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Denbighshire / Re: Pentrefielas
« on: Tuesday 09 October 18 11:20 BST (UK) »
Hi Wilcoxon, thank you for your suggestion. I’ve found the farm on that site.
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Denbighshire / Re: Bryn Heilyn, Pentrefoelas
« on: Tuesday 09 October 18 09:56 BST (UK) »
Hi Hanes Teulu, thank you so much for the reference to the library journals - most interesting. I did visit the farm a few years ago when we were travelling home from Chester to Neath. Very remote on the windswept moor with only the sheep for company! Unfortunately there was nobody at home the day we visited do could only see the outside. Robert Roberts, my ggg grandfather, lived there in the early 1800’s, all his children were born there ( the youngest in 1816.) By 1841 he was living in Chester and died there in 1844. His wife’s obit in 1855 describes him as a tanner, skinner and farmer. I like the story from 1831 about Hugh Roberts who drowned on the Sabbath! I’m currently following various inhabitants of the farm to try and work out if they are related to my Roberts family .
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Denbighshire / Re: Bryn Heilyn, Pentrefoelas
« on: Monday 08 October 18 08:52 BST (UK) »
Got it! Thank you Hanes Teulu!
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Denbighshire / Re: Bryn Heilyn, Pentrefoelas
« on: Monday 08 October 18 08:35 BST (UK) »
Diolch Hanes Teulu, I’ll have another go!
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Denbighshire / Re: Bryn Heilyn, Pentrefoelas
« on: Sunday 07 October 18 21:33 BST (UK) »
Welsh tithe maps - places of Wales, followed by two search boxes. I typed “Bryn Heilyn” in the top box. It bought up every farm with Bryn in the name.
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Denbighshire / Re: Bryn Heilyn, Pentrefoelas
« on: Sunday 07 October 18 18:19 BST (UK) »
Diolch Hanes Teulu, despite following your instruction for the link I can’t seem to find it.
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Denbighshire / Pentrefielas
« on: Sunday 07 October 18 09:35 BST (UK) »
Hi, looking for someone who has local knowledge of this area. I’m trying to find out more about a farm called Bryn Heilyn ( it’s stoll in existence ). My GGGrandmother was born there in 1812 but by the 1830’s the family were living in Cheshire/Lancashire. I’m interested in the History of the farm - Denbighshire archives have nothing about it. The name interests me Heilyn - as its associated with the Goch family of Betws and Penmachno - as Robert Roberts in reportedly a lineal descendant.
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Denbighshire / Re: Bryn Heilyn, Pentrefoelas
« on: Saturday 06 October 18 15:29 BST (UK) »
I called at Denbigh Archives a few weeks ago but despite help from the lovely staff I didn’t find anything new. I did, however, find an obit notice for Marjory Roberts that I’d forgotten about! It’s from 1855 and mentions her late husband and the fact that he was a decendent if the Goch’s of Betws and Penmachno. This ties in with notes I received from a now deceased cousin claiming the connection. I wonder if the farm name, Bryn Heilyn, is a reference to Heilyn?
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Staffordshire Lookup Requests / Re: Burial 1915
« on: Thursday 17 May 18 19:56 BST (UK) »
My late Mother, John Walters half sister, said that he had infantile paralysis which I thought was another name for Polio? I did manage to find out where he was baptised by ringing around Churches local to Gravelly Hill. Sadly, I've lost the name of the Church but do remember the lady I spoke to telling me that he was baptised two days after his birth.That seems quick to me. Maybe he was born with a problem and not expected to survive? Perhaps his Mother was looking for a cure?