I'm 73% Welsh ethnicity and all grandparents and some further back were Welsh. I'd love to know if I'm a descendant of Owain and Madoc.
Always a king or prince, never tom jones is it...
@@wor53lg50 I don't have any kings, princes etc. in my family tree. The closest any of my family have come to royalty is when my aunt met the late Queen Elizabeth 2nd.
@@wor53lg50 Also, as an afterthought to my last reply - Because the population of Wales was so contained in a small area and small in 'ye olde days' (and still is), genealogists state that probably most of the Welsh are related (and to Welsh royalty), therefore your tongue-in-cheek statement would be correct. I've saved my paper crown from the Christmas cracker and have recycled my children's cut-out castle and princess dress-ups, shields and swords. Bow before me, King WOR53L G and I, King Barnowl, bow before you !
@@barnowl5774 thats the spirit me boy.....glad there still manly men around, and not pussy wet drips...
Wo evil there's nothing to do🌸
Pttetefairs
Ffilm bach hyfryd.
My ancestor went to Pennsylvania he helped William Penn settle a community of Quakers he was the first governor of Pennsylvania Lord Thomas Lloyd. His son Marmaduke stayed in Wales and was killed by Oliver Cromwells men at the battle of Saint Fagans. I live less than 1 mile from the field on which he was killed over 300 years ago. I also found out Marmadukes son was a member of parliament and adviser to King Charles the II and we started Lloyds Bank. History is crazy I can't even get a loan at Lloyds for £1000 now.
I bank with Lloyds! Kinda cool know it was set up by a Welshman.
Perhaps he knew my ancestor, William Mead, an Englishman, who also sailed with William Penn to help set up PA
Hugh we could use more🧃