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Messages - Trebrys

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Anglesey / Re: john a.mclean on s.s.clio training ship
« on: Monday 17 December 12 23:17 GMT (UK)  »
I've seen an article specifically on the Clio here somewhere....I'll scout around for you. It was written by the local historian based in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Vivian Parry Williams.

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Caernarvonshire / Re: Drowning in Ro-wen (Roewen)
« on: Monday 17 December 12 23:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there,

I've received some confirmation that there was a drowning and that it would have been......possibly....in the 1920's! The pond fed a nearby mill, I've been told, and it was dried up/emptied in the 1950's. My source said he'd get back to me after I'd put an article in the local Welsh language paper, but have not heard anything for a couple of months now.

Any help would be greatly and gratefully received.

Diolch.

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Caernarvonshire / Re: John Pritchard, Bethesda 1901
« on: Friday 23 November 12 00:32 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you once again for your kindness!

I know some headed just down the road from Poultney for Granville, NY........I have no real proof that he went to the States........it's just a mystery as to why he is not on the 1901 British census.

Thanks again.

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Caernarvonshire / Re: John Pritchard, Bethesda 1901
« on: Thursday 22 November 12 07:20 GMT (UK)  »
Now this is very intriguing........thank you both very much for your time!

I've been looking for this man for a while and he's just gone off the radar. Emigrating to the States was a last option for me as I just couldn't see him. His brother, Richard (and his wife Ann) apparently crossed the Atlantic in 1907 and after going to Newfoundland for a while, then Pennsylvania and NYC, settled in Poultney, Vermont where he died in 1948. I thought maybe that John had gone over first before returning to Wales.

Intriguing.........

Thank you very much.

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Wales / Re: Lloyd Hughes, postcard artist
« on: Monday 19 November 12 23:21 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for your care and attention!

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Anglesey / Re: Hughes, Henefail, Llaneugrad
« on: Monday 19 November 12 23:14 GMT (UK)  »
Once again.......very interesting and thank you VERY much for your care and attention, Wilcoxon!

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Anglesey / Re: Hughes, Henefail, Llaneugrad
« on: Monday 19 November 12 18:34 GMT (UK)  »
This is fantastic.......a trip to Môn beckons methinks!

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Wales / Lloyd Hughes, postcard artist
« on: Sunday 18 November 12 13:48 GMT (UK)  »
I have recently bought a couple of old postcards from the early 1900's drawn by someone called Lloyd Hughes.

Would anyone have any information about htis person? I know nothing at all about him!


Diolch yn fawr.

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Anglesey / Hughes, Henefail, Llaneugrad
« on: Sunday 18 November 12 13:45 GMT (UK)  »
I have just learnt that my great-grandfather, who was gold miner in the present day Ghana at the beginning of the last century, was born in a place called Llaneugrad.

His name was Hugh Hughes and he died of a tropical disease that he'd contracted when over in Africa. He died in Betws y Coed. The 1881 and 1891 censuses show that his father was a William Hughes who was a groom and coachman living at Henefail in Llaneugrad. I notice that there is a big house of some sort called Parciau near there on the census.........would I be right in assuming that he worked there, I wonder? And whose house was that place? Where exactly is Henefail in Llaneugrad? I can't find it on maps!

I know that William Hughes was coal carter in Bethesda in 1911..........and that's the last I hear of him.

Would anyone have any information on some of the questions asked?

Diolch yn fawr.

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