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Dear Geoff,

I am so sorry to have been so slow in responding to your very full response to my look up request.  I've been away from the computer for a while.  Thank you for all this marvellous material which I shall work through.  It looks very promising.  Best wishes for 2005, Emma

Thank you for this.  I'm not sure there's a link, however, because I don't know what happened to the Oswells in the second half of the 19th century.  I have a Mary Oswell (b. 1823), the daughter of John Oswell, who married Thomas Cleobury in 1842 in Astley Abbotts church.  They lived for most of their lives in Broseley.  Her residence is given as Astley Abbotts at the time of the wedding and her father's occupation looks like 'waterman'.  Do let me know if your subsequent researches indicate a link with between your Richard and my Mary.  Best wishes, Emma

Thank you very much for this advice.  No, I don't at this stage know anything about his parents and therefore wonder whether what I have is precise enough to ask the library to undertake a search.  All I know is that he would have been a boy in Llangefni (possibly) aged 9, called John Williams Hughes.   But I'll have a go.  Thanks again.  Best wishes, Emma 

Thanks.  Unfortunately he was living in Broughton-in-Salford, Lancs., by 1871 (aged 19) and was still there at the age of 29 (married with children by then).  All I know is that he lists Llangefni as his birthplace and that my father has a book (presumably of his), undated, inscribed 'Mona Drug Hall, Llangefni'.  The paternal side of his family are all from further south - Montgomery area - and this is the only indication we have that his mother's side might have had Anglesey origins.  Many thanks for your interest, Emma Disley