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Caernarvonshire / Re: Henry Jones 1st ship builder of Portmadog born 1782 died 1861
« on: Tuesday 27 August 19 01:46 BST (UK)  »
No, I'm not. I've only just got into investigating beyond what I've known for decades – largely because I was at a loose end in N Wales while my beloved was at a conference in Bangor.

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Caernarvonshire / Re: Henry Jones 1st ship builder of Portmadog born 1782 died 1861
« on: Tuesday 27 August 19 01:06 BST (UK)  »
Sorry, Emyr, somehow managed to miss your reply till now. Correction noted. Yes, I thought the carpentry connection was the clincher. Is the article you mentioned readily accessible?

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Caernarvonshire / Re: Henry Jones 1st ship builder of Portmadog born 1782 died 1861
« on: Tuesday 27 August 19 01:01 BST (UK)  »
Great news. I just wish I'd seen the thread before I was in Port, Caernarfon and Manchester (where the family moved after WR/GE either died or ran off to Canada) in June. But if you get in touch I can send you a scan of the Pwllheli PR entry and some other stuff. I also found some Lloyd's Register paperwork on the barque Henry Jones yesterday, which is an interesting sidelight. I couldn't get the link-shrinker to work for me, so here's the whole thing: https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/archive-library/documents/lrf-pun-barbwk38-0187-r-henry-jones-1850

Fingers crossed EmyrBorth sees this too and we can get on the trail of that Gwilym Eryri article. The librarian at Port dug out his entry in Hanes Porthmadog for me, but I'm guessing you know about that.

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Caernarvonshire / Re: Henry Jones 1st ship builder of Portmadog born 1782 died 1861
« on: Monday 26 August 19 09:45 BST (UK)  »
Sorry to be so late to the party, but I only googled Henry Jones today and found this thread. (I've also just signed up to RC to join in, so also excuse any breaches of protocol.)

William Roberts/Gwilym Eryri is my great-grandfather, so I can share a bit of extra info about him and his son Evan (my gf) and the fate of our branch of the Jones/Roberts family. I'm very interested in the article Emyr mentioned and anything else on that subject. Plus of course all info about Henry and Capt David Roberts.

I was in Wales (from Australia) in June and found what I take to be the record of Henry's birth in the Pwllheli parish register. He's listed as Harry, son of "John Jones (ship's carpenter) and Elinor his wife" and the date is October 12th 1781 rather than 1782. Make sense? It fits with his age and birthplace as listed in the 1841 census.

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