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Hugh GRIFFITH [Parents] [image] was born on 25 May 1862 in Nefyn CAE Well Street. He died on 17 Feb 1922 in Pencaenewydd CAE Frongoch . The cause of death was Cancer. He was buried on 21 Feb 1922. He married Letitia JONES in 1893 in Pwllheli CAE. Hugh was employed as Schoolmaster in Llithfaen CAE.

A musician, a conductor, and judge at Eisteddfodau, Hugh Griffith was a dedicated teacher. After training at Brytanaidd School he studied at Bangor normal college and spent two years at Carneddi School in Bethesda before returning to Lleyn to teach at Llithfaen for thirty years. Described as a keen reader in English and in Welsh and a close follower of politics and current affairs, he led the choir at Llithfaen and taught them famous classical pieces with the help of an orchestra from Porthmadog. He conducted the Nefyn Cymanfa Ganu for the best part of 20 years and was a prominent figure on the area. He spoke out against a shortage of experienced teachers and the Eisteddfod which he said was more concerned with making a profit than promoting culture. Described as “a cultured gentleman, great company and a good and faithful friend" when his choir sang 'the Gold Harp' at his funeral, according to the newspaper report “there wasn't a dry eye in the large audience”. “When the funeral neared his old home, a heavy shower of snow fell. He'll sleep peacefully in the place he loved "

Letitia JONES [Parents] [image] was born on 13 Jun 1872 in Llangybi CAE Frongoch. She died on 23 Jun 1942 in Pwllheli CAE Deunant. The cause of death was Cancer. She was buried on 26 Jun 1942 in Llithfaen CAE. She married Hugh GRIFFITH in 1893 in Pwllheli CAE. Letitia was employed as a Postmistress, Shopkeeper in Pencaenewydd CAE.

They had the following children:

		F	i	Nevina GRIFFITH [image] was born in 1894 in Pistyll CAE. She died on 5 May 1902. The cause of death was Diptheria. She was buried in Llithfaen CAE.
		M	ii	Captain Ioan Arthur GRIFFITH
		F	iii	Eluned GRIFFITH
		M	iv	Taliesyn GRIFFITH
		M	v	Captain Emrys GRIFFITH
		F	vi	Letitia GRIFFITH [image] was born in 1905 in Pistyll CAE. She died on 28 Aug 1918 in Morfa Bychan . The cause of death was Drowned . She was buried in Llithfaen CAE.
		F	vii	Mair GRIFFITH [image] was born on 11 Sep 1909 in Llangybi CAE. She died in Nov 1985. Mair was employed as a Secretary at Midland Bank in Llanrwst DEN.

John Wells ROBERTS [Parents] [image] was born on 17 Feb 1862 in Llanelli CMN. He died on 20 Sep 1932 in Llanelli CMN. He was buried in Llanelli CMN Box Cemetery. He married Caroline Martha BLACKMORE in 1891 in Llanelli CMN . John was employed as Market Gardener in Llanelli CMN.

Unlike his father, John Wells Roberts was a soft spoken man. The only surviving son, he was considered the head of the Roberts family and it was to him that his sisters turned when in trouble. He was one of the first members of the Labour Party in Llanelli and a follower of Keir Hardy. An atheist, he did not force his views on his family and believed that Christianity provided the best moral teaching. He sent his sons to Sunday School until he found they were bunking off and spending their afternoons on the beach. He told the Sunday School superintendent in no uncertain terms, that if he couldn't make the lessons interesting enough to keep them there, he would not enforce their attendance. He and his wife loved entertaining and filled the house at Swansea Road Nurseries with family and friends until his death in 1932.

Caroline Martha BLACKMORE [Parents] [image] was born on 12 Jan 1871 in Pembrey CMN. She died on 3 Dec 1960 in Llanelli CMN Swansea Road Nurseries. She was buried in Llanelli CMN Box Cemetery. She married John Wells ROBERTS in 1891 in Llanelli CMN . Caroline was employed as a Parlour Maid / Florist.

