This is a closeup of the 1901 Welsh census showing
Robert David Williams age 11, and his brother Willie age 8. For years I didn’t
think this was really them as I believed Willie was born in 1898 and should
have been age 3! But after discovering Willie on the 1911 census age 18, I then
knew this was indeed the little brothers, boarding with Mary Parry, a single
mother age 32, working as a laundress. She had a young daughter age 2.
They lived in the parish of Talsarnau in the rural
district of Deudraeth in Merioneth. I can’t read the name of the ecclesiastical
parish. They lived at #10 Bryn Street. It’s a complete mystery as of this date,
April 25, 2016, as to why they were boarding out. Talsarnau is fairly close to
Blaenau Ffestiniog, but I don’t know what happened to their parents, Joseph and
Elizabeth Williams as I can find no trace of them on the census. John Griffith,
their older brother age 13, appears on page 14 of this census, also living in
Talsarnau but at Plasuehaf Farm as a cattle man with Ellis Jones Edmunds, a 47
year old farmer.
According to Google maps, this is #10 Bryn Street in
Talsarnau Wales.
This shows how far away Bryn Street in Talsarnau Wales is from Blaenau Ffestiniog. It's 19 minutes, or 10 miles by car. So I guess by horse and cart it may have been one hour.
By Loretta (Williams) Houben
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