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Y CEFN    
These are some historical notes on a lost cottage of  Ffestiniog, where a family thrived and prospered and  some memories of childhood day are recalled.

Most of the high tract of rough land or plateau, known locally as Y Cefn is bounded roughly by three roads viz. The B4391( Bala Rd from Ffestiniog), the unclassified road to Bont Newydd ( running parallel  to the Roman road  Sarn Helen), and the A470 from Bontnewydd to Llan Ffestiniog. Most of the land is on O.S square 710 410. About 2/3 of this area delineated is Y Cefn.  It has been  owned by the Crown from distant historical times, with rights of pasture and turbary.  Today it is rented to the Ffestiniog Golf Club and to three farms Llety Fadog, Bwlch Hwfa & Llety Gwilym. The other 1/3 is privately owned and annexed to Tyn Ffridd/ Ty Coch/ Bodlosgad/Tyddyn Gwyn . All of this land is grazed by sheep; there is now no arable crops on the land. For a very good account of the Golf Club on Y Cefn see the excellent account in the bilingual book published in December 1992.This book details the history of the Golf from 1893 to 1993.

Paths and cart/drovers roads( ffordd drol) used to criss-cross the land-some to bypass the tollgates. One such road used to start at Llan Ffestiniog or  Tyn Ffridd farm, past Cefn farm and Llyn y Cefn to join the unclassified road. There are three lakes of differing sizes on Y Cefn and also a few small quarries or pits. These were used to obtain stones and material for building local houses, road foundations and boundary walls. There are three sites on Y Cefn where people have built some form of dwellings, viz. Cefn semidetached farm cottages, Ochr y Cefn and Ty Unos? The land is about 900- 1,000ft above sea level and is normally very windy. The annual rainfall is about 80 ins., about four times the British Isles average. The panoramic view from Y Cefn, of Manod/ Snowdon / Moelwyn/ Vale of Maentwrog and Yr Hiniog is unrivalled -see photographs.

The little farm known as Ty’r Cefn is situated on Y Cefn, just above the village of Llan Ffestiniog OS Ref Sht 124  709415). The holding is private property and is now in ruins. It is accessed from Tyn ffridd on the A 470 road. In the census it is referred to as Cefn and sometimes as Cefn Bodloesgad. Once there were two adjacent abodes here. There were a few arable fields and part of  Ffridd Pengwern was also farmed by the occupants of Cefn. The well where water was obtained is about 200yds to the north of the house. The place named Cefn should not be confused with Ochr y Cefn which is a different homestead altogether, nearer to Penffridd. There is an indication that there was another abode here, on Y Cefn, called Ty Unos ( near Clogwyn Ty Unos) It was a small dwelling ‘ built’ in one night. I am not certain of the location of this  Ty Unos. (See note c & g pages 6 & 7)

In the Victorian era the little farm holding was occupied by the Job & Lewis family. Most of what follows is the history of this family. The historical factual information is obtained from old maps, census, Ffestiniog burial records, the Golf Club book mentioned above and finally memories of childhood days at Tyn Ffridd, Llan Ffestiniog in the 1930’s. 

 The earliest references we have are the  census:-

1841 Lewis Job, 51(b 1790);Gwen Job(nee Evans) 57 (1783);Job,20(1821);Evan,19(1822); John,17(1824);Elin,15(1826)

1842  Cefn holding owner Rev Lloyd Wynne- see note (f), page 7.

1843/1850 Grave record (280) Lewis Job of Cefn Bodlosgead died 27.5.1843 53 yr.old . Also his son Job d. 26.8.1843 (22 yr.old). Gwen his (LJ’s)wife27.4.1844 (60yr) also in memory of Thomas son of Cadwalader & Elin ( nee Lewis) Evans, Pant Llwyd d.7.8.1850 aged 8 mo. old. According to Lewis Job’s record of 1843 the cause of death was “ Been hurted at Diphwys Quarry by large portion of a rock falling on him”

 1851   

     At No. 1 Cefn lived the following family:-

 David Jones Head     31   b.1820

Laura             Wife     27   b.1824 Could she be dau. of the Lewis Job &Gwen?

John Jones

 David Jones

 Griffith Ephraim        18 Who were they?  Lodgers.

 Joseph Ephraim           7 (his son)

 At no.2 Cefn :- There was only one Lewis i.e. John Lewis -   Head - unmaried - aged 26 -   b. 1825 (son of L.J.and Gwen, his wife.

