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Montgomeryshire / Re: Rev John Cadvan Davies
« on: Thursday 30 June 11 14:54 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for clearing up the mystery.
All I have been able to find about John Thomas is that he was a blaenor at Pendref, and that he died in Mold before 1913. He may have been involved with the substantial interior  work of 1876, or the building of a schoolroom in 1896. Pendref itself had been built in 1828, superseding a previous chapel of 1803/1822. There would almost certainly be an obituary in Yr Eurgrawn or Y Gwyliedydd but hunting it down would be a substantial undertaking without knowing the year of death.
I feel it is extremely unlikely that he christened your uncle. It is now, with the shortage of ministers, not all that unusual for a lay person to perform a baptism, but very rare then.     
Tegai

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Denbighshire / Re: Richard Jones of Henfache (1820 - 1904)
« on: Thursday 14 April 11 21:54 BST (UK)  »
You may find the following entry, which I have prepared for a forthcoming volume of Montgomeryshire Biographies, helpful :
JONES, Richard (1820 -1904) Farmer and community leader.
b. 28 Apr 1820, son of  Richard Jones (1783-1849) of Glyndyfrdwy and Ann (née Evans), Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant, at Penygraig, Cymdy, the family moving to Glashirfryn, Llansilin, in 1827. There were four daus and three sons. William (1822 -1897) and John (1828-1902) are the two other brothers portrayed in the composite biography listed below; both were prominent in local chapel affairs. After attending local schools, all the children were sent to Oswestry Grammar. Richard m.(1) Oct 1840 Margaret Edwards, Plasynglyn (b.6 Sep 1822), and the couple spent the first few years at her home, before moving to Llanfyllin and, in May 1847 to the substantial farm Henfache, Llanrhaeadr, initially on rent but purchased in 1858. Nine children were born, but the mother d. 13 Dec 1864 (memoir E 58 (1866), 353-60). In 1869 Richard m.(2) a widow, Mrs Mary Ann Hughes (b.Liverpool,c.1819), but she failed to settle and spent most of her time with her dau. in Rhyl. In 1879 he retired from Henfache to a large house, Glanaber, which he had designed himself. He was very active on the School Board (its chairman for fifteen years), the Highways Board, the Board of Guardians, as a Commissioner of Taxes and other public bodies. In the early 1880s he was made a JP and, after a hotly contested election, became a member of the first Denbighshire County Council, and served for nine years. He was especially active in the Wesleyan connexion and in 1891 was a delegate to its Ecumenical Conference in Washington, DC.
In 1868 he published in Caernarfon Clustnodydd neu Gydymaith y Bugail, with over 1200 earmarks of sheep, collected by John Roberts, Rhyd-y-felin, and with additions by R Roberts and himself..
d. 30 Mch 1904

O Madoc Roberts, Cofiant y Tri Brawd, Treffynnon, 1906; E 96 (1904) 196-7.
                              
E = Yr Eurgrawn, the Wesleyan Methodist periodical

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Rev John Cadvan Davies
« on: Monday 08 January 07 00:06 GMT (UK)  »
Further to my previous reply, I have now been able to see Cadvan's autobiographical notes in Welsh (Eurgrawn 1917).
b.1 Oct.1846 on small farm Yr Allt,Llangadfan.
grandfather on mother's side Edward Ifan, son of Maes Garthbeibio ; grandmother Coed-cae Llanbrynmair ; after marr.lived at Bron Haul,Garthbeibio.
grandfather on father's side David Davies,joiner,built Melin y Graig (Mill) on banks of River Twrch. He died young leaving his widow Dorothy with 6 children. Cadvan's father also apprenticed as joiner and in 1845 took a lease on some mountain land in Llangadfan and built a house, granary etc.

Cadvan m. 1st Maggie Jones, dau. of Hugh Jones,Ty'nypwll,Dinas Mawddwy,23 Aug.1876 in the Independent Chapel,Dinas Mawddwy.
2nd Mary Ada Evans,dau.of Meschach Evans,Manchester House,Coedllai (Leeswood) on 15 Aug.1882 in Wesleyan Chapel Mold.
The curious feature is that, after writing of wife 1 and the two children, she suddenly disappears and wife 2 arrives. The denominational periodical carries no obituary for her, as one would normally expect. If I remember, I'll ask around.
Tegai

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Montgomeryshire Lookup Requests / Re: Henfache - where is it?
« on: Sunday 07 January 07 23:12 GMT (UK)  »
Some of the replies are not quite right.
Henfache is correctly spelt ; 'bach' here is more likely to be an angle or a corner.
Maes y bwch is halfway between the village of Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant and the waterfall (Pistyll Rhaeadr) ; all the sheep-dipping for the area used to take place there in the middle of the last century. 'Bwch' is a he-goat. It cannot be 'buwch' (cow) as that is feminine and there would be mutation to give Maes y Fuwch.
Tegai

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Rev John Cadvan Davies
« on: Monday 11 December 06 23:28 GMT (UK)  »
Cadvan was a well known Wesleyan minister,hymn writer and Eisteddfod poet (as Cadfan) ; he was Archdruid in 1923. There is an entry in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, online on the National Library of Wales site. His parents are given there as David and Jane. His autobiography is in Welsh. As a Wesleyan minister at that time he changed circuits every three years.

Tegai

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