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    1. Marriage of William Davies and Elizabeth Williams of Llanrwst in 1836
    2. harry bannister
    3. Hi, I approached you last year with regard to the death in Caernarfon of an ancestor William Davies and your members were a tremendous help in providing information about Caernarfon and his lodgings at the time of his death. Since I'm having a problem of a totally different nature regarding his marriage I thought I'd again look to the society to see if they could come up with the goods yet again. The story thus far is that my ancestor William Davies was a potter/dealer in earthenware/hawker and married Elizabeth Williams from Llanrwst and had three daughters, Catherine in 1838, Elizabeth in 1841 and Dorothy in 1842. He died of consumption on September 8th 1842 in Caernarfon and his death was reported by a John Davies. Although keen to find a marriage entry for him in the parish registers, I've been to Ruthin three times and am unable to find anything regarding a marriage in the Llanrwst archives so I approached the Clwyd FHS and they came up with the following, which I might add, could well be the correct. '1837-05-27 William Davies s Den 29 (Llanelian) and Elizabeth Williams Den 10 (Eglwys Bach).' The one thing that has sown a seed of doubt in my mind is an entry in the LDS IGI which refers to a marriage between a William Davis and Elizabeth Williams of Llanrwst in about 1836, which I'm unable to pursue due to the rider "Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. No additional information is available. Ancestral File may list the same family and the submitter". If the above entry is accurate and since it ties in so neatly with my forebears I'm hoping it is, and I've not been able to locate the information in Ruthin it means I've either overlooked it, was looking in the wrong place or it wasn't there because the marriage never took place in Llanrwst. The reason I'm positioning this problem with the Caernarfornshire FHS is that my ancestor obviously travelled in his business as a potter/dealer in earthenware/hawker and since this is confirmed by the fact he died in Caernarfon in 1842 and his middle daughter was privately baptised in Harlech in 1841, it suggests his wife travelled with him and that perhaps he didn't marry in Llanrwst but elsewhere such as Caernarfonshire where he died. If this were the case it could account for the LDS IGI entry which I've been unable to find in Ruthin, the problem being that since he possibly travelled quite widely he could also have married anywhere in Wales, so my question is, if not in Llanrwst or Caernarfon then is there a central facility in Wales that will allow me to look up all the marriages that took place in Wales around 1836. Best wishes, Harry

    06/19/2006 11:52:17