double check just in case but I couldn't find any match
Angharad
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan & Liz" <hobbs(a)pnc.com.au>
To: <wls-merionethshire(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [MER] William Griffith DAVIES, Penrhyndeudraeth
Hi David
I see that Angharad has looked for me so I will hold off.
Regards
Allan
David Rowlands wrote:
> Thanks Allan (as for help with Penrhyndeudraeth in the past!)
>
> The interesting part of this story is that WGD married a young woman
> (Elizabeth Ellen JONES, known as 'Nellie') from Penrhyn who had come
> to Australia with my grandmother in August 1914. Sadly, Nellie died in
> about 1930.
>
> I only found out about the connection to me because Nellie's younger
> sister is alive and well and still living in Penrhyn, aged 106! (or
> was so about a year ago).
>
> David
>
>
>
>
> On 22/03/2009, at 12:32, Allan & Liz wrote:
>
>
>> Hi David
>>
>> I have Pages 1-35 (printed) of the Penrhyndeudraeth census (part of RG
>> 12/4644 Llanfihangel y Traethau).
>> I can't find your William or Maggie there, but I do have the complete
>> fiche but will need a day or so to check unless someone else can do so
>> in the meantime.
>>
>> Regards
>> Allan Hobbs
>>
>> David Rowlands wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone do an 1891 census look-up for me, please?
>>>
>>> I am trying to trace a distant relative whose connection with me is
>>> as
>>> yet unclear but has been claimed by people who should know!
>>>
>>> He was William Griffith DAVIES, born in Penrhyndeudraeth circa 1888.
>>> By 1916 he was living in Broken Hill in far western New South Wales
>>> and enrolling in the Australian Imperial Forces to serve in the Great
>>> War. He survived and lived the rest of his life in Broken Hill (until
>>> 1960) and I have some sources for the period after 1916. He was
>>> variously a miner and bookmaker and married twice.
>>>
>>> What I should very much like is if someone with access to the 1891
>>> census for Penrhyndeudraeth could see if they could find WGD in it,
>>> please.
>>>
>>> I know from his military attestation papers that he was 28 in 1916
>>> and
>>> there is a plausible entry for the birth in the Festiniog district in
>>> the March quarter 1888 on FreeBMD.
>>>
>>> If someone could find him aged about 2 in the 1891 census for
>>> Penrhyndeudraeth or thereabouts that would be a great help and could
>>> show me how he is connected to me. His next of kin on his attestation
>>> papers is given as his mother, Mrs Maggie JONES (I presume his father
>>> must have died and she had re-married) of Betws-y-Coed.
>>>
>>> (The papers are at:
>>>
<
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=1902513&I=1&SE=1> )
>>>
>>> If we do have a connection it is likely ultimately to be through
>>> Catherine DAVIES (b 1857 Festiniog, d 1927 Penrhyndeudraeth, married
>>> Edward WILLIAMS in 1876), my mother's mother's mother.
>>>
>>> David Rowlands
>>> Canberra
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