Unsubsribe [email protected] wrote: > ATTACHMENT part 1 message/rfc822 WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 178 Today's Topics: #1 Re: [CAE] Penrhyn ["Arlene Berta" #2 Re: [CAE] Penrhyn ["Barbara Williams" #3 Penrhyn strike question?? ["Barbara Williams" Administrivia: To unsubscribe from WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE-D, send a message to [email protected] that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE-D list administrator, send mail to [email protected] ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:00:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Arlene Berta" To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CAE] Penrhyn Hi Listers interested in quarrymen of North Wales. There is an excellent book, The North Wales Quarrymen. I was able to find a copy on ebay. It tells all about their lives and the strike. All the males on both sides of my family were quarrymen and were involved in the strike. I have a cousin who's grandfather worked during the strike and received a home to live in as a reason to work. A friend of mine, living in Bethesda, is the granddaughter of the man that built those homes for Lord Penhryn. She's elderly, and full of historical knowledge on the village. I have been fortunate to have family and friends that know much of the history. Bethesda has a wonderful history. Did you know pubs were only allowed on one side of the high street as Lord Penhryn owned the buildings on the other side. He did not allow pubs. I beleive at one time there was something like 83 pubs in Bethesda. I'll have to check again on that number. I have it written down, but the book is at my daughter's where I spend my week days babysitting. I'll go through the book and write all the facts I have learn from an expert on Bethesda who I had the pleasure of spending the day with last year. He toured me around and showed me lots of interesting things. He's written a book on Bethesda. Not sure it is available yet. I'll check. Definitely try and find 'The North Wales Quarrymen'. Excellent reading. Arlene Berta Folsom, Ca >> Hello Barbara >> >> If you would be so kind and email the links I would be indebted to you >> My father and family worked in the Llanberis quarry >> Regards >> -- >> Ronald Jones > > Hi Ronald > > If you go to this page > > http://www.llechicymru.info/index.english.htm > > you are sure to find lots of really interesting information, I printed out > the article "What I saw at Bethesda" - this was so enlightening as to how > people lived through this strike (1900-1903). My grandfather Thomas John > WILLIAMS was born in Bethesda in 1898 so I got a real feel of how it must > have been for his family living there at the time. > > I also was on this page today and saw a pic of Llanberis quarry and how it > used to look.... > > http://www.data-wales.co.uk/ > > And on this page, I found my grandfather's two sister's enrolled at the > local school, also gives you another feel for the "great strike" which I > didn't know about until just very recently. > > http://www.gtj.org.uk/ > > > An interesting page about how slate is used today......... > > http://www.inigojones.co.uk/ > > Kindest Regards > Barbara in Sydney via Liverpool > > > > ==== WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE Mailing List ==== > Gwynedd Family History Society > 36 Y Wern Y Felinheli, Gwynedd LL56 4TXX > [email protected] or [email protected] > > ============================== > 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 > > > ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 3 message/rfc822 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:56:34 +1000 From: "Barbara Williams" To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CAE] Penrhyn Hi Arlene This looks like a really interesting book. I am going to see if I can get a copy on ebay too. I would be very interested in anything further you can share about the place. I visited there two years ago with my sister, we were only there for a day trip but we visited our grandfather's birthplace at 4 Bryn Owen Street and just went for a little hunt around as I was "off" doing the family tree thing at that time. We did find Coed Y Parc though after a lot of driving up and down and walking back and forth!! Oh - and we did have a very nice (HUGE) pub lunch in the main street there. Regards Barbara ---- Original Message ----- From: "Arlene Berta" To: Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 8:00 AM Subject: Re: [CAE] Penrhyn > Hi Listers interested in quarrymen of North Wales. There is an excellent > book, The North Wales Quarrymen. I was able to find a copy on ebay. It > tells all about their lives and the strike. > > All the males on both sides of my family were quarrymen and were involved > in the strike. I have a cousin who's grandfather worked during the strike > and received a home to live in as a reason to work. A friend of mine, > living in Bethesda, is the granddaughter of the man that built those homes > for Lord Penhryn. She's elderly, and full of historical knowledge on the > village. > > I have been fortunate to have family and friends that know much of the > history. Bethesda has a wonderful history. Did you know pubs were only > allowed on one side of the high street as Lord Penhryn owned the buildings > on the other side. He did not allow pubs. I beleive at one time there > was something like 83 pubs in Bethesda. I'll have to check again on that > number. I have it written down, but the book is at my daughter's where I > spend my week days babysitting. > > I'll go through the book and write all the facts I have learn from an > expert on Bethesda who I had the pleasure of spending the day with last > year. He toured me around and showed me lots of interesting things. He's > written a book on Bethesda. Not sure it is available yet. I'll check. > > Definitely try and find 'The North Wales Quarrymen'. Excellent reading. > > Arlene Berta > Folsom, Ca > > > > >> Hello Barbara > >> > >> If you would be so kind and email the links I would be indebted to you > >> My father and family worked in the Llanberis quarry > >> Regards > >> -- > >> Ronald Jones > > > > Hi Ronald > > > > If you go to this page > > > > http://www.llechicymru.info/index.english.htm > > > > you are sure to find lots of really interesting information, I printed out > > the article "What I saw at Bethesda" - this was so enlightening as to how > > people lived through this strike (1900-1903). My grandfather Thomas John > > WILLIAMS was born in Bethesda in 1898 so I got a real feel of how it must > > have been for his family living there at the time. > > > > I also was on this page today and saw a pic of Llanberis quarry and how it > > used to look.... > > > > http://www.data-wales.co.uk/ > > > > And on this page, I found my grandfather's two sister's enrolled at the > > local school, also gives you another feel for the "great strike" which I > > didn't know about until just very recently. > > > > http://www.gtj.org.uk/ > > > > > > An interesting page about how slate is used today......... > > > > http://www.inigojones.co.uk/ > > > > Kindest Regards > > Barbara in Sydney via Liverpool > > > > > > > > ==== WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE Mailing List ==== > > Gwynedd Family History Society > > 36 Y Wern Y Felinheli, Gwynedd LL56 4TXX > > [email protected] or [email protected] > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > > > > > > > ==== 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 > > > ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 4 message/rfc822 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:44:10 +1000 From: "Barbara Williams" To: [email protected] Subject: Penrhyn strike question?? Hi to all I have a question for more knowledgeable people about the strike. The strike went from 1900 to 1903, but when I was looking at the 1901 census today getting some information about my family - I noticed that all the neighbours (as well as my own family) are all shown as occupation - Slate Quarryman - next column - Worker. Does this mean that they may have worked in one of the other local quarries or would they have been "bradwyr's" (traitors)? I found my g.grandmother Ellen WILLIAMS nee OWENS with her 3 children (Mary Ellen, Jane and Thomas John) living with her parents, she is shown as married (rather than widowed) but no sign of her husband Robert WILLIAMS. I downloaded a few pages of who I thought he could be - but none seem to be the right one. I hope he had gone away to work rather than be a bradwyr, but who knows what any of us would do if faced with starvation. Regards Barbara --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!