Dolbenmaen Cemetery

[malijibic]

Memorial card indicates that gg grandmother buried in Dolbenmaen Cemetery.
Is this cemetery a municipal or a Church Cemetery ?
Is Dolbenmaen and Garn Dolbenmaen near to one another or are they two names for the same village?
Have the Memorial Inscriptions been published?
Thank you for reading my post

[nestagj]

Hello there
Dolbenmaen is a church cemetery;
Dolbenmaen is the parish and Garndolbenmaen is a village within the parish.
The MI have been published by Gwynedd FHS but there are many unmarked graves there .
What was your g grandmothers name and date of burial ?

Edit sorry couldn’t see the card properly on my phone

Regards
Nesta

[malijibic]

Thank you for replying, we went to Garndolbenmaen looking for a cemetery with no luck.
The memorial card is for  Ellen Roberts, wife of Robert Roberts, Bryn Marlwyd.  She died Feb 7  1902.
Wondering whether her husband was buried with her or with his first wife.
Could you please tell me where the Dolbenmaen church is as I hope to come to Caernarvonshire in the near future. (on a cemetery crawl !!!!)

[nestagj]

Set set nav to LL51 9RQ

That should take you to pretty close to the church.... it’s just off the main Porthmadog to Caernarfon road .... about 4 miles from Porthmadog .
I’m sorry can’t help much more ... still looking my G grand parents’ grave there and I also have cousin .... a premature baby who was buried with them !

[malijibic]

Thank you very much, will stop there on our way to Llanwnda.  Diolch yn fawr

[nestagj]

My pleasure

[EmyrBorth]

Hi
As I said to you in PM, had been to Cemetery but failed to find the grave. There is a small Baptist cemetery in Garndolbenmaen with just a few graves, you have to climb a wall to get into it so I only looked at the ones near enough to read from outside.
Been to Caernarfon this afternoon and looked at microfiche copy of the MIs for both. Ellen is buried in the parish church (Santes Fair) situated as described by 'nestagj'. There is a plan of the cemetery; I'll call there again and hopefully find the grave.
The inscription only refers to the burial of Ellen - roughly translates:
In loving memory of Ellen Roberts, dear spouse of Robert Roberts, Bron Marlwyd, Garn, who died 10th of February 1902, aged 73 yrs.
The death date 10th might be a mistranscription.
Do you know the name and death/burial details of his first wife ?
Emyr

[Mabel Bagshawe]

I've found a report of the inquest into Robert Roberts' death, but nothing on his funeral - not sure if you know the details

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4247150/4247157/27/

Appears he fell into the fire, or his clothing caught fire.  You might also be interested in the detail that he built Bron Marlwyd himself, and no-one was sure how he managed to move the very large rocks ha were used

[malijibic]

Thank you both for the information, I now need to find my notes on Ellen.  I have been trying to find more about the family for years and posted the Memorial Card on here as I found a scan of it on the pc while looking for something else.  My grandmother had told me many a time that her grandmother had died of shock after being burnt but she never said anything about Robert Roberts.
The inquest report for her grandmother had survived so I will try to find if an inquest was held and if the report has survived.
Thank you all very much.