About ¼ mile away from Cefn, as the crow flies, at Tyddyn Gwyn Bach  ( O.S. Ref 716 411) or maybe at nearby “Yr Hen Dy” Tyddyn Gwyn ( 717 410) lived, Evan Lewis  (Gwen & Lewis Job’s son  brother of the above John Lewis) and his family. They were listed as follows:-

Evan Lewis   Head       29     b. at Ffestiniog 1822

Elinor  (nee Owen)            28     b. Traws           1823

Evan                                   8           “                   1843

Job                                      7       b. Ffestiniog     1844

Gwen                                  3                  “             1848

Solomon Owen (Salmon)   9 mo.                          1850

 There was also Elinor Jones; Head; widow; aged 83 pauper. How, if all, is she is related?

1861 

Cefn census for this year gives the following information. Evan Lewis and his wife Elinor (Elen) had moved from Tyddyn Gwyn to Cefn in1852

Evan Lewis  39;

Elinor 39;

Gwen 18;

Solomon 16;

 Jane 3;

Elinor6;

Alice 4;

 We see that  Job Lewis,  ( 1845 -      ),their son, was a 16 year old servant at the adjacent farm, Tyn Ffridd.

1871  Evan Lewis            49        b.1822

Ellen ( nee Owen)            49         ”

Solomon                           20           1851

Ellinor                             16           1855

Ann                                   13           1858

 Lewis Job Lewis              8             1863

 William W Owen  I have not recorded his age. Was he a father or a brother to the wife Ellen,above

1881   Cefn

  Evan Lewis   widower    58

with his youngest daughter and son Anne 23  and Lewis Job Lewis 18. The only indications we have of the other Cefn children is a follows a)the son Evan at Pant Llwyd with his (1^st?) wife Eliza(beth) and 3 young children.

 b 1) Job and Catherine Lewis ( see memorial 748) died 10.9.1887 aged 43 (born1844) ;11.12.1894 aged 46 (born 1842), respectively.

b 2) a Job Lewis 36 and his wife Katie 38 and son Job Lewis 7 at school house with the Headmaster? Gomer Bevan ( Blaenau School?) ( this J.L. is our Lewis Job Lewis’s older brother- see (b) above

 c)  Solomon aged  30 is a border with an Evan Evans 39, Mary Evans, his wife 43, Evan Lewis! Evans 5- what, if any, is the connection?. Was Mary a young aunt or an older sister to Solomon?

 d) Also living at Cefn in 1881 was Job I Lloyd age 32 a Quarryman; his wife Gwen Lloyd,33 (born 1848);C.E.Lloyd daughter 9; &Evan L Lloyd 7.

 e) There is a memorial stone ( 747) to a Gwen Lloyd ( 22.2.1882 ( 34, born 1848 ) wife of John Lloyd, Cefn This is the Gwen who was aged three in the 1851 census?. It fits.

 f) We cannot find any trace of the other two daughters of Cefn, viz. Jane and Ellin.

1891

Evan Lewis is still at Cefn, a widower, aged 68, with a servant Mary Jones age 20. Who was Mary Jones?

1893

The Ffestiniog Golf Club was formed. See attachment  Note that Ty’r Cefn is incorrectly referred to as a barn in the booklet. See photo of Ty’r Cefn with a chimney-taken about 1950

1900

          Evan Lewis died 19.9.1900 (746). His daughter Anne also died a year later, the wife of J.H. Jones,

But was this the end of the story and also the association of the Lewises with Y Cefn?. If you are still curious, read on!

In the early 1900 William Edwards ( his mother was Mary- nee Price- of Caegwair Cwm Prysor) and his large family moved to Cefn; probably occupying both houses. Many of his descendants still live locally. His daughter Esther, aged over 90, who lives today in California was born at Cefn.. She has no direct memories of Cefn as the family moved to live to Tanbryn, Panllwyd when she was very young. I have made enquiries but I cannot establish if anyone lived there between 1910 & 1930 or was it taken over by the Golf Club. On the death,in 1930, of my uncle, William C. Jones, in 1930, my parents Ellin & Dafydd Price took up the tenancy of Tyn ffridd and the little Cefn holding.What follos is partly my recollection

Early childhood days were very impressional at Tyn ffridd and like most parents we were well nurtured. We took part in the varied activities of the farm etc We went to the Band of Hope, on Friday night and Sunday School on Sunday mornings- there was no radio or television, no electricity to run them. Nothing but nature to attract our attention.  Sometimes there were clear night to view the night skies. We were shown the constellation Orion, after whom my sister,Ori, was named, the Plough, the Seven Sisters  and how to find the pole star. I well remember the excitement of an eclipse of the sun which we viewed from Y Cefn. The night before we had busied ourselves to blacken pieces of glass on a smoky candle. We were woken at about 4.30 a.m. and walked up to Y Cefn through the iron gate to ffridd Pengwern - it is still there today see photograph - to witness the spectacular event. I remember that it was a clear morning with heavy dew on the lush pasture and cold. I could not quite comprehend what was really happening but I was impressed by the large crescent shaped  sun. I do not remember whether the larks and the curlews, which were in abundance in those bygone days, fell silent or not.

