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Afon Dwyryd Slate Boat Discovered
After many days of moving sand and water. Apparently there hasn't been so much coming and going down to the glastraeth between Talsarnau and Ynys Gifftan since that time when a whale was found that failed to return to the sea with the tide some time ago. Over this Sunday, October 24th 1986, like that time, a number of Talsarnau residents and others were seen walking down towards Ynys Gifftan and you could feel the intrigue and curiosity in the air - everyone asking and discussing what had appeared from the sand.
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Body Found October 4th 1862
Body Found Jane Parry's body found following ferry crash North Wales Chronicle, (Oct 4th 1862) PORTMADOC. BODY FOUND. – Our readers will remember the devastating disaster that happened several weeks ago to the Porthmadog Ferry, when eight people were unexpectedly swept into the sea. All the bodies were recovered, except that of Jane Parry, milliner, who lived at Tygwyn, on the Meirionnydd side of the river. This girl's story is extremely sad. She was the only one able to care for her widowed mother, and was highly respected by all and looked upon as a wise and good young woman. She was about to be married to a local ship's captain and that was the purpose of her trip to Portmadog to buy a wedding dress etc.,and dreaming of the groom who was waiting for her. Last Friday, an elderly man called Griffith Morris, a farmer living in Morfa Bychan…
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Captain Lewis Holland Thomas
We know little about the early childhood of Lewis Holland Thomas, but we do know that he was born in Llanrwst in 1812. His family was connected to the Wyniaid family and Lewis used to go on holidays to stay at Gwydir Castle in the Conwy Valley.
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Ellis Wynne of Lasynys
The Lasynys, the home of Ellis Wynne. The building dates from around 1600 but was extensively renovated by the writer in the period 1715-20. Ellis Wynne was a religious writer and translator.
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Evan Francis Dyrnogie Bach
Evan Francis was born in 1772 in Dyrnioga Bach, Talsarnau in the parish of Llanfihangel y Traethau. His father and mother are buried in Rehoboth Cemetery, Harlech, and on the gravestone are the following words: "Francis Evans of Mochras, who died September 23 1827. Also Lowri Evans his wife, who died12 September 1833"
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Ferry Boat Disaster
On Thursday the 7th of August 1862 one of Rees Jones' ferry boats was returning from Porthmadog to Harlech with nine passengers and two half barrels of porter. The wind had risen quite roughly from the south-west direction but no one thought there was any danger. . . . . .
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Gwyneth Vaughan
ANNIE HARRIET HUGHES : GWYNETH VAUGHAN (1852-1910) Annie Harriet Hughes, who is better known by her poetic name - Gwyneth Vaughan, was a Welsh novelist and poet.
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Iwan Morgan's Family of Old
Iwan Morgan's Family of Old SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE FAMILIES OF CEFN TREFOR FAWR, TALSARNAU (later known as Y TŶ MAWR) AND FUCHES WEN FAWR (during the 18th century)
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J H Jones Editor
J H was born at Ty ar y Graig in Talsarnau on May 29th 1860 to William and Beti Jones. His father worked for Mr Barker who was a gardener at the mansion, Glyn Cywarch. When JH was born his father earned fourteen shillings a week and on that eleven children were brought up.
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John Ieuan Jones Poet
He was born in 1924 and had his primary education at Ysgol Talsarnau and then at Barmouth Grammar School.
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John Kelt Edwards Artist
John Kelt Edwards was born on 4th March 1875 one of 6 children to Jonathan and Margaret Edwards who kept an Ironmongers Shop called Berlin House in Blaenau Ffestiniog.
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Memoirs of the late R Tecwyn Jones
MEMOIRS of the late R Tecwyn Jones, 8 St James Drive, Bangor LLAIS 1981 When entering the village of Talsarnau from the direction of Maentwrog, the garage on the right is the very first thing that catches one's attention.
