Hello, Rol and Gnu!
Rol, this wouldn't have anything to do with the Sun Inn.....would it?! You know, The Sun Inn, where Thomas & Margaret Davies were staying when (as Gnu helpfully mentions above in what might turn out to be a very significant aside) their twin sons were born in 1796. The Sun Inn, where Gadget helpfully reported two years ago in your thread investigating the relationship of the Hughes of Gwerclas with Pen y Clawdd (
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,390636.0html ) that a certain Mary Hughes, widow, was registered as licencee in 1819?! Mary Hughes -- perhaps widow of John who died 1781, and mother of the William (if the pearsall family tree kindly and helpfully researched by Gnu above has it correct) who married Thomas and Margaret's oldest daughter, Elizabeth, just four years after the twins were born?!!
WOW!!!! This fits together so neatly, it seems almost too good to be true!
And was William Hughes, then, also a canal builder -- who took off to the pretty village of Gayton in Northumberland soon after the marriage (whether before or after the birth of prominent son William -- the IGI has it as before) to participate in the building of the part of the Grand Union Canal that touches there?! (Must admit I've not investigated dating of that project yet; but it's hard to imagine what else might have lured the couple to Gayton). Of course, this is all speculation and will need a lot of checking; but it's very, very interesting!
Rol, how amazing that the Hughes' and the Davies' families became intertwined! This is exciting stuff indeed! And now I'm even more impatient to have you "return to the fold" and report your take on all this! But I know you will when you can. I shall just have to wait.
Kind regards.
CELTIC ANNIE
