Your information is correct about the Gwernbusaig family. We are another contact for the
family reunion for the Ffestiniog and Trawsfynydd part of the family. I will contact you
direct.
Pearl
Jeff Delves <jeff.delves(a)virgin.net> wrote:
Recent references by Gwen & Ken to Cwm Cynllwyd (Llanuwchllyn) came to mind when I
was in Llandrillo a week or so ago and came across a very interesting article in the 24
February edition of "Y Cyfnod" (Bala-based local weekly newspaper). The article
referred to the S4C TV program "O'r Galon : Cyrraedd Blaenycwm Cyn yr Hwyr"
[Reaching Blaenycwm before Nightfall], broadcast on Tuesday 28 February 9pm. To summarise
& translate the article, the film (one of the series "O'r Galon" - From
the Heart) follows a personal pilgrimage by Meinir Ffransis (55), her daughter Lleucu
Meinir (31), and her grand-daughter Rhiannon Sion (7), as they revisit the birthplace of
Meinir's grandmother in Cwm Cynllwyd.
Meinir's father was the late politician Gwynfor Evans, her mother the late Rhiannon
Prys Evans. Rhiannon P's mother was Elizabeth Watkin Jones of Cwm Cynllwyd, where many
of the family still live - farms referred to include Bryn, Ty'n Fron, Tanybwlch,
Rhyd-y-Bod, Tynant and Blaenycwm. The very large family ("among the largest in
Wales") includes Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals and "the famous public
relations guru David Meredith". A family reunion in Bala a few years ago attracted
over 400 relatives.
The more I find out about S4C's programs, the more I realise that I should get
satellite-TV (eg FreeSat) so that I could watch Welsh-language programs here in East
Anglia.
By chance (?) the same issue of "Y Cyfnod" contained an advance notice of
another family reunion - to be held on 6 May in Bala. In this case the ROWLANDS family of
Gwernbusaig - also known as Gwernbiseg - between Llidiardau & Parc : relatives of
Robert ROWLANDS, previously of Dyfeidiog, Trawsfynydd, one of 10 children. The notice gave
2 local contacts with their phone numbers. I presume that this Robert ROWLANDS is the one
shown at Gwern Biseg in the 1891 Llanycil census age 25, born Trawsfynydd, with wife
Elizabeth (32) & son Robert Price (3), also mother-in-law Margaret DAVIES (63).
Margaret is shown as "Wife, married" as opposed to "Head, widowed",
but no sign of her husband David DAVIES (born 1832). David was, I believe, the son of
tailor/farmer Owen DAVIES (of Ceunant Isaf, c1833-1869, bur Talybont, Rhyduchaf), and
brother of Catherine (1835-1885). Catherine was the first wife of John ROBERTS of Berwyn
House, Llandrillo (1841-1911) : she had 6 children. I am a grandson !
of John ROBERTS & his second wife, Gwenllian. So I suppose I am .... distantly ......
related to the ROWLANDS family!
Jeff Delves
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