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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Cardiganshire => Topic started by: jillyg on Friday 07 June 13 07:30 BST (UK)
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I am new to Roots chat. I am searching my paternal Grandmothers ancestry.
She was born Pwllhai in 1895, to a William Llewelyn Jones and Elizabeth Davies.
I cant find them on the 1901 census.
I was told there my be a connection to the Gwbert Hotel and she gave roller skating lessons on the flat roof!
William was a medical assistant. can anyone help?
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Welcome to RootsChat! ;D
What was the name of your grandmother?
And I am having problems locating Pwllhai - where did you get this place name from?
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Thanks KGarrad, I was about to ask the same question. I am finding many William Llewelyn Jones's.
jillig, do you know when William & Elizabeth were married and if there were any siblings?
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Welcome to RootsChat! ;D
And I am having problems locating Pwllhai - where did you get this place name from?
I hope I am looking in the right place, I thought it was in or near Cardigan ???
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Think so!
Found a google reference to a market in Cardigan town, called Pwllhai.
There's also a Gwbert Hotel in Cardigan!
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My Grandmothers name was Myfanwy Gwendoline Howard nee Jones, Pwllhai is in Cardigan
She had Two brothers William (bill) and Herbert or albert.
I dont know when her parents were married,
I have been able to track down the other sides of my family ,but these are proving elusive.
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Do you have her birth certificate?
I have a feeling that her parents married after her birth?
There is no birth for a Myfanwy Jones, in Cardigan Registration District, in 1894, 1895 or 1896.
BUT there is a birth for a Myfanwy Davies! :o This is the only Myfanwy birth registered in Vardigan during that time.
March qtr 1894
Cardigan district vol 11b, page 4
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Oops Myfanwy was born on the 20 feb 1893in pwllhai cardigan .
Yes I do have a birth cert but have not been able to find marriage cert of parents.
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I have visited Cardigan several times and remember that Pwllhai is the lower part of the main street of shops running through the town . The Market Hall is located there.
I have just looked up the delicatessen , Nelsons, which I thought was in Pwllhai Have confirmed it is. The Post code is SA43 1JR . Hope that helps to locate your relative's area of birth. Is it possible that her parents were shop keepers ? Sandra
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It's possible, but William is a medical assistant, in myfanwys bith cert , she did tell me he was a doctor but I can find no record of this.
Also there is a memory of a hotel,pub, maybe on the Davies side. Thanks for you interest Jill
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Think so!
Found a google reference to a market in Cardigan town, called Pwllhai.
There's also a Gwbert Hotel in Cardigan!
Pwllhai is within Cardigan Town itself, along the riverbanks between the castle and the church (if I've got my bearings right)
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Going north from the bridge, one end of Pwllhai begins at the top of the high street on the right and meanders around eastwards a bit, crossing Morgan Street and down towards the river. There's a Pwllhai road sign on the Red Lion Pub.
The Cliff Hotel used to be the Gwbert Inn and it's got a flat roof so maybe that's where the roller skating took place.
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I think we have established where Pwllhai is. What I am trying to find is a family connection in the district to my grandmother Myfanwy Jones father was a doctor? Or medical assistant in Pwllhai
I cannot find the family on any census .
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I think we have established where Pwllhai is.
Sorry, it didn't look to me as though you had.... :-X
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I visited Cardigan some years ago and found Pwllhai ,before I started the family tree,
I think I must return and try to find out more from there,as I now live in Australia it takes some organizing.
Thank you for your help .Regards Jill
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Hi Jill,
I have found a death of a William Llewelyn Jones of Tuberculosis in 1909. If this is him, do you know when he was born. I am finding that William Llewelyn Jones is quite a common name. ???
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Welsh newspapers on line http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/home
If you search for "pwllhai" and limit your search to 1892 (use slider bar), there is an item in the Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard, 13 May 1892, that mentions a William Llewellyn Jones, an Elizabeth Davies and a Mary Tudor Davies
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Just returning to this thread!
You say Myfanwy was born in April 1893?
So I assume this is the birth?
March qtr 1893
Cardigan district vol 11b, page 8
Jones, Myfanwy Gwendoline
Or was it this one?
March qtr 1893
Cardigan district vol 11b, page 7
Jones, Gwladus Myfanwy
What was her father's name on the birth certificate?
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Myfanwy Gwendoline Jones ....so the first one.
Fathers name on birth cert William Llewellyn Jones
I am beginning to suspect her parents may not have been married , is this possible?
The article in the Cambrian news regarding a "domestic " at her Mothers house was 9months before my grandmother was born.mmmmh