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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Anglesey => Topic started by: the raven on Saturday 07 January 12 17:28 GMT (UK)
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help please my welsh is not the best so can any kind person translate the following for me please
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Can't do all of this as have misplace my welsh dictionary and some words indistinct btu here goes::-
Here is buried John Griffiths of Plas LLanfair who died on the 29th may in the year 1798 aged ? and also John Griffiths, his wife and/or son Mrs Griffiths Grifiths who died March 27th 1820.His age was 1 year 5 months. then a verse Ioan was the baby of my life
Lost Forever
worst day ever???
and very short was his life.
Very loose translation but think this is the gist of it
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many thanks gilly j . its very helpful
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Can't do all of this as have misplace my welsh dictionary and some words indistinct btu here goes::-
Here is buried John Griffiths of Plas LLanfair who died on the 29th may in the year 1798 aged ? and also John Griffiths, his wife and/or son Mrs Griffiths Grifiths who died March 27th 1820.His age was 1 year 5 months. then a verse Ioan was the baby of my life
Lost Forever
worst day ever???
and very short was his life.
Very loose translation but think this is the gist of it
found an online translation thing and the word eiwyr turns out to be grandson ,
so to me it now reads the same as yours but with and also john griffiths his grandson son of griffith griffiths
does that make sense
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the date for his death looks more like 1826 than 1820 ,as i have now found a record for the christening/baptism for the grandson ( dec 1824 ) which would tie in with the 15 months of his young age
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Very minor point!
"Eiwyr" is two words "ei wyr". You are correct - it translates as "his grandson".
"Ei wyres" would be "his granddaughter".
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I'm also interested in this grave and took some photos of it last summer. The missing age for John Griffiths (grandfather) is 45 and your translation is correct, the other person buried here is John Griffiths, his grandson, the son of Griffith Griffiths, who died 27th March 1826, a year and 5 months old.