CAPE CAMBRIAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER ISSUE 48 MAY 2010

AGM: Mr Ian Jones: (H) 021 5577731 / Cell: 082772232 The 126th AGM, held on 12 May, was quite an News Letter: Mrs Thelma Jones ((H) 021 5577731 occasion! Wth a few changes, firsts & introductions. E/mail: [email protected] The new updated version of the Constitution was passed Mrs Pat Stephens: (H) 021 9825031(Cell):0832657657 unanimously by the members. One of the main changes E/mail: [email protected] was the new name of Cape Welsh Society for the WEB. Mrs Jilly Bird: (H) 021 4346146 The outgoing President reported back on the events of Mr Fred Bird: (H) 021 4346146 the past year. Mr David Stephens: (H) 021 9825031 A first was that the Presidency of the Society was passed from Father, Ian Jones, to daughter, Sian Erasmus (ferch Mr Peter Evans: (Cell) 0826502025 Ianto) (read column on Welsh Surnames). Sian has been Was it the lure of the delicious Faggots & Peas (well a committee member for the past 5 years & a member done Pat & Jilly) or the Welshcakes (well done Sue) that since 1983 her teenage years. New office Bearers were brought the masses out (50 people- a record) to join the also nominated & accepted positions: evening events. With the introduction of a Vice Chairman position - Carl The new committee have already held their first meeting Williams. Carl hails from Ebbw Vale & joined the & are planning the way forward for the Welsh Society society last year. for 2010. The position of Secretary, filled for many years by Pat Please support the RUBGY this weekend & Trivia & Stephens, was handed over to her daughter Sarah th Grub Evening on the 6 August. We look forward to Stephens. Sarah also having been part of the society for seeing you there!! many years. Sian Ferch Ianto Treasurer: Sue Hooks remains at the reins, thank you President Sue. Membership Secretary: went to Jacky Jones, who joined the committee last year & has already had great input on Membership numbers, data base & Future Events communication. Saturday 5th June: V’s SA Rugby. Time from Committee Members: We are honoured that most of the 15h30, Kick off: 16h00 at the Melkboss Country Club. committee elected to stay on for 2010. The Ex President Steak rolls will be on sale, cheap cash bar facilities & wife, Ex Secretary & Husband will also remain as available. Kids welcome (kids room & play area). Wear committee members. your RED!! New Committee: Friday 6th August: Trivia & Grub Evening. Venue: Mrs Sian Erasmus (082904082) President The Goodwood Sports Clubs. Time & further details to [email protected] be advised. Watch this space. Carl Williams (0828754391) Vice President The Membership Secretary will be available for 2010 [email protected] Subs at all events Ms Sarah Stephens ( 083 2276034 ) Secretary [email protected] Y Gonglen Gymraeg – Welsh Surnames: Mrs Sue Hooks: (0796944222) Treasurer [email protected] When Edward I occupied Wales in 1282, he conquered a Ms Jacky Jones (083 9948 755) Membership Secretary people without surnames! Instead, everyone was [email protected] generally known by their first name plus either their father’s name – the patronymic system – or some Members: nickname derived from a personal attribute, their place Rev Sarah Rowland- Jones: (H) 021 7155245 of residence, or their occupation, or some other (Cell) 0828562082 distinguishing feature. Informally, the latter practice is E Mail: [email protected] still fairly widespread: the just-retired Vicar of Meliden in N Wales, a Revd Jones, was always known (and used Welsh Sport Speaker Needed: to answer the phone) as ‘David Meliden’, and my Hot off the Press -We were contacted in the week by Mum’s sister used for fun to call my Dad, another David Radio Cmryu News, via the old web site, by Gethin Jones and a water engineer, ‘Dai Sewer’. Morris Williams of Bangor; looking to make contact with Welsh speaking people living in Cape Town, to But it is the patronymic system that largely gave rise to talk on radio about the world cup. If anyone has any today’s fairly small range of Welsh surnames – derived suggestions please give us a call. from a range of first names that was similarly small, reflecting given biblical baptismal names and a few traditional Welsh names. Dafydd son of Rhys would be Choir Corner: known as Dafydd ap Rhys. Particularly after the 1536 th Act of Union, which required official documentation in AGM held on Tuesday 25 May. The following were Wales to be made in English, names were recorded in elected as the Ex co members for 2010. the English fashion, and this would become David Rees Chairman: Freddie Ahearn or Prees or Price. In the same way ‘son of David / ap Vice Chairman: Mike Atkins. Dafydd’ became Davies; ‘son of / ap William’ became Treasurer: John Brand. Williams, and ‘son of John / ap Ieuan’ became Jones, Choir Stage Manager: J Horsfall. Evans, or even Bevan. Section Leaders: Messrs R Yarlett, B Van Neikerk M Conners & F Lashmar (who also retains his What of daughters? The Welsh is ‘ferch’. Thus, at our curatorship of the choir library). AGM, our retiring President should have called his Sandy Ahearn remains as Secretary. incoming successor ‘Sian ferch Ianto’, and not ‘ap The PRO position remains unfilled. Jones’. But Huw would rightly be called ‘ap Ianto’. The choir performed at 3 venues during May: As for the connection between Erasmus and Wales, I 8 May: Celtic/Gaelic dinner/dance at Kelvin Grove. will write on that another day … 22 May: Ceres Lions, Prince Alfred Hamlet, and in the Sarah ferch Dafydd ap Evan Cribbin (ie my father’s N G Kerk on the Sunday morning. father was called Evan [Jones, again] from Cribbin, in 27 May: Cle du Retirement Village. Carmarthenshire) The choir is embarking on a large fund raising drive in PS if you want to know more, there’s an interesting an effort to subsidize costs for the choristers on their Wikipedia page with lots of links, at visit to the Albert Hall in 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_surnames The CD of the City hall Concert where the choir shared the stage with the Melody Lions choir is now available Rev. Sarah Rowland-Jones and can be purchased from Sandy: Tel (021 981 3205).

Upcoming Concerts Wales – Sport: 4 June: Rosebank Methodist Church 18 June: Anchusa Retirement Home, Meadow ridge. Welsh Soccer Lament: 21 August: CWC in Concert City hall. (Festival of City came so close to putting the nation with Song) Several soloists will also perform. at least one team up into the Premier Division for Mike Atkins next season – they needed to beat Blackpool last week to get promoted to a premier spot but EDITOR: THELMA JONES unfortunately they lost 3 – 2. TEL/FAX: 021 557 7731 E/mail: [email protected] Welsh Rugby: Submissions/suggestions for future Newsletters are welcome. 3 stars will be missing the Cardiff encounter against the Springboks this Saturday – Prop , Flanker and start Utility Back – but Wales still feel confident against a kind of experimental Bok side full of UK based stars such as Butch James and Sean De Villiers etc. all contenders for next year’s World Cup – should be exciting and nice of Peter De Villiers to “give us a chance” (tidy). We all meet as Taffs at the Melkbos Country Club – wear your red (anywhere) meet before kick-off at 16:00 – Steak and Sausage rolls on sale – also cash bar. There is also a children’s play area.