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Hi annun

Hope you are well.  Many thanks for the information on Morris Hughes and Jane Edwards.  I have updated my family tree. I still haven't been successful in tracing the marriage and birth of Robert Edwards and Jane although I did find on "Find My Past" an entry for a Robert Edwards born  9.3.1730 to a William Edwards and Jane of Castell Caereinion, Montgomeryshire,  and a marriage in Pennant Melangell, Montgomeryshire,  of a Robert Edwards to Jane Evans 21.11. 1758 which could be a possibility.  The witnesses were John Evans (possibly Jane's father or brother) and John Thomas who is possibly the John Thomas mentioned on the Bond at the time of Robert's death in 1778, although he was a farmer living in the LLanraeadr ym Mochnant area in 1778. What do you think ?

Regards

Hi Annun

Great news. Thank you so much.   You have been very busy.  Did you find anything  out about Jane and Morris Hughes and do you know the date of death for Jane?  I have been in touch with Flintshire record office and they told me that Elizabeth Edwards nee Daniel died 26.10.1845.  As far as Robert Edwards is concerned...it is great that you have the date of his birth and death of his wife Jane but I am still struggling to find out where they were born and married.  Did you see the gravestones in the churchyard or was this information from the church records?  The only birth I found on Find My Past for a Robert Edwards was 9th March 1730, father William Edwards mother Jane at Castell Caereinion, Montgomeryshire.  I suppose this is a possibility but there is no mention of a marriage.   Will keep trying.

Thanks again

Regards Aldeas

Thanks for your interest.  I will check this out but my ancestor died in Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog in 1778 leaving Jane his widow and about 5 children.    There are unfortunately several marriages for a Robert Edwards and Jane  in Denbighshire and surrounding areas about 1756-58 and I am having difficulty proving which is the correct one.

Regrds Aldeas

Hi

Looking for  any information on the family of  Robert Edwards of LLandderfel   who married Jane Evans  21.11.1758 at  Pennant Melangell.  Witnesses John Evans and John Thomas.

Aldeas

Hi Annun

I saw the entry in 1881 census for William Edwards.   IGI confirms that William was the son of my 3x gtgrandfather Edward Edwards and Elizabeth Daniel.  I saw from the census for William  that his daughter Margaret was born in Shropshire.  He married a Frances Griffiths of Llangedwn in 1844.   I wonder how William came to be in Shropshire. Most of their children were born there.  In 1851 he was a publican at the Star Inn, Oswestry.  In 1861 he became a farmer at Weston Hall , Shropshire and then moved to Penycae, Ruabon.  He certainly moved around a bit.  Maybe we were right and there maybe a connection with Robert Edwards of Megin and Selatyn, Shropshire.  I see William ended up farming at Ty Coch so he may have taken over from his older brother Robert who was farming there in 1841.  The 1901 census shows a Mary Hughes, widow, farming at Migin.  Do you know anything about her background ?   She must have followed Henry Hughes who had married and moved on to Penybryn and later Middleton Farm, Oswestry ?   Maybe I need to get hold of a copy of the Shropshire Parish Records.

Best wishes Aldeas