Llanfair Talhaiarn - The Davies Family

[kjones]

Hi JJS

Thanks for the PM.  Unfortunately I can't seem to reply to you via PM.  Would you please send me an e-mail address that I can respond to?

Thanks

Kevin

[JJS]

Lee,

Thanks for photos - they're great!

JJS

[jonesevans]

HI I know this is quite an old post but This William Davies (Gwilym Elwy ) is my Great great great father too ! I am interested to find out if you found any songs, hymns or poems that he had written ?

[Brian Jones]

Robert Davies (Gwilym Elwy) is my great Grandfather. My Grandmother (fathers side) was another Jane Davies. I know he was married twice, grave stone is probably correct. Family story tells that he won an eisteddfod with a poem which was a eulogy to his late wife. We were sent a copy of this by my father's cousin who lived in Herefordshire. It was written in Welsh untainted by the 20th century. Beautiful and complex, it was handed to a family friend to be translated. She sadly and suddenly died the following day - nobody had the heart to ask for it back! Don't know if the eisteddfod was a local one or national. A request to a friend at Colwyn Bay Library failed to find any information on him. The house he lived at in Llanfair is now called Ty Bardd (Poet's House).

[jonesevans]

Hi Brian
Thanks for the information, I think I have a copy of this poem it was on the service sheet from Anne Davies funeral. Do you know what happened  to all the children? My great grand father was a Thomas Davies.
Janet

[despair]

If you go to the NLW site,www.llgc.org.uk,there is a section "Welsh Newspapers Online".If you use the search term "Gwilym Elwy",among the returns is a coy of an Englynion.

Regards
Roger

[dawnkaren]

just to change the subjest ever so slightly, but has anyone come across a Tabitha Williams born in Llanfair taliharn? she married a david Roberts and they had several children one of which was mary Roberts, who married a lewis davies, mary and lewis are my gt gt gt grandparents