 Another time on Y Cefn, in Ffridd Pengwern, Frank Evans and his son Oscar Wyn lit a big bon fire of old tyres to celebrate the 1937 Coronation. I could well imagine the scar is still theretoday.

 About this time also, 1937, there occurred an event which initiated these historical notes.

 A man and his wife stopped their car to chat with my father. Cars were still relatively rare in rural Wales. This was no ordinary car and it owners were obviously well to do, certainly better off than our family. ‘Bobol ddiarth a bobol fawr’ we would call them. He first spoke in excellent Ffestiniog Welsh to my father. He said that he came from Liverpool and had been brought up at Cefn and that his name was Lewis Job Lewis. He remembered my father, as a young boy, and he knew his father, Dafydd Price , Brongoronwy. Like most  Ffestiniog people they started to reminisce about various people and places in the Cwm. I wonder if they realised that his first wife Alice and Dafydd Price were related.

Old Job Lewis, as we children called him, had a long tale to tell about his time at Cefn. He owed his whole prosperity to what he had been taught at Cefn –by a cow! About 1880 one of Evan Lewis’s cows at Cefn was ill; she could not stand on her feet after calving. Job was a young lad and was interested in the cow’s wellbeing. It is common for cows to suffer from milk fever ( hypocalcaemia ) due to loss of calcium in the blood – calcium been  required to form the bones of the calf. The cow sometimes loses consciousness or paralysis of the legs and has to be hoisted on its feet by some form of a sling. Whether Job had read somewhere that animal in the wild did not suffer from such disease, we do not know but he was interested and obviously ‘switched on’. His father had kept him at home from school or work to look after the cow which was hoisted up in the sling. He believed that the cow would find its own medicinal cure if let loose. He let the cow down after his father had gone to work. It was June and the grass was lush and green but the cow did not graze but just sniffed here and there. At a spot by a little rock outcrop the cow started grazed the grass voraciously to the bare soil. It moved about the field sniffing as it slowly went across the field until it came to another rock outcrop where again it grazed as before. The cow staggered back to the cowshed where it was again slung up. Over the next few days the cow recovered. Job cut the sods from the two spots where the cow had grazed and replanted them in the garden where they would be protected. He must have recognised that the same plants were growing at these two locations and he cultured them. Due to the high rainfall at Ffestiniog most of the lime is washed away and the pasture lacked calcium. However these two plants must have an affinity to lime and retained it.  Job showed us the two places where the rocks were in the field by the house; they are marked on the map with a ‘*’;9 & 10.

He went on to explain how he came interested in herbs and their medicinal properties and how he had saved many a mother suffering from calcium deficiencies during and after pregnancies.

He explained that he was the owner of a well established Herbalist Practice at Liverpool and Manchester . All due to what his father’s cow had taught him at Cefn.

We do not know when Lewis Job Lewis went to Liverpool. His older brother, Solomon Owen Lewis, was there before him. He probably left Y Cefn when his father died in 1900

Neither do we know when he was married- we can only guess about 1890 when he would be about 28 years of age. He married Alice, one of the twelve children of Kitty & Edward Jones of Club House, Ffestiniog, who was in service at Liverpool. There were four children, Eddie, Katherine, John and Buddug. Alice died in May 1922 aged 60 and was buried at Allerton cemetery. See Newspaper account.

When Job came to Tyn Y Ffridd in 1937 it was with his secretary, now his wife, he was aged about 75 , and possibly retired or sold his business. Job wanted to build a holiday home as near as possible to Cefn and he took a lease of a strip of land on Ffridd Pengwern  (see 2&3 on photo of map). He contracted my father to cart and erect the home on the plot of land, fence it and plant trees around it. Some of the trees didn’t survive but that is another story, which I will have to tell one day. The wooden building was built at the western end of the plot of land. The well at the eastern end was the well from which Job had carried countless bucket of water to the homestead at Cefn in the Victorian era.

