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Yes, dathai. Those are the records I have so far for these guys. aghadower, I was not aware of this collection so thank you for the link. I've started slowly going through the scanned images but have a lot of work to do.

Id say the first is probably late 1930s. I'm just going off of her clothes, hair and the general look of the photograph (stark contrast and that ratio strike me as similar to other photos I've seen from the '30s).  The latter two I'd say were taken in the 1940s. As another poster pointed out, I believe the car in the second photograph is much more 1940's style. Additionally, the woman looks quite a bit older around the eyes. Also some facial drooping. As for the third photo, it also strikes me as 1940s, though I'm genuinely unsure where it falls concerning the other two photos.

I think China's estimate is about spot on. The woman's whole look is very "Gibson Girl" (hair, high waist line), which fell out of favor at the start of WWI. It very well could be an American photograph. It's really hard to tell without a stamp or some photographer information.

That said, this raises a curious question for me. Did English women do the whole "Gibson Girl" look as well or was that strictly an American thing?

Thanks, guys, for the leads. I’m still sorting through the stuff you all posted.

Sorry about that, I didn’t know there was more than one Morfa Bychan.  The 1911 census lists Annie’s birth place as “Morfa Bychan, Caernarvonshire”. John’s is listed as “Pentre, Glamorgan.” The son “John Emrys Jones” on the 1911 census is Rev. John Emrys-Jones. Not sure when it started, but he didn’t use Emrys as a middle name but part of a double-barrelled surname his wife adopted and his children inherited.  He is listed as “John Emrys-Jones” and his wife as “Helen Marise Emrys-Jones” in the England & Wales Death Index. His children are still alive.

I don’t know if Ceridwen ever used the surname Emrys-Jones legally though. In the England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005 for her first marriage to a man named Kenneth L’esty, she is listed as “Ceridwen” under the section for the surname Jones. She was still Lesty when she came to America in 1947, but her second marriage shortly after her arrival lists her parents as “John Jones” and “Ann Jones” (note this spot is supposed to list the mother’s maiden name). Her American death certificate lists her parents as “John Emrys” and “Ann Jones”, but I think this was a mistake. Double-barrelled names were not very common at all in America and I just figured this was a clerical error. Ceridwen’s obituary lists her parents as John and Ann Emrys Jones if I recall correctly (no hyphen).  Both John and Ceridwen’s sons recall the grandparents as “John and Ann Jones”I believe they lived again in Pentre during at least the 1940s. Neither one died until sometime after the 40s.

There is something strange to the whole mess, however, as nobody’s really been able to track down anything further about John and Ann at all, so I am beginning to wonder if the surnames were actually switched or something? Maybe it was John Emrys and Ann Jones? Or maybe they were both Jones and the Emrys bit came in somehow else. The 1905 Wandsworth marriage is really interesting because the note I have saved from the England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 for Ceridwen indicates she was born in Wandsworth in 1907.