Category: Biography & Family History
Biographical and genealogical studies reconstructing individual lives, families and communities through archival records, newspapers, photographs, wills, family papers and other evidence. The emphasis is on placing people within the social worlds of work, kinship, migration, faith and inheritance.
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Llanwrin: A Montgomeryshire Village, Its People and My Family’s History
The history of Llanwrin in the Dyfi Valley, its medieval church, Victorian village life and the many generations of my Davies and Jones ancestors buried in the parish.
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Owen Jones Davies (1875–1958): From Caeadda to the Welsh Settlement of Wood River
Owen Jones Davies (1875–1958) left Montgomeryshire for North America, establishing a farm at Wood River, Alberta, and helping sustain its Welsh chapel and choirs.
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Thomas Davies of Penlan and Gwernstablau (1864–1930): Farming, Family and Public Life in Montgomeryshire
Thomas Davies (1864–1930) of Penlan and Gwernstablau: an upland sheep farmer, Llanwrin parish councillor and member of the Davies family of Caeadda.
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John Pugh of Glyncaerig (1834–1912): From Farm Labourer’s Son to Montgomeryshire Landowner
John Pugh (1834–1912) rose from agricultural labouring roots to ownership of Glyncaerig near Llanwrin. His life links the Pugh, Glandwr, Maescelyn and Caeadda families.
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The Tragedy of Maescelyn: The Jenkins Family and the Loss of an Upland Farming Home, 1906–1913
The deaths of Elizabeth Jenkins and her infant daughter in 1906, the loss of Maescelyn farm, and the dispersal of a Montgomeryshire farming family.
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Sir Francis Edwards (1852–1927): Knighton, Welsh Liberalism and the Politics of Radnorshire
The life of Sir Francis Edwards (1852–1927), Liberal MP for Radnorshire, from his Knighton home and Welsh Church reform to the electoral contests of 1910 and his funeral…
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Arthur Henry John Walsh (1859–1937): Radnorshire, the Royal Court and the Decline of the Ormathwaite Estates
Arthur Henry John Walsh, 3rd Baron Ormathwaite, represented Radnorshire in Parliament and served two monarchs, while debts undermined his family estates. His final years and his remarkable will…
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Diana Hambro, Lady Gibson-Watt: A Life at Doldowlod
Diana Hambro, Lady Gibson-Watt, remembered through wartime nursing, Doldowlod, horticulture, politics and first-hand recollections of her influence on a younger generation.
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Gwen Jones of Caeadda, 1841–1926: A Welsh Farming Matriarch
The life of Gwen Jones, later Davies, of Caeadda, a Welsh-speaking farming matriarch whose story illuminates women, widowhood, agriculture, family and rural society in nineteenth-century Wales.
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‘Vote and Interest’: Charles Venables-Llewelyn and the Radnorshire Elections of 1910
The story behind a surviving 1910 Radnorshire election card, tracing Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn from his fourteen-vote parliamentary victory to fifty-five years of county public service at Llysdinam.