As a young woman Caroline Martha was very beautiful. She started life in a house at the bottom of Swansea Road, Llanelli, where every morning a man would tap on the bedroom windows of the workers with a long pole. She worked as a parlour maid for the family of a local industrialist until her marriage when she joined the family business as a florist. A hard worker and an avid reader, she survived her husband for almost thirty years. My mother remembers that when her parents were out she would sleep with her grandmother in her feather bed. Before getting in, she would unwrap her varicose veins that hung like ropes when she took off her crepe bandages and let down her long, iron-grey hair, before plaiting it. In her eighties, she would whitewash the outside lavatory, dressed in an overall on with her hair tied up in a duster. She had a powerful pair of lungs and would stand at her front door and shout the name of whoever she wanted from the Nurseries. She enjoyed television, although she could only hear it with earphones. She would watch boxing, on which she was well informed. She regularly played whist at the Y.M.C.A. and used to visit all members of her family - alive or dead. It was her love of old churchyards that has been passed down the family line.

They had the following children:

		M	i	Second Lieutenant Tom ROBERTS [image] was born in 1892 in Llanelli CMN. He died on 24 May 1915 in Ypres BEL. He was buried in Bedford House Cemetery BEL. Tom was employed as a Teacher, Soldier.
		M	ii	Frank ROBERTS
		M	iii	John Wells ROBERTS

Robert Dewsberry EVANS [Parents] [image] was born on 29 Apr 1940 in Llanelli CMN . He died in Dec 1994 in Llanelli CMN . The cause of death was Multiple Sclerosis. He married Living. Robert was employed as a Welding Engineer.

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They had the following children:

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John Wells ROBERTS [Parents] [image] "Jack" was born in 1901 in Llanelli CMN. He died in 1955 in Llanelli CMN . He married Winifred ANTHONY in 1933. John was employed as Nurseyman in Llanelli CMN Swansea Road Nurseries.

Winifred ANTHONY [Parents] "Winnie" was born on 5 Feb 1905. She died in 1989 in Llanelli CMN . She married John Wells ROBERTS in 1933.

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James BLACKMORE [Parents] was born in 1835 in Hutton SOM. He was christened on 31 May 1835 in Hutton SOM. He died on 10 Aug 1913 in Llanelli CMN Hilden House. He married Ann BARNES on 25 Mar 1857 in Puxton SOM Parish Church . James was employed as Farmer Lead Smelter General Haulier in Llanelli CMN.

Ann BARNES [Parents] was born in 1833 in Ubley SOM. She was christened on 30 Jun 1833 in Ubley SOM. She died in 1893 in Llanelli CMN . She was buried on 22 Aug 1893 in Llanelli CMN All Saints Church. She married James BLACKMORE on 25 Mar 1857 in Puxton SOM Parish Church .

They had the following children:

		F	i	Emma BLACKMORE
		M	ii	John BLACKMORE
		F	iii	Mary Jane BLACKMORE
		F	iv	Elizabeth BLACKMORE
		M	v	William BLACKMORE
		F	vi	Sarah Ann BLACKMORE
		F	vii	Caroline Martha BLACKMORE
		M	viii	Henry James BLACKMORE

Thomas ROBERTS [Parents] [image] was born on 9 Dec 1833 in Wolstanton STS. He died on 11 Oct 1904 in Llanelli CMN Woodbine Cottage Swansea Road. He was buried in Llanelli CMN Box Cemetery . He married Jane WELLS on 19 Oct 1856 in Llanelli CMN Parish Church . Thomas was employed as Potter Market Gardener in Llanelli CMN.

