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:
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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