Job got Ellis Thomas, of Ty’n Fedwen, a renowned carpenter to make an oak well, from what I remember it was about a 1½ cubic yard in size.  On the instruction from Job, my father sank the wooden tank where Job thought he remembered where it was in the old days of his youth-50 years ago. They left it over night to fill up, they hoped, but there was no water at all in the oak vessel in the morning.. Both of them were worried that they had disturbed the well. The following day Job came to my father, with a grin on his face. He had had a dream. In the dream he saw his father, Evan Lewis standing a few yards from the wooden tank. They moved the well to the new position and sure enough, overnight the tank filled with clear fresh water which served the holiday home for many a year. You might say “ Well! Well!” but it is the truth. Job and his wife would often come on holiday to the wooden home. He had a sister Anne Lewis living at Llan, a brother in law Pierce Jones and  a sister in law Ellen Jones.  Job also met up with Evan, whom he referred to as ‘fy nghefder Ifan’ – my cousin Evan (Jones)

 Evan Jones was about 5 years younger than Job and as a child lived near by at Ty Mawr, Pant Llwyd. Evan was the grandson of Ann & Morris Jones a stonemason who had previously lived at Pant yr Ehedydd. The census of 1881 shows the following for Ty Mawr, Pant Llwyd,:-

                Morris Jones  Widower                   age     64

                Ellen Jones     Unmarried Daughter           38

                Evan Jones     Grandson                           13

 I have looked at Evan Jones’s ( born 6.2.1868) birth certificate. On the 12.2.1868, his un-married  mother Ellen Jones puts her mark on the birth certificate. The two columns on the certificate, appertaining to the father of the baby, are blank. We could ask who, if at all, was Evan called after and also how was he a ‘cousin’ to Job. Job’s father and eldest brother were both called Evan. Evan Lewis (junior) and Ellen Jones were both born in 1843. We could ask “ Was there a connection  and if so what was it?”. But there is not likely to be an answer to this question. Be as it may, Evan Jones, like his ‘cousin’ Job, prospered  in business and in public life, but not in Liverpool but in his native Ffestiniog. In 1949, aged 81,after a long and dedicated service to the community of Ffestiniog  Sir Evan died at Llan Ffestiniog, where he was born and brought up- but that is another story.  .

 To come back to the story of  Job’s Bungalow- summer abode. What happened to it. Job and his wife used to enjoyed their regular visit to their summer- holiday home but with the war on and petrol rationing we saw less of them. We also moved to another nearby farm, Hafod Fawr Isaf. Job died in 1942. His wife used to write to my mother and send us boxes of chocolate- we remembered such a treat- especially as our family could not afford such luxuries. My Aunty Lizzie, Mrs W. C. Jones, moved back to live at Tyn Ffridd. Ciss , her daughter, and her husband Ellis John Jones bought the Hut for £100 from the Lewis family and lived there a while during 1944/5. Lynne, an other daughter, and her husband Merfyl Roberts used to come and spend their holidays there also. Some photographs taken outside the hut, sometime in 1960 were lent  by the son, Eurwyn Jones

Other childhood memories of ‘Y Cefn’

a)       I well remember the morning I walked with my father across ‘Y Cefn’ to Cae Cannol. It was 5.11. 1935, I was nearly 8 years old. I am going to say ‘we’, that is my father, were going to kill a pig for some relatives. It ended with my father, who had just killed the pig but not butchered it, being called away suddenly to another relative who had died ( Tom Edwards, Tyddyn Bach). No! I was not left to finish the work. John Roberts Cae Iago came to finish the job.

b)       Some time , about 1937/8, the local farmers lost a lot of sheep through dogs worrying the sheep. We accompanied farmers with shot guns to shoot these dogs. Two dogs were shot. I do not remember whose dogs they were.

c)       Again about this time we, as children went on Y Cefn to watch the Hafod Fawr forest fire near Graig Wen. All the foresters and farmers were out all night fighting the blaze. We were watching across the Cwm Cynfal valley on Y Cefn.

d)       My brother and I had been instructed to take a  piglet to someone at Pantllwyd, across Y Cefn. We carried it in a sack. For some reason or other the piglet got out, or the sack split open and there we were chasing this piglet. We must have caught it as I do not remember being told off There is a pond between Ty’r Cefn and the well where my brother, Humphrey, Will Morris Teiliau Bach and me used to catch newts and sell them in jam jars ( dau bwys) at school the following day. Again I do not recall who bought them and how much we got for them.

