Sunday, 10 June 2007

Donny Osmond Traces His Welsh Roots


"The Seventies teen idol visited Merthyr in 2004 to search for his roots with the help of BBC Wales."

"When international superstar Donny Osmond told BBC Radio Wales' Nicola Heywood-Thomas live on air that he thought he had Welsh ancestry, the ears of archivists in Wales started buzzing with excitement."

"It didn't take long for tongues to start wagging too, as the experts set about the search to find out if it could be true."

"It turns out Donny was right - the Osmond family can be traced back to Merthyr Tydfil as far back as 1585."

Read more coverage of Donny Osmond in Wales by the BBC, here:

Gyda bob hwyl i bawb, Mark

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Osmonds must be welsh on their mother's side. The George Osmond who converted to mormonism moved to the US from Hackney suburb in the 1850's along with his first wife who was also an English convert. As a mormon polygamist he at mid-life ( in the 1880's)took a second younger wife who was a scandanavian convert. The Osmonds are descendents of this union.

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