David,
According to Free BMD two persons named William Griffith Davies were
born in Wales in 1888. One in Festiniog district and the other in
Pontypridd. Festiniog district included Penrhyndeudraeth, so this one
appears to be your William:
March 1888: Davies, William Griffith, 11b, 362
I could not find a William Griffith Davies in the 1891 census, so I
searched Griffith Davies with two possibilities, but not specifically
1888:
- Parish of Llandanwg, Quarry Cottage: Griffith Davies, son of John
(37), Slate quarry miner, born Harlech, and Ellen (37) Davies, born
Dyffryn,
- Parish of Festiniog, Church Street: Griffith Davies, son of W.G.
Davies ( 31), Quarryman, born Festiniog, and Catherine ( 34), born
Festiniog.
Apparently there were two sets of twins in the latter household!
I may be going up the wrong track here, so perhaps those of you who
have attempted to crack this one would take a look to see if they agree.
Ken Richards
On Mar 22, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Allan & Liz wrote:
Can't do til tomorrow night - Allan
Angharad Williams wrote:
> double check just in case but I couldn't find any match
> Angharad
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> From: "Allan & Liz" <hobbs(a)pnc.com.au>
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> Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 10:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [MER] William Griffith DAVIES, Penrhyndeudraeth
>
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>
>> 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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