e)       There was a little stream from the well running down past Tyn Ffridd where we lived. My two eldest brothers and I used to dam the stream, and pipe the flow through to a small turbine which we had made from a bicycle wheel. We had somehow or other attached table spoons, cut to make pelton buckets. Where we pinched the spoons you may hazard a guess.

f)         A tragedy also happened on the lake on Y Cefn. Mrs Nell Ephraim  a neighbour from adjacent  Wenallt farm was drowned in Llyn Cefn; the date was 19.1.1943. By this time we were living at Dolau Las at Tan y Grisiau but helped with the search.

g)       My three brothers and I would often go to the various little ‘quarries’ around Y Cefn and dig gold – fool’s gold, pyrites and galena . 

h)       As children we used to play putting golf and football on the fields near to Cefn

i)         Sally Eluned Roberts nee Jones – (Lynne, Merfyl Roberts’s wife)  died. On 22.10.1992, and was cremated .In accordance with her last wish, some of her ashes were scattered within the ruins of Cefn, Ffestiniog, where she played as a child, and the remainder buried in a casket at Ffestiniog Cemetery. A photograph showing members of the immediate family was taken on the occasion of the scattering of the ashes.

Some of the above anecdotes show the closeness of the rural community of Ffestiniog.

Additional Information 16.2.2000.

a)     According to the Rhedegydd Newspaper Alice, Lewis Job Lewis’s wife died in Liverpool in 1922, aged 60. She was from a large Ffestiniog/ Maentwrog families (see Ref. 13) see summary below:-

We see that Pierce Meredydd, who died in 1772, married twice ( both wives were called Catherine).From his first wife (A) we have the Rhoswen family descendants to Anne (nee Ellis) Price , my grandmother). From the second wife (B) we have the Gellidywyll/Dolrhiwfelen/ Ty Clwb

Family to Alice, the wife of Lewis Job Lewis. We also see from ref.13 that Alice’s brother was William Jones  (Festinfab) a well known poet and Quarry manager. From Ellis Jones of Dol rhiwfelen we have Harry Evans Jones, a well know Blaenau Ffestiniog Solicitor 

b)       On Sunday 13.2 2000, I spoke to John, the husband of the late Sally nee Davies, Penffridd. When I enquired  about Ochr y Cefn he did not know where it was . I enquired about the parcel of land across the road to Penffridd, which is partially enclosed by some slate slabs. He had bought it but there was no sign of a building there . There is also a small pit there, by the side of the road, and there used to be a gate across the road there in the 1930, which I remember as a child. He referred to a small quarry a bit higher up, which is known Chwarel Ifan Sion (Evan Jones’s Quarry). No connection with the Evan Jones mentioned in the text, as far as I am aware. I mentioned the old building about a hundred yards from Penffridd, on the left going towards Bala, on the same side, entry to Llety Gwilym. This could have been the abode refered to as  Ochr Cefn in the Census. I took some photographs of the old ruins. One would have thought that Ochr y Cefn would refer to the right hand of the road.( See also note (g) below)

c)        He pointed out Clogwyn Ty’r Unos. It is at the top of the hill, before the cross road, about ½ mile from Pen ffridd, towards Bala, where some trees have been planted on the inside of the bend. There was a metal gate on the RHS. The small outcrop (clogwyn) can be seen on the map as two hillocks enclosed by the 1,000 ft. contour. There is a very small bit of sign of an enclosure and a ditch but nothing to indicate an abode of any sort. I took some photographs, to show the location of Clogwyn Ty Unos.

d)       Translation:of Obituary in the Ffestiniog Paper Y Rhedegydd:-

        The death occurred early last Thursday morning, after a long illness, of Mrs Lewis Job Lewis (Alice) at 21 Verulam Street Liverpool, leaving behind a husband and four children to mourn the loss of acaring and Christain mother, truly one of the better people of this world. The deceased was a daughter of the late Mr Edward & Kitty( Catherine) Jones Ty Clwb, Llan Ffestiniog one of twelve children, of whom only Miss Ellen Jones of Mold ( Housekeper to Daniel Owen) and Pierce Jones Ffestiniog, now remain. She left Ffestiniog when a young girl to enter service in Liverpool with a Christian families, until she married Mr Lewis Job Lewis the youngest son of Mr Evan Lewis Cefn, Ffestiniog, who has by now established himself in business in Cooper Buildings Liverpool also in a wide area of the City. The children have also got responsible positions at Liverpool and Manchester. During her stay in the city, she was a faithful member of Chatham Church as was testified in her funeral service by her former Minister the Re. R.R. Hughes, B.A. Niwbwrch, Angelsey who had come especially to the service to pay her last respects as had also the Revs R.J. Williams and D.D. Williams, who like Mrs Lewis had spent much of their lives at Llan Ffestiniog. The bearers were the elders of Chatham and there were many Welsh people from Liverpool awaiting the the funeral at Allerton. The service in the Chapel and the signing of the hymn “ Bydd myrdd o ryfeddodau.. “ by a dignified congregation testified to the great respect shown to Mrs Lewis in the city. Her resting place was covered by many beautiful wreaths of flowers.

