Llanfihangel Llantarnam, Monmouthshire

The KK family tree were in Gloucestershire (just north of the Forest of Dean) and then Worcestershire before part of the family moved to Llanvihangel Llantarnam, Monmouthshire, South Wales and others to the USA (Philadelphia and elsewhere).

LLANVIHANGEL LLANTARNAM, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Usk, county Monmouth, 3 miles N. of Newport. Caerleon is its post town. It is situated on the Afon Llwyd, a tributary of the river Usk. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Llandaff, value £108. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The endowments belonging to the parish produce nearly £30 per annum. Llanvihangel House stands upon the site of, and is partly built from, the ruins of a Cistercian abbey that formerly stood here.
Source: The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)

The town of Llanfihangel Llantarnam is now a suburb of Cwmbran, which was created in 1949 under the 1946 New Towns' Act. Cwmbran had originally been in the parish of Llanfihangel Llantarnam. A farm had existed of that name, then later it was the site of a tinplate works, coal and iron ore mining and brickworks. Little evidence remains of the industrial past or of the old house that once occupied Grange Road.