Source information: RG13/5259 Registration district: Festiniog Sub-registration district:
Festiniog ED, institution, or vessel: 13 Folio: 47, page 12
1901 Wales Census
Ysgwrn,
Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire
Evan Evans 47, Head, farmer Trawsfynydd MER, lang: Welsh
Mary Evans 36 Wife, farmers wife Trawsfynydd MER, lang: Welsh
Ellis H Evans 14, Son farmers son Trawsfynydd MER, lang: WelshDavids Evans 12, Son at school Trawsfynydd MER, lang: Welsh
Mary Evans 11 Daur at school Trawsfynydd MER, lang: Welsh
Kate Evans 9 Daur at school Trawsfynydd MER, lang: Welsh
Robert Llewelyn Evans 2 Son Trawsfynydd MER, lang: Welsh
Maggie Evans Daur Trawsfynydd MER, lang: Welsh
Robert Evans 42 Brother Trawsfynydd MER, lang: Welsh
Kate Kilner 14 Servant Trawsfynydd MER, lang: Welsh
In 1917, the large Welsh community on Merseyside staged the National Eisteddfod at Birkenhead. The winner of the Chair was Ellis Humphrey Evans (whose bardic name was Hedd Wynn) who had been killed on 31 July 1917 in France fighting with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The winning chair was draped in black. A collection of the dead poet's work, "Cerddi'r Bugail" (Poems of the Shepherd) was published in 1918
He lived as a shepherd at Yr Ysgwrn farm in Trawsfynydd. He won several local eisteddfod chairs, and very nearly won the chair at the 1916 National Eisteddfod. Reluctantly conscripted into the Army in 1917, he wrote his award-winning poem Yr Arwr (The Hero) whilst in training, completing all the entry details while on service in France. He died on the first day of the Battle of Passchendale.
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