Howdy. Hope you are all on the look-out for the latest Goner virus. Enough said. For those of you who are looking around woollen and flannel mills for ancestral relatives, the following may be of use:- some general occupations of these mills that appear, in particular, in the 1881 census are: beamer, bobbin maker, bobbin winder, card cleaner, carder, cloth baler, cloth mender, cloth picker, creeler, darner, feeder, finisher, fuller, loom jobber, loom tuner, millband, millworker, picker, piecer, reader, slubber, sorter, spinner, splicer, stapler, stocking knitter, twister, warper, washer, weaver, winder, wool packer, wood puller, tarn carrier, tarn winder. Any of these will certainly point to your relatives working in a wool factory close by. P.S. for those Roberts & Jones researchers, you may be pleased to know that I think I have found the origin of Lowry, or Laura Roberts, nee Lloyd of Maengoron, Lantysilio, Denbighshire. Seems that she is perhaps the daughter of Robert & Elizabeth (Jones) Lloyd, baptized at Cerrigydrudion 31 Jun 1772 (fits absolutely perfectly with her age in various census and her tombstone) - Robert & Elizabeth of tu Isa in havod, elwy, Hennlan parish. I still have to reconcile this with the 1851 census stating that she was born in MGY, but then, we all know, census records are often quite imperfect, in more ways than one. Need the marriage to check that out, and possibly the 1871 census of Llantysilio, as she was still alive in 1873. More work!! Onward!! Tally-ho!! Cherrio Graham