Hi, my wife and I have just caught up with this thread whilst researching the Lloyd family of Cwm Bychan from whom she is descended. Catherine Roberts (the daughter of Henry Jones) married John Robert Lloyd (1826-1911) in December quarter 1866. She was his second wife, and his first wife (Catherine Thomas of Penycerrig, Llandanwg) had given him 10 children in 16 years. In 1870 John Robert Lloyd emigrated to Kansas, USA, with a third 'wife', Grace Jones, leaving Catherine, described as a widow in the 1871 census, to look after his first wife's children. There is a possible third marriage in Missouri in 1890 for John and Grace. Grace bore John Robert Lloyd 12 children, and there is an extensive article on the family by Dr Lewis Lloyd in the Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society, Volume 7, Part 3 (1975) and a follow up in Part 4 in 1976.
The MI for Rehoboth (Grave C032) is as follows.
Er cof mai yma y claddwyd / Margaret / gwraig Harri Jones o Borth Madawg / Saer llongau / yr hon a fu farw Rhagfyr yr 28ain 1856 / yn 74 mlwydd oed. / Hefyd y claddwyd y dywededig uchod / Harri Jones / yr hwn a fu farw y 23 o Dachwedd 1861 / yn 80 mlwydd oed. / Also to the memory of / John Jones, master mariner / eldest son of the above mentioned / Harri Jones by Catherine his first wife / who was lost in a storm near / Coldy Road, Bristol Channel on the 10th day of May 1870 / aged 48 years. / Part of the vessel was foud under / the Cliff Rock. / And likewise to the memory of / Henry Jones, Mariner, eldest sone / of the above mentioned John Jones / and Catherine his wife, died on his passage / from Liverpool: in lat. 2.5. N. Long. 23.12W / on the 18th day of March 1871, / aged 20 years
O dir a mor daw'r meirwon
Daw pob cnawd ddydd brawd ger bron
Hefyd er serchus gof am Catherine Lloyd / merch yr Harri Jones uchod / Bu farw Medi 17, 1891 yn 70 oed. / Wele myfi a'th burais, ond nid fel arian / Dewisais di mewn pair cystudd
Translated =
In remembrance that here is buried Margaret, wife of Harri Jones of Porthmadog, shipbuilder, who died Dec 28th 1856 at the age of 74. Also buried is the above mentioned Harri Jones who died 23rd of November 1861 at the age of 80. Also in loving memory of Catherine Lloyd, daughter of the above mentioned Harri Jones who died Sept 17, 1891 at the age of 70.
Hope this helps
Davyth
