catherine mary (kate) williams/edwards

[mollymandysb]

can anyone hep please.  my great grandmother, catherine mary williams married morris edwards in 1900. they lived in llanfor, bala and then gresford.

on the 1901 census i can find kate with her husband morris, kate says she was born in brymbo, meirionithshire.  i have tried to trace her further back and can find a catherine mary williams living in brymbo but this is showing as denbighshire in 1881.  on catherine and morris marriage cert it says her dad was john lloyd, so i presume she was illegitmate but on 1881 censu catherine seems to have a brother two years older than her and sisters younger.

also does anyone know if (proper) long row, brymbo still exists.

thanks

[nibbs]

hi brymbo is in wrexham not far from gresford i know long row was called rhes-pen-y-graig

[mollymandysb]

Hi Nibbs

tx for reply, i will look at the address u gave me.  strangely enough i used to live in Ffrith, not far from Brymbo.  my mom was born in Llay, so was quite surprised to find that great grany came from B rymbo.  Possibly why her and my great grand dad moved from Bala to Gresford to be near her mom.

tx

[jmo12]

Hi

I was born in Brymbo and I can inform you that Long Row was completely flatenned long ago and was a car park for the Brymbo steelworks way back in the 1950s. I was born in 1941 and I it did not exist when I was growing up. Sorry!

Regards
John

[mollymandysb]

hi everyone, it turns out thtat catherine williams, my great granny was born in bryncroes and not brymbo. 

thanks

molly