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Thank you everyone, especially Forfarian for your help with this.  I spent most of yesterday evening researching Mina. Thanks for all the wee tips, and some great finds.

I had  seen the Wilhemina H Thomson in Premnay previously,  and wasn`t sure if she was/is the right one (She would have been my Great Granny). I`m now pretty sure this is the same person.

Why she started to use the name Mina in official documents from the time of her marriage is a mystery, although there may be a child involved somewhere.......maybe a Donald, who emigrated to America, or died in WW1?

I posted in this forum as she had a  Montrose address at the time of her marriage. But I was told as  a child that she was from Kincardineshire, but Aberdeenshire is close enough.......but then I traced her half sister, Maggie Mitchell and find her in Banchory ! BINGO !

I`m of the opinion that Maggie Mitchell`s son Frederick Brewster (1901 census) is the  Frederick Skene on Mina`s  marriage certificate. This as Maggie Mitchell married a William Skene.

Incidentally, William Skene was born in Culsalmond, where Charles John McIntosh Hay was married for the 1st time.   It seems that William had later lived in Premnay at the same time as Maggie and Mina.

I have since found Mina in the 1911 census, for  Bognor Regis, Surrey. Whereby she is a cook in the service of a retired Lt Colonel. There was tale she had been cook for Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, but this may just be a tall tale.

My mission now is to try and trace Ann Thomson - Mina`s mother.

Thanks again.

She was married on 24 June 1911.

Married at Burnetts Hall, Montrose. Mina is described as a domestic servant, spinster aged 30 of 20 Victoria Street, Montrose. The daughter of Annie Thomson, domestic servant.Deceased.

She married ,Charles John McIntosh Hay, gamekeeper, widower aged 29, of Caldwell Cottage , Edzell. The son of Janet McHardy Hay, domestic servant. Deceased.

Thanks.

Absolutely fantastic.  Many thanks to all.

I`m pretty certain these are all the same Zacariah. I know he was a Wheelwright / Joiner as was his son David - My Gt Taid. 

I believe that Zacariah`s first wife passed away and he married again, someitme before 1891.

Brigidmac, please contact me if you think we have a connection.

Cofion

Hanes Teulu,

Thank you for your welcome and the info you have supplied. There are some very interesting articles about the Cefnfaes Vaults.

This one, please click on the link was of particular interest and was from the time my family ran the pub.   https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3603003/3603009/68/cefnfaes%20vaults

This links in very well with a tale that my great nain stood up in a Temperance Meeting in the village and accused some of those present of being hypocrites. This as they were claiming to be tea total, but were coming to the back door of the pub for their beer.   

I understand that due to the hypocritical attitude of some of the tea totallers, and that of members for the chapel the family attended, that they (Isaac`s family) joined the Anglican church. I`m not sure which one but probably  Christ Church of Glanogwen.   

I`m on a mission to visit the cemeteries as soon as I can. I went to Glanogwen a few years ago but couldn`t find what I was looking for.

I believe Isaac was still at the Cefnfaes in 1900. This as there is an article in "Y Werin" ON 29th March 1900 saying that his son, Alfred had just retuned from the Boer War and had server under General Buller.  It seems that Alfred married a Jennie Roberts from Caernarfon on 17th May 1900.

In the 1901 Census, Isaac is a visitor at the Eagles Hotel, Caernarfon. This run by his son-in-law and daughter. On the staff as a barmaid is my great nain.    Isaac`s wife and Alfred are both at the Cefnfaes Vaults. Alfred is described as married, private in Royal Welsh Fusiliers, but wife is not on census.

By the 1911 census Isaac is no longer with us. His widow, Alfred and several other family members now live at4 Mostyn Terrace. Alfred is a quarryman, single and no mention of his wife ?   My great nain married in 1902, and in 1911 they were living at 13 Coetmor Mount. My great Taid, being William Henry Jones, Quarryman.   During the  "Great Strike" he had found work in South Wales, and Liverpool.

The Cefnfaes appears to have been closed due to the owner, Thomas Morris Jones going bankrupt in 1903. This as a result of the Great Strike.

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3654125/3654131/39/cefnfaes%20vaults

Many thanks again, and hope you kind the above of some interest.

Cofion gorau.