Rev.Stanley Hadyn Williams

[Huwcyn]

Nain always assumed that it would be Stanley Williams - a very gentle man with a distinct preaching style - who would bury her . When she died in her mid 90's , we found that her will stated that it would be Stanley Williams who would officiate . By then , unfortunately , he was of too great an age himself.

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Emyr,

More thanks to you for your help 

Glenys

[Huwcyn]

There's reference to the family of Stanley Williams in the Ceiri Griffiths book
I can't for the life of my remember which page it is , though .

[EmyrBorth]

Hi Huwcyn,

What is this 'Ceiri Griffiths book' you refer to ?
EmyrBorth

[Huwcyn]

This book, if you can find it, provides a lot of information about family trees in North West Wales, and Montgomeryshire .There are one or two errors, slips mostly, and discrepancies , but overall its a wonderful help . Strangely enough, almost all the families are rural in origin.

"Achau rhai teuluoedd hen sir Gaernarfon Meirionnydd a Threfaldwyn" By Ceiri Griffith £25


ISBN  : 9780954636708 [0954636708] : Unfortunately, out of print, I gather.

Publisher :  Y lolfa (  http://palasprint.com/siopa/product_info.php?cPath=41&products_id=130 )

Vast family trees  !
   

[EmyrBorth]

Hi
This book is available to researchers, but not for loan, at the County Library in Caernarfon; don't know if it's available at the County Archives. It's dwelling orientated, and you need to look up the dwelling name and search within for the person's name. Bodgarad is one of the dwellings featured.Stanley and siblings are featured and part of their ancestry traced back to an Elin Williams/Hugh Owen (no info) thro' their son William Hughes (Tynewydd, Pont y Wlad, and Bodgarad/Bodangharad, b. 1732, d.1777); and to Catherine Cadwgan, Y Benallt, d.1725/William Brereton, Y Benallt, d.1722.
By looking up another dwelling, forgot to note the name (page 236?), you can trace back, William Brereton's ancestry to a Richard Hughes, d. 1680 on one side of his family, and on the other side to a marriage in 1570. Using cross references it might be possible to obtain further info from entries for other dwellings.
EmyrBorth 

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I purchased a copy of this book directly from T.Ceiri Griffith; without it I wouldn't have been able to get very far back with my research!

Rev. Stanley H. Williams is mentioned on page 100, this  then goes on to trace the ancestry of his mother Jane Griffith.

Page 45 details my gt.grandparents  Owen and Jane Jones nee Owen, and four of their children, they had three more ,  (my Taid was born 1868) and traces her ancestry.

If only my father's maternal  Williams/Williams  ancestry had been detailed in this book !!!!!!

 

[EmyrBorth]

Hi
There is a collection of papers/pictures under the heading 'Papers of Rev Stanley Williams and Dr Gwilym Arthur Jones' at Caernarfon Archives. which includes:
Pictures of:
William Ellis Williams and Ellis W Williams (Stanley H Williams' grandfather), managers of Cilgwyn Quarry;
Stanley H Williams' grandmother;
Ellis W Williams, father of Rev Stanley Williams, in frame;
Stanley H Williams as a young boy;
Ellis Ifor, Elsie Mabel and William Ewart Williams, brother and sister of Stanley Williams;
Sir Geoffrey Organe, cousin of Stanley H Williams, Professor of Anaesthetics London University;
Meillionydd family in the garden.
Most of the papers are to do with slate mining and geology, but there are also papers relating to the history and ancestry of the Bodgarad and Meillionydd family/families.

I haven't looked at any of the material, just looked at the catalogue.
As you know the ancestry is included in Ceiri Griffith's book, but there might be some additional information there.
Emyr

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Emyr,

I obtained a couple of years ago copies from the Caernarfon  Archives of all the photographs and some papers, not all though, far too many and some were re quarry geology!

Thanks for your help again.

Glenys