Hi Jan - I've asked around the valley and none of the people I know seem to
know your Elizabeth Jones and her family. However on where she was baptised
the answer is more complicated than I first thought. If they attende the
Anglican church as various people have said the parish church would be the
one in Talyllyn. If they were chapelgoers the original Rehoboth chapel was
apparently already functioning in the 1830s. This chapel was later replaced
by another which was in its turn swept away in a landslide along with part
of the graveyard and some houses. So if she was baptised there the records
will have been lost in the landslide. The chapel was again replaced (on a
different site) and has since changed hands.
This family does seem to moved around a fair bit so perhaps she wasn't even
baptised while they were in this area.
I think you also asked what the main occupations round here were. From
being a small farming village it grew in Victorian times to being a sizable
slate mining community with one of the first railways in this area taking
slate down to the docks in the Dyfi valley. However your family would have
left before the big expansion took place.
Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan J." <jnrose(a)webtv.net
Sent:
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:07 PM
Subject: [MER] Eliz JONES ~ Corris 1832
Seeking parent's names of Elizabeth JONES [possibly Rowland and
Elizabeth JONES] born in Corris, Merionethshire, North Wales, May 2,
1832. She came to America in 1851 at age 19 years. [see partial obituary
below].
Names of Elizabeth's siblings were:
Matilda JONES, Emma [Susan] JONES [my 2nd great grandmother], John R.
JONES, Mary JONES, etc.
Many THANKS :) in advance,
Jan Jordan in Vermont, USA
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>From THE POULTNEY JOURNAL, Poultney, VT., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1918,
page 1
OBITUARY. [partial]
Mrs. Elizabeth Owens.
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth OWENS, relict of Morris OWENS, occurred at
her home on York Street on Wednesday afternoon, at the advanced age of
almost 86 years. <precept
Deceased was born in Corris, Merionethshire, North Wales, on May 2,
1832, and came to America at the age of 19. She and Mr. OWENS were
residents of North Poultney [Vt.] for several years, where he died in
the Fall of 1876, and in the following Spring Mrs. OWENS and her
children moved to this village and into the house where she had
constantly lived for forty-one years. <precept
All of her 8 children were still living at her death: Rowland T. OWENS
and Mrs. W.G. PHILLIPS of this village, Mrs. Mary JONES of St. Louis,
Mrs. Susie WATTS of New York, Mrs. John FALLON of Flushing, L.I. Miss
Margaret OWENS of New Rochelle, NY, William R. OWENS of Granville, NY
and Edward P. OWENS of Claremont, NH.
She was one of a family of 13 children - two of whom still survive, a
sister in London and another in Granville, Mrs. Joseph WILLIAMS. Rev.
John OWENS of Fair Haven officiated. The bearers were four grandsons,
Raymond, Arthur, Fred PHILLIPS and Newton OWENS, and two grandsons by
marriage, Charles ELDRIDGE and Eleazer JONES.
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