Hi Lorna
I have Joneses and Reese and Edwards and my name sake Griffiths line to go
yet. I picked Christmas on my grandmother Griffiths' grand father because I
thought he would be easy to find in Wales. lol Plus he and the other
Griffiths are the only ones I don't know where in Wales they are from.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lorna & Brian Jones" <snag(a)bigpond.net.au>
To: <WLS-GWYNEDD-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 6:41 PM
Subject: RE: [GWYNEDD] Christmas Griffiths
Hello Ian and Jim
Thank you for this interesting email, Ian.
I'm beginning to wish that Christmas Griffiths was mine, but I'm stuck
with
the JONESes!
I've been looking at all the censuses for Christmas and last night found
34
GRIFFITHS persons with the forename or second name of Christmas all
over
Wales and England. I was wondering if it was actually a name that people
of
GRIFFITHS surname had adopted as theirs. A lot of the females in
the
families seem to have the initial C for their middle name also. I have
noticed it is common in Wales to give females 'apparantly male' middle
names. My family are a mixture of JONES and ELLIS and a lot of the
females
have Ellis as a middle name.
Anyway, good luck to Jim with the Christmas name.
Lorna.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: I Thompson [mailto:joscyn@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 31 October 2005 2:31 AM
> To: WLS-GWYNEDD-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: [GWYNEDD] Christmas Griffiths
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> >From the online catalogue of the National Library (give it a go at
> llgc.org.uk):
>
...
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