Hi
I am glad to see someone else looking for a John Jones. I am looking for
two of them, my grandfather and great grandfather, neither of whom had
middle names as far as we know. Looking for John Jones in Anglesey is
like looking for hay in haystack!
Good luck with your search.
Nancy Kerr (who has wonderful memories of a weekend spent in Weymouth over
twenty years ago, and an aunt named Helen Jones.)
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Helen Jones wrote:
Hi
I am not expecting anyone to have my John Jones born Amlwch circa 1826, son
of Owen and ? I have searched every record I can find but he remains
elusive! Plenty of John Jones's, sons of Owen Jones's born in the area in
the 1820s but none fits the bill. I know he followed in his father's
footsteps and became a copper miner, but didn't they all! I even visited
Parys Mountain last summer in the hope of some inspiration but it escaped
me.
What I am wondering is if anyone has come across any migration to or links
with, either the slate mines at Corris or the copper mines in Cwmafon,
Glamorgan. My John seems a little confused about his birth place in the
census, giving Corris in 1851 and Amlwch thereafter. Family story says the
family were definitely from Anglesey, but I am wondering where Corris fitted
in. Did some of the Amwlch families move from a depressed copper mining area
to the booming slate works in the 1820s or 1830s? The first real record I
have of John is when he married in Taibach, Glamorgan in 1848. He seemed to
work in the copper mines then and for the rest of his life.
Thanks
Helen
Helen Jones in Weymouth, Dorset, UK
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