Diolch yn fawr, Angharad.
This one will require a bit more persistence, and other lines of
inquiry, perhaps.
Hwyl
David
Canberra
On 22/03/2009, at 9:01, Angharad Williams wrote:
I had a good search for you in both 1891 & 1901 and I
couldn't
discover
anything that seemed a possibility anywhere in the vicinity
unfortunately
Angharad
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Rowlands" <drowlan1(a)bigpond.net.au>
To: <WLS-MERIONETHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 12:47 AM
Subject: [MER] William Griffith DAVIES, Penrhyndeudraeth
> 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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