Hi Pam My offering to help you was a little like carrying coals to Newcastle. I am sure that you know much more about the area than I do. You perhaps know something about my cousin Sidney Jones who moved back to the Wild Rose area after retiring from teaching in the Chicago area. His brother Henry was quite well known he was a minister and missionary. I was related through his father, his mothers family was from the Wild Rose farming community, sister to Milton Jones. Many years ago when we would visit on Sundays he would let me ride a horse around the farm, good memories. Best Trevor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Anderson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [CAE] MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, orphan from Betws-y-Coed ? > I appreciate your offer to help on my Williams problem. I was in Wild Rose > yesterday guiding at the Wild Rose Museum. Even though I live in Madison, I > was drafted to be President of the Wild Rose Historical Society. Besides > guiding, I have been trying to make our archives more accessible by doing > indexes and table of contents for documents, pictures or old news articles. > You can go to www.1wildrose.com to get see information on the museum. Clip > on attractions and then Pioneer Museum. If you would like to see the museum, > I am willing to be there to show you through. We have many pictures of the > Welsh settlers & some of their relatives from outside the immediate area. > > The reason they drafted me is because I have been working on a genealogical > history of Wild Rose ( including the Towns of Mt. Morris, Rose, Springwater > and part of the Town of Wautoma in Waushara Co. and part of Dayton in > Waupaca Co., and part of Belmont in Portage Co. I have 38 stackable file > drawers with information for old newspapers that I have read on microfilm, > copied then clipped, dated, and sorted by family or subject. I am behind on > my sorting and filing by at least two (10 ream size) boxes. I have > photographed most of the cemeteries in the area of my research. I have some > that I need to go back and take a trowel along so I can get the dates that > are either under ground or too close to the ground for me to photograph. > > I know that my Pritchard side of the Thomas family absolutely came from > Aberdaron from the Ty Howel farm. I believe the Thomas side also came from > Aberdaron but I can't find the farm in the census. The farm means polluted > water and is Pwll Llwrgr (the second part might be the wrong spelling). I > think the literal translation is more like pond corrupted. I have found > people buried in the Aberdaron cemetery with the farm name on the tombstone. > > The family came over in the 1818-19 time period. I do have an obituary in > Welsh for Jane Pritchard which I mostly translated and then sent to a lady > in Anglesey who has relatives that came to Wild Rose. > > If you run into anyone who knows about the Soar Church records that would be > the greatest help because I don't have a birthdate for Mary Elizabeth. > > I should also say that my mother graduated a year earlier than you did but > of course from Wild Rose. She was active in the band so she went to many of > the tournaments they had in those days. In those days she was Beverly > Murty. > > Thanks again for your offer of help. > > Pam Anderson > > > > > > > > > ==== WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE Mailing List ==== > Cewch ddanfon negeseuon Cymraeg neu Saesneg i'r rhestr hon > This list covers a bilingual area, in which messages in both Welsh and English are welcome > > ============================== > 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 >