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My gg grandfather John Williams born 24/12/1836 in Mold was ship's cook on a schooner Jane Ellen which was in Port Dinorwic in 1860. This is the only solid evidence of his seagoing apart from still having his sea chest in the family.

He was in Milford St Mold in 1851 with his parents and in 1861 he is in Liverpool having just been married and I have all his details from then to his burial in Hope in 1904.

I have been through the seamans records in Kew and the crew lists in Caernarfon and the lists on seamen in Chester ships (in Harwarden) but cannot find anything. Nor can I find any mention of a seaman of any sort born in Mold. The only connection of Mold to the sea that I have found is a mention that mariners from the ships in Connahs Quay used to go to the red light area of Mold. Hard to imagine but there you are. The area was Love Lane which was and is at the bottom of Milford St. I hope that is not J.W.s connection, but you never know.

Does anyone know of others from Mold who went to sea around that time or of any local influence such as schools which might have pointed him in that direction. His father was an ag. lab./gardener so no help there. He must have been able to write in English as he was in the post office in Liverpool from 1865 on.

Any suggestions please Alan Williams 

Before the war my parents took us on several holidays to a caravan near the lead mine at Gwernymynydd. It was in a corner of a field by the ruin of a cottage which is still there very much overgrown and fenced off so I couldn't get in or see what was there now.
The site is just south of the present Fron farm and near the footpath from ffordd Glyndwr to Bryn Goleu.
The caravan was actually an old horse drawn furniture van converted and could sleep four adults and four children in a very cramped way.
The van I understand was part owned by Ernest Davies who was a friend of my parents and he had relatives in Nercwys who they used to visit when there.
My interest now is that as my g.g.grandfather Peter Williams was born in Nercwys in 1802, son of John and Elizabeth I am trying to pinpoint that John. There was the one who was curate from 1801 who at one time owned Fron but I can't find his wife's name and as Peter became an ag. lab. and gardener it seems unlikely his father was a curate.
 In 1901 Fron is occupied by a Williams and Bryn Goleu by a Davies and this is only twenty odd years before my parents and Ernest and his wife Lily Gorvin started going there.
Can anyone help me with info. about Davies's or Williams's who might fit into this set up in any way.
We and the Davies's lived in Liverpool and they had a son Ainsley Gorvin Davies.
Thanks for any hints. Alan Williams
 

Can anyone help with this please.
My g.grandfather sailed on a barque called EMMA as seaman in 1845. In Lloyd's register for 1845 she is listed as built in Hull 1826, 308 (or 380)tons, owner T Smith. At that time she was registered in Scarborough and did a trip Liverpool to Sydney and back while my g.g was onboard.
Any info about the ship or shipbuilding about then would help. All I get on the net is about fishing vessels and tugs
Thank you Alan Williams. 

Margaret Wright of Bromfield married Thomas Baylis mariner 17/02/1805 in Crosscanonby. In 1851 she is in Maryport and gives birthplace as Abbey. I cannot find her birth in Abbey Coultram or any of the other five places called Abbey.

The witnesses on the marriage are Richard and Robert Wood who at one time where connected to St James's Whitehaven. But I have been though all the non-conformist and quaker records without success.

Margaret was my g.g.grandmother and died, still in Maryport, in 1862. Three generations of Thomas Baylis's were mariners in Maryport and the first one married a Mary Ritson in 1770 which is the first appearance of the name in Cumberland.
Can anyone shed any light on Margaret please. Thanks for reading. Alan