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Significant names from England are BRAILSFORD, EYRE, HANSLOW,
LANGLEY, RAY, SCOTSON, STOREY, TYSON. Families from Derbyshire, Lancashire,
Leicestershire, Nottingham, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire. In
particular Bilston, Coniston, Dudley, Hope, Lilleshall and Mansfield areas.
Significant names from Wales are JONES, LLOYD, THOMAS, TYSON,
WILLIAMS. Families from Gwynedd and Anglesey, in particular Blaenau
Ffestiniog, Dolwyddelen, Llanfrothen and Llanielien areas.
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Robert LANGLEY is our earliest Langley ancestor and he remains an enigma, although
we did have the good fortune to be able to locate a Settlement Examination
paper for him in Shropshire. Without that paper we would have hit a brick
wall, it told us where he was born and his fathers name, which led us to
Derbyshire, however, we have now hit the proverbial brick wall because we
discovered he was baptised Robert LONGDEN! We are still trying to solve the
name mystery. In the meantime you can read a little of the story HERE
Our
BRAILSFORD family hail from
Nottingham, my mother's mum was Minnie Beatrice Brailsford, sadly we never
knew her, as she died when mum was just five years old. Mum was well loved
by Minnies mother though, and mum, her sister and Grandad Langley lived
with Lucy Brailsford (nee EYRE) for quite a while. Our Brailsford's originally came from
Sheffield, as we traced back to our 3 x Gt Grandfather William who was
baptised at Sheffield Cathedral in 1806. Another point of interest about
the name Brailsford is that it was a Brailsford who bred the Bramley
cooking apple, although at this point in time I can't say whether it was
one of ours! We were contacted by a cousin of mum a year ago who had
noticed our Brailsford interests in the Nottingham FHS Newsletter, so it's
always worth making the effort to join local Family History Societies. I
have written a page with our Brailsford family details for quick reference,
you can take a look HERE
"Cofiant John Jones, Talysarn" this biography was published in 1872
and written by Owen Thomas. It tells of the life of the Rev John JONES,
Talysarn, how he lived, how he became active within the non conformist
community and it also tells of his family and colleagues. My brother Geoff
has translated some relevant pages from Welsh to English, some sections
deal with John Jones's passion for his faith, and some sections mention
names and places. One of the names is Angharad James our 8 x Gt
Grandmother, who was also John Jones's Gt Grandmother. Although written
many years ago, it may be of interest to those who research local history
in the area and also to those who have ancestors from the area, as there is
a mention of John Jones's siblings, some of whom went to Wisconsin, USA.
Click HERE to read the
translation.
"Another Cumbrian in Ffestiniog", an article written by John Buckley, who has kindly allowed us
to publish it here. John has researched the lives of a group of Cumbrians
who left their home villages in search of work, in fact they settled in the
area around Blaenau Ffestiniog. One of these men was John TYSON, who was
our 3 X Gt Grandfather. Reading this makes us realise how hard times must
have been, you can read the article HERE
Also another article, translated to
English by my brother Geoff, about Samuel Samuel JONES who was the son of
Ann TYSON and Samuel Jones and the brother of our Gt Grandmother Margaret
Jones. Samuel also went to Pennsylvania, but later returned! Read about S.
Jones HERE
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