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Old Ruins in the Llandecwyn Parish
Old Ruins of the Area Competition at the Brontecwyn Chapel Meeting February 5th 1925The Old Ruins of Llandecwyn and the families that last lived in them (by the late Esther Jones, Caerwych)
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Recollections of Nel Llenyrch
Living and Working on a Remote Farm in Llandecwyn I went to Llenyrch at 15 years old, having served before that for four years, after my mother's death when I was eleven years old. Llenyrch was a wonderful home. The salary - ten shillings a week for twenty years - 50p a week in today’s money,. Went from there for a while after getting married to live in Manod, but back again, both of us this time, to finish the twenty years. Healthy food, produced on the farm, which is Siot, finely ground Oatmeal bread, with buttermilk on it, Brwas, Two milk posset - boiled milk and pour it on a little buttermilk, Llymru, Porridge, Oats or Rice, White Sican, Cosyn Caws Cartref, Home-made honey. They kept bees. Also made Mead - if you drank a lot of that, you would be sure to be drunk, but they used…
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Recollections of the Blind Harpist
The Conversation DGW - The first memory I have of him coming to Dalsarnau years ago. I was very young, and two men, if I remember correctly - Wmffra Williams and my father, going to meet him and carrying his harp up to Talsarnau and there was a concert at the school. I remember the concert and there was great fun there, with all kinds of singing, which pleased everyone. Questioner - Were you raising funds at the time? DGW - Yes, towards Soar Chapel. Questioner - You don't remember which year? DGW - It was somewhere around I would say 1910, maybe earlier. 1910 is quite close I'd say....I went to serve then....I served in Barmouth in 1916 and 1917 and I came into very close contact with him - I would get a parcel of clean clothes from Talsarnau from my mother and there was a girl coming to Barmouth…
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Rev D Tecwyn Evans - Minister, Lecturer,…
David Tecwyn Evans was born in a cottage called Aberdeunant Uchaf in the parish of Llandecwyn in Ardudwy on the 5th of December 1876.
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Rhai o Drigolion Talsarnau yn Ystod yr…
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Richard Hughes
His full name was Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE (19/4/1900 – 28/4/1976). He was born in Weybridge, Surrey, the son of Arthur Hughes, a civil servant, and his mother was Louisa Grace Warren who had grown up in Jamaica.
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SOAR DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
SOAR DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR Soar was a small Welsh village, sheltered under Allt Cefntrefor and Clogwyn Gwyn. During the war, and for many years afterwards, with the Chapel (Wesleyan) as a central point, there were fourteen houses and ten belonging to the Chapel, one car, a few motorbikes and many small bikes. Most of the people would be walking everywhere, everyone being neighbourly and looking out for each other. There was disagreement a few times, but I only remember the good times. I lived there until I was about 11 years old and when I moved to Pengelli, a quarter of a mile away, after the war, I missed Soar immensely, and often walked to the top of Rhiw Garth to see if everything was alright there, and went to the Chapel on Sundays. Three 'bakers' would come from around the area, Dic from Trawsfynydd, Alun and…
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Tecwyn Jones Remembers Llanw Mawr
This is a copy of a letter received from the late Mr Tecwyn Jones, 8 Heol Dewi, Bangor Ucha, Bangor, reminiscing about the tidal wave when he was a 9-year-old boy at the time. Many thanks to him for getting in touch.
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Ted Breeze Jones Naturalist
He was born in 1929 in the Cae Clyd area, Manod, Blaenau Ffestiniog. He attended Manod and Maenofferen schools before moving to Ffestiniog Grammar School in 1940. He lost his parents when he was only 9 years old and was adopted by Martha and Humphrey Williams, 8 Stryd Dorfil, Blaenau Ffestiniog.
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The Turf Industry at Talsarnau
For those who know the Talsarnau area, most of the village is located at the bottom of a steep hill. The main street and many other buildings including the school, the community centre etc. are very slightly above sea level and in order to protect the area, a tidal embankment was built as a defence in the nineteenth century.
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The Turkestan Shipwrecked 1876
The "Turkestan" would have been a square sail-ship similar to the image. This is a shortened version of a report by Fanny and Ethel Holland Thomas - the daughters of Captain Lewis Holland Thomas from Caerffynnon, Talsarnau - from the book "The Caerffynnon Story" written by Heulwen Isambard Owen and Hedydd Isambard Owen published in 1973.
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Two Drowned on Traeth Bach
'Baner ac Amserau Cymru Newspaper', Wednesday, December 17th, 1856. TALSARNAU, - An inquest was held last Friday in front of Mr Griffith Jones Williams, estate agent,on two bodies, namely William Owens and Edmund Jones, who were in the service of L. H. Thomas Esq., Cae'r Ffynnon, Talsarnau who were found drowned while attempting to cross Traeth Bach.
