Dear All, Thank you very very much to the many, many people who have responded to my requests for maps, quarry locations and identifying places. I have found an old map online on http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ which has been very useful, I will send it to myself at work and print out on A3 paper so it is easier to see. I do have a road map of Great Britain which has of course come in handy for modern places. I was born in Liverpool and lived in the UK until I was 28 before migrating to Australia (I still have the accent to prove it too!!) and have been back quite a few times over the years and although I always make a point of going to Wales (land of my fathers??) I have never been back at the same time as I have had an interest in family history matters as this is something I seem to "take up and put down" at various times. So my visits have always been as a kind of "tourist" rather than as a family historian I suppose. I was last back home in October 2002 and did visit Bethesda with my sister. We found 4 Bryn Owen Street where our grandfather Thomas John WILLIAMS was born, there was a village school nearby and although we had our photo's taken outside it and assumed this was the school he had gone to - I didn't make note of the name of it. Llanllechid National School is the school on the Gathering the Jewels page where I found his two sisters, would this have been the same school? And we did seem to find the area where Coed Y Parc was. We went for a drive around and found an old church - I have some photo's (and some WILLIAMS gravestones) if somebody can identify the church that would be good as I didn't note down the name of this one either :( We also saw Penrhyn castle and a lovely little estate of houses nearby but didn't visit inside the castle. Sorry to have rambled on.........but I really do think Arlene needs to get a webpage up and running!! I can see by all these unanswered questions of mine that I really do need to pay another SERIOUS visit to the area. Thanks and Regards Barbara in sunny Sydney via rainy Liverpool

Barbara, The church was probably St. Anne's. It was built by Lord Penrhyn after the drift fell and covered the original St. Anne's and much of Coed y Parc. They didn't realize the quarry would grow as fast as it did, and this was the reason the orginal church was buried along with many graves of our ancestors. However, I do think that the records were saved, but not sure. The church is now closed as it was in need of much repair. It combined with another church, but not sure which. I believe it's now in Cilgeraint. I'll have to check this information to make sure it's correct. Arlene > Dear All, > > Thank you very very much to the many, many people who have responded to my > requests for maps, quarry locations and identifying places. > > I have found an old map online on http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ which has > been > very useful, I will send it to myself at work and print out on A3 paper so > it is easier to see. I do have a road map of Great Britain which has of > course come in handy for modern places. > > I was born in Liverpool and lived in the UK until I was 28 before > migrating > to Australia (I still have the accent to prove it too!!) and have been > back > quite a few times over the years and although I always make a point of > going > to Wales (land of my fathers??) I have never been back at the same time as > I > have had an interest in family history matters as this is something I seem > to "take up and put down" at various times. So my visits have always been > as a kind of "tourist" rather than as a family historian I suppose. > > I was last back home in October 2002 and did visit Bethesda with my > sister. > We found 4 Bryn Owen Street where our grandfather Thomas John WILLIAMS was > born, there was a village school nearby and although we had our photo's > taken outside it and assumed this was the school he had gone to - I > didn't > make note of the name of it. Llanllechid National School is the school on > the Gathering the Jewels page where I found his two sisters, would this > have > been the same school? > > And we did seem to find the area where Coed Y Parc was. We went for a > drive > around and found an old church - I have some photo's (and some WILLIAMS > gravestones) if somebody can identify the church that would be good as I > didn't note down the name of this one either :( > > We also saw Penrhyn castle and a lovely little estate of houses nearby but > didn't visit inside the castle. > > Sorry to have rambled on.........but I really do think Arlene needs to get > a > webpage up and running!! > > I can see by all these unanswered questions of mine that I really do need > to > pay another SERIOUS visit to the area. > > Thanks and Regards > Barbara in sunny Sydney via rainy Liverpool > > > > ==== 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 > > >