Hello- I have been reading with interest the messages about the slate quarrymen. My great grandfather, Thomas Jones, was killed at the Penmaenmawr granite quarry in 1885, a few months before his daughter, my grandmother, was born. Many of the men in the family, and the family of the man my great grandmother married later, worked in the granite quarry. Some of them were very young. My grandfather came to North Carolina in 1912 or so and worked in a quarry there until he moved to Philadelphia. Does anyone else have connections to the Penmaenmawr granite quarry? Apparently it has been in operation for 5000 years! Marilyn Griffiths, Miami Researching Griffiths, Jones, Young/Jung, Ziegenfus