Hi Gerry, We were very interested to see your posting on the "Berry" family. Our family tree is one of the MORTIMER's, Mary (REVILL) SCHWARZ's ggrandfather was a John Mortimer B. circ. 1848 ,married to an Elizabeth Smith b. circ.1849. Johns brother was a Stephen Mortimer married to a Leticia Berry. Stephen apparently owned the family farm in Pembrockshire ( ? Stenton area). Leticia was a cousin to Lord Camrose and Lord Kelmsley. Have you got any information on this branch of the family ? John and Stephen Mortimer's parents may have been a Benjamine Mortimer from Camrose, and a Mary Mortimer possible from Llawhaden. In 1851 Benjamine lived in Redstock/Steynton . In 1861 it appears the family moved to Rosemarket, a farm called Bastleford. The son Stephen appears ended his days in Pelcombe Bridge, near Haverford West. Regards Herb and Mary (Revill) Schwarz in sunny Ontario,Canada <schwarzs@ebtech.net> -----Original Message----- From: Gerry <gerry@asterisk.co.uk> To: WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE-L@rootsweb.com <WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:57 PM Subject: [WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE] Berry family of Camrose and later Merthyr Tydfil >Hi Listers > >Today's "Times" of London has an obituary of Lord Hartwell (formerly Michael >Berry), a life peer. > >extract: "The Berry family's was a remarkable history of entrepeneurialism. >Born into a modest home in Merthyr Tydfil, Bill Berry [William Ewart Berry, >Michael's father] the future Lord Cmrose, came to London to start at the >bottom of periodical journalism. By the 1920s he and his brother [John] >Gomer Berry (who became Lord Kelmsley) had built up an empire of magazines >and regional and national newspapers." > >Bits inside [] indicate my additions. > >There was actually another brother - Henry Seymour Berry who became Baron >Buckland. The three were sons of John Mathias Berry (born 2 May 1847) and >Mary Anne Rowe, who married 24 May 1870. > >John Berry was the son of J(ohn?) Berry and Rebecca Mathias, who married 14 >Nov 1846. > >Rebecca (born 1816) was a daughter of Henry Mathias, farmer, of Wolfsdale in >the parish of Camrose. > >If anyone is interested in the families called Mathias from Camrose, I have >some information. I am descended from Philip Mathias, another farmer, of >Camrose. > >Gerry Lewis >

on 4/4/01 6:17 pm, Schwarz family at schwarzs@ebtech.net wrote: > Hi Gerry, We were very interested to see your posting on the "Berry" family. > Our family tree is one of the MORTIMER's, Mary (REVILL) SCHWARZ's > ggrandfather was a John Mortimer B. circ. 1848 ,married to an Elizabeth > Smith b. circ.1849. Johns brother was a Stephen Mortimer married to a > Leticia Berry. Stephen apparently owned the family farm in Pembrockshire ( ? > Stenton area). Leticia was a cousin to Lord Camrose and Lord Kelmsley. Have > you got any information on this branch of the family ? John and Stephen > Mortimer's parents may have been a Benjamine Mortimer from Camrose, and a > Mary Mortimer possible from Llawhaden. In 1851 Benjamine lived in > Redstock/Steynton . In 1861 it appears the family moved to Rosemarket, a > farm called Bastleford. The son Stephen appears ended his days in Pelcombe > Bridge, near Haverford West. Regards Herb and Mary (Revill) Schwarz in sunny > Ontario,Canada <schwarzs@ebtech.net> Hi Herb and Mary I'm sorry to say I have no more information on the Berrys than that I gave in my original posting. Unless I can prove some connection between my Philip Mathias and their Henry Mathias then I won't spend any time on the Berrys. Gerry Lewis