e)       The twelve children were as follows, with their years of birth and death (approx.):-

William,(1841-1908- M.I.E45      ) Ffestinfab; Alice,(1842-1850, 8yrs); John, (1845 – 1891,46 yrs); Pierce,(1846 – 1857, 11yrs); Pierce, (1847 -        ?); Jane,( 1849 -       ?); James, (1850 – 1857 7yrs); David, (1852- 1857,5yrs); Richard,(1854 –1854, baby); Ellis, (1856 – 1857, 1½yrs); Ellen (1858 –1891,76yrs); and Alice (1862 – 1922, 60yrs, Mrs Lewis Job Lewis). Note that some of the children died young and other siblings were named after them.

f)        In the “Apportionment of the rent Charge in lieu of tithes in the Parish of Ffestiniog”, dated the 8^th of February 1842, we see that the owner of the small holding was the Rev.Lloyd Wynne; Lewis Job was the tenant and the acreage of the holding was a mere 1 acre, 2 roods and 13 perches. This would appear to be the one field in which Cefn is situated. I am grateful to Mr Emrys Evans for this relevant information about Cefn.

g)       The first edition of the 1inch O.S. map Harlech & Bardsey Island Sht. 31, published about 1840, indicates Ochr Cefn (716 423) nearby and across the road to the Mile Post ( Bala 16 Bl Ff.4), by Penffridd.There is a small rectangular black blob, indicating an abode, by the gate leading down to Llety Gwilym ( see photograph taken 13.2 2000). It is significant that Penffridd which is on the same side as Ochr Cefn and where the gate used to be across the road, is hardly discernible.The name Penffridd signifies the top of the enclosed fenced land. Ochr Cefn  implies the ( other )side, possibly implying the unfenced Crown / Common Land. On the same map I could find no sign of a building which could be Ty Unos, around the hillocks at 720 424- see photograph)

h)       With reference to Solomon Lewis’s family tree, page12, Margaret| Brown informs me that her grandfather, John McKinnon, married 1^st , t he daughter of Solomon Lewis, Annie Lewis and 2ndly his other daughter Edith Lewis. So there was a stepmother / aunt situation. One daughter Kathleen was born, in 1917 and is still alive in Feb 2000.

i)         Extracts from Kelly’s Trade Directrory:=

1918 Lewis Lewis ?

1919 Job Lewis Foreman21, Verulam St. (South)

1926 Lewis Job Lewis, Herbalist,Cooper Buildings,St.(West)&21,Verulam St.9South);Res.Hafan Deg,Rosslyn Drive, Moreton

1935 Lewis Job Lewis, Herbalist, 8,Hamilton Sq. Birkenhead Res.30, Rosslyn Drive Moreton Wirral.

1939 Lrewis Job Lewis Herbalist 4, Hamilton Sq. B’Head

Robin Price.

References, Distribution*, and Information from:-

1.        The first 100yrs of the Ffestiniog Golf Club Ed. Glyn Eden 1992

2.        Census Records 1841-1891  

3.         Memorial Inscriptions at Llan Ffestiniog Cemetry Gwynedd Family History M211 Issn 0267372x

4.         Ordnance survey Maps

5.        *Margaret Brown –Polegate East Surrey -a Solomon Lewis’s decendant.

6.        *Eurwyn Jones Ffestiniog & Blackpool.

7.        *Norman Jones of Holywell- L.J.Lewis’s grandson

8.        *Rosemary Lewis of Redhill Surrey – a L.J.Lewis’s in law relative

9.        Jean Lewis of Newfoundland a  Lewis descendant

10.     *Emrys Evans, Ffestiniog

11.      *Sally Williams, Ffestiniog

12.     * Merfyl Roberts, Tynffridd, /Trawsfynydd

13.     “Families and Wills of South Caernarfonshire” by T. Ceiri Griffith

14  * Laura T.Davies,

15  * Humphrey Price