I am looking for the Parry family of Beddau Mawr, Llanffinan, Anglesey.
John and Elin Parry were living there during the 1871 and following censuses, and in 1871
his father also called John (born 1792) also lived there.
The census suggests that John was born in Tregaean in 1819, and that Elin was born in
Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd in 1821, but I have not found their marriage in the
Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd registers, nor John's christening in either Tregaean, or
Rhosmeirch Congregationalist chapel. They were Congregationalists and used to walk the
fairly substantial distance from Beddau Mawr, near Talwrn to Rhosmeirch, near Llangefni.
Elin died on 31 October 1900 and John died on 12 April 1901and were both buried at
Rhosmeirch Congregational chapel.
They had at least three children, but I have not been able to track down their births.
They had a daughter Ann, born 1844, and buried at Rhosmeirch in 1860, and her gravestone
says that she was of Beddau Mawr. Yet the 1861 census gives a different family (also
called Parry) as living at Beddau Mawr, and I have not been able to locate my Parrys in
either 1861 or 1851. (The census index for 1851 on Anglesey Lookup did not find any
families meeting the description of my Parrys anywhere on Anglesey).
They had a son John, born 1847, who lived in Beddau Mawr in 1871 and was described as an
agricultural labourer.
In 1881 he lived at 63 Chatsworth Street, Liverpool, near Edge Hill station, with his
sister Jane Anne and brother-in-law, William Jones, and was described as a master builder,
but he is not mentioned in the book "The Welsh Builder on Merseyside". By
1822-29 he lived in Bridge Street, Llangefni, in the building which was later Caffi'r
Ddwylan, and died on 21 October 1929.
Jane Ann Parry (my gt-gt-grandmother) was born in 1857, but does not appear with her
family in 1871. She married William Jones, a railway guard from Crewe, at Llanffinan
Parish church.
In 1881 they lived at 63 Chatsworth Street, Liverpool, and the 1891 census gives her place
of birth as Llanddyfnan, Anglesey. She moved back to Beddau Mawr after the death of her
parents, and died in 1927.