In a message dated 30/12/2002 22:25:23 GMT Standard Time,
meganowen(a)lineone.net writes:
in 1868 he insisted on going to Cwm y Glo to visit
his ailing cousin. Everyone tried to stop him, but off he went. Of
course
he got the illness (death cert. says Typhoid, registrar said treat that
with
a pinch of salt.) He died in December 1868 at Maen Coch near Llanwnda and
his young wife died 2 weeks later on Christmas day 1868. My grandmother
was
only 9 months old. It all happened between the 1861 and 1871 censuses. So
the little family never appeared on a census as a unit.
Have you tried to find an obituary in the local or denominational papers for
your g-grandfather, your g-grandmother or the cousin from Cwm-y-Glo?
The archives in Caernarfon, Caernarfon Library, Bangor University Library,
Cardiff City Library (has more North Wales Records than most people expect!!)
and the National Library of Wales, between them have a massive collection of
1860's newspapers one or more of which are sure to contain information about
these sad events. As you know the date of death searching through them
shouldn't be too big a problem (if you live within travelling distance to any
of the repositories).
I am not sure which newspaper is most likely to cover Llanwnda or Cwm y Glo,
the Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald, possibly. The librarian at the local branc
h library can usually help with this sort of query.
If you know which denomination your family belonged to (in which chapel did
they marry? in which grave yard where they buried?) check out the
denominational papers as well as the local papers. Most of these papers,
although published on an all-Wales basis have local "our chapel" columns made
up mainly of hatched - matched - dispatched items.
If you know your g-grandfather's denomination but are unsure of which paper
covered it in the 1860's an e-mail to the NLW enquiries desk
holi(a)llgc.org.uk
will usually find a likely source.
hope this helps
regards
Alwyn
http://dolgellau.me.uk