Bodfean, Caernavon

[redjed1]

Hi I have two ancestors (Thomas Roberts & Catherine Jones) who, I think (on Ancestry), were married in Bodfean, Caernavon in 1803. If they were my relatives they lived in Newborough (on Anglesey). I know a lot of Newborough registrations were made in Caernavon around this time, but can anyone tell me where Bodfean, Caernavon is please?
John

[wrjones]

Bodfean Parish Church is in this Parish;
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CAE/Bodvean/index.html

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[redjed1]

Hi William, thanks for that.
It's a long way to this church from Newborough. I notice Bodfean had a Methodist chapel, but wasn't built until 1827.
I visited Newborough a while ago and found a lovely Ebeneser chapel (built 1785), where the bride was eventually buried. I was wondering whether they were married here and the records were kept at Bodfean, if it was a larger church?
What do you think?
John

[wrjones]

It is seemingly a long way from Newborough.Were both parties to the marriage from Newborough?

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[redjed1]

Yes William, I think so, but I have not found their births yet. Both had died by 1851, so I can't use census information.

But what you suggest is a possibility.

John

[wrjones]

Have you found them in 1841?They don't show up too readily to me?

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[Gadget]

Hi  John and WR

How sure are you that the couple who married in 1803 are your ancestors?  I've checked a number of sources and, apart from the one you mention, the only reference to them is on Family Search:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FGWT-BJ9
(Batch number - M08267-1)

This, I gather, is the Ancestry source. It's a 'pukka' Batch number but  unless one of the couple lived at Bodfean before marriage and those are banns, I can't think why they'd marry there. I don't think it would be a chapel only marriage at that date 

One think that might confuse is from the link to Genuki that WR gave in reply #1 :

Bodvean Hall, the old seat of the Wynnes, is now the residence of Lord Newborough." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)

I've get some old CDs  out and see if I can find anything more.


Gadget

[redjed1]

Hi William and Gadget

I've just found Thomas, so don't know when he died (can't find him on the 1841). Catherine died in  1849 (from her gravestone), but I can't find her on the 1841.

Their son Thomas was christened 6/3/1802 at Enenezer Chapel, Bangor. The record says his father Thomas was a smith from (I think) Llanidan. In the 1841 he is at Tan-y-grisia, Newborough with his wife Margaret Jones and family in another part of the house.

So, I'm not 100% sure this marriage is my Thomas'. It's just that the names are right and Newborough records were from Caernavon at this time. I was hoping for more information from the Ancestry record.

John