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HOWELLS, Mary

Thomas Roberts was said to have been a proud man, a product of his tough upbringing who never lost his Staffordshire accent. He first came to Llanelly as a young boy when his father was one of the first potters to sign contracts with the Llanelly Pottery but his father died while Thomas was in his teens and the family were said to have spent three days in the workhouse before returning to Staffordshire. Thomas returned to the town some years later as a young man where he shared lodgings with his friend David Guest - another glost fireman - at the home of the then widowed Margaret Wells in Stepney Street. Thomas and David married two of her daughters Ann and Jane. Thomas and Jane Roberts had eleven children, six of whom survived. The couple moved back to Burslem in or around 1872 but were there for only a couple of years before Jane died, young at the age of forty, six months after the birth of their youngest daughter Emma. Thomas Roberts brought his children back to Llanelli on the train and resumed work at the Pottery, which by this time was in financial trouble. It was then that he started selling produce from his garden. His daughters followed him into the pottery business when it re-opened, but his son kept the gardening business running. A heavy drinker when he was younger, he signed the pledge and became a teetotaller until his death. A generous man to his family, he could be a difficult character as well. He would give friends basket of produce from his garden but what not allow his grandchildren to collect windfalls. He remarried after the death of his first wife and died at home in 1904.

Jane WELLS [Parents] was born on 9 Jan 1834 in Llanelli CMN . She died on 14 Nov 1874 in Burslem STS 7 Baines Street. She married Thomas ROBERTS on 19 Oct 1856 in Llanelli CMN Parish Church .

They had the following children:

		F	i	Annie ROBERTS
		F	ii	Sarah Jane ROBERTS [image] "Auntie Sal" was born on 5 Feb 1859 in Llanelli CMN Wernlle . She died on 19 Nov 1935 in Llanelli CMN . She was buried in Llanelli CMN Box Cemetery . Sarah was employed as a Earthenware Painter in Llanelly Pottery. Sarah Roberts (Auntie Sal) was chief paintress at the Llanelly Pottery and mainly responsible for the cockerel plates which were painted by other paintresses on piecework. Quickly and carelessly produced, each one is diffferent and although they now change hands for hundreds of pounds, they were sold at the time for a few pence and used as houseware by the family and even for mixing paint. Short and dumpy and always dressed in black, during the First World War she used to bully shopkeepers in Llanelli to sell her cigarettes to send to her nephews at the front. After the pottery closed in 1922 she worked in her brother's florist shop in Llanelli Market. In the last years of her life she was nursed by her neice Annie Gwendoline Hawkins until her death in 1935.
		M	iii	William ROBERTS was born on 19 Feb 1861. He died on 1 Mar 1861.
		M	iv	John Wells ROBERTS
		F	v	Margaret ROBERTS
		M	vi	Edward ROBERTS was born on 2 Mar 1866. He died on 6 Apr 1867.
		F	vii	Elizabeth ROBERTS
		M	viii	William ROBERTS was born on 20 Jul 1869 in Llanelli CMN . He died on 18 Feb 1870 in Llanelli CMN .
		M	ix	Thomas ROBERTS was born on 3 Feb 1871 in Llanelli CMN . He died in May 1874.
		F	x	Mary ROBERTS
		F	xi	Emma ROBERTS

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John GRIFFITH [Parents] was born on 26 Oct 1825 in Llanbedrog CAE. He was christened on 28 Oct 1825 in Pwllheli CAE Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. He died on 10 Nov 1886 in Nefyn CAE . He was buried in Nefyn CAE Cemetery. He married Ellen ROBERTS on 28 Mar 1854 in Llanbeblig Parish Church CAE. John was employed as Shoemaker in Nefyn CAE.

Ellen ROBERTS [Parents] was born in 1832 in Nefyn CAE. She died on 25 Sep 1891 in Nefyn CAE . She was buried in Nefyn CAE Public Cemetery. She married John GRIFFITH on 28 Mar 1854 in Llanbeblig Parish Church CAE.

They had the following children:

		M	i	John GRIFFITH was born in 1855 in Nefyn CAE. He died on 25 Sep 1875 in Nefyn CAE . He was buried in Nefyn CAE Public Cemetery. John was employed as a Mariner .
		F	ii	Mary GRIFFITH was born in 1858 in Nefyn CAE. Mary was employed as a Domestic Servant in Nefyn CAE.
		M	iii	Hugh GRIFFITH was born on 19 Mar 1860 in Nefyn CAE.
		M	iv	Hugh GRIFFITH
		M	v	David John GRIFFITH
		F	vi	Margaret Jane GRIFFITH was born in 1871 in Nefyn CAE.

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