Lizzie, Upper Bangor was a tight-knit community in those days, and many of the leading families inter-married. I remember that the Bayne & Dargie business was still going in the early 1960s. As 'Scotch drapers', they employed reps who would travel throughout the area (mostly rural Caernarvonshire and Anglesey) selling clothes and household linen etc. There are three copies of TFD's book at the University Library, Bangor, also one at Llangefni, and one at Caernarfon. I suspect that it was a limited print so there may be very few on the second-hand market. Regards, David. -----Original Message----- From: aspenlea [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 05 August 2004 23:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CAE] DARGIE of Llechylched (AGY)/Bangor (CAE) Hello again David The DARGIE family were very close friends of my HUMPHREYS grandparents (and I now believe my grandparents named their son after Major Arnold DARGIE). As a child I remember we used to visit David Malcolm DARGIE (b1889 Bangor) and his wife, Maisie at their home in Upper Bangor. Even though they must have been quite old then, I recall "Auntie" Maisie was an outstandingly pretty woman with beautiful dark brown eyes and a delightful manner. "Uncle" David also mentioned that there was a "Lake Dargie" somewhere in the USA named after his brother William. Thanks for the dates of death, which I hadn't known. I too have a signed copy of the little book (obviously given to my grandparents), which must be every family historian's dream as it contains all sorts of information and is quite light reading. Do you have any idea of how many copies were produced or whether there is a copy lodged with a North Wales archive? I still hope that someone might know of/have contact with descendants of the DARGIE family, particularly Ian who farmed in Anglesey. Regards Lizzie Brisbane, Australia FHS: Mont #965, Gwynedd #2991 outgoing mail scanned by PC-cillin 2004 ==== WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE Mailing List ==== http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/inst/uwbangor.shtml Bangor University Archives ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237