Ferwig, Cardiganshire Genealogy

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History

Alternately spelle Verwick or Ferwig. "VERWIC (Y-VERWIG), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of TROEDYRAUR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 2 1/4miles (N.) from Cardigan, containing 439 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the coast of St. George's channel, is celebrated in the Welsh annals for the memorable and sanguinary resistance opposed by the natives to a body of invading Flemings, who had effected a landing on a part of the beach, called Traeth y Mount ; and in the desperate battle which ensued these invaders were defeated with dreadful carnage, and their dead bodies were strewn in heaps on the sands...." [From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833] For more information, see Verwick, Cardiganshire at genuki.org.uk

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