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Robert Davies (Gwilym Elwy) is my great Grandfather. My Grandmother (fathers side) was another Jane Davies. I know he was married twice, grave stone is probably correct. Family story tells that he won an eisteddfod with a poem which was a eulogy to his late wife. We were sent a copy of this by my father's cousin who lived in Herefordshire. It was written in Welsh untainted by the 20th century. Beautiful and complex, it was handed to a family friend to be translated. She sadly and suddenly died the following day - nobody had the heart to ask for it back! Don't know if the eisteddfod was a local one or national. A request to a friend at Colwyn Bay Library failed to find any information on him. The house he lived at in Llanfair is now called Ty Bardd (Poet's House).