Charles Henry Mortimore / Mortimer was born in Devon in 1841. He was the son of George Mortimore and Harriet. His father was a journeyman – handmade papermaker. The family later moved to Cheddar, and [more]
On Thursday the 28th September 1939, following more than two weeks of German air assault and siege, General Walerian Czuma, Garrison Commander of the Polish forces in Warsaw, accepted defeat. Even though German radio had [more]
MARY ANNE, WIFE OF N. R. GRIFFITH. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED BY A FALL AT SEA 22 FEB 1901, GERALD MAURICE GRIFFITH, YOUNGEST SON OF THE ABOVE Nathanial Robert Griffith was born in October 1847 in Graville, France, [more]
Louisa Brooks was born on 7 April 1861 in Talwrn and baptised at the end of August that year in Wern Chapel, Minera, she was the daughter of John Brooks a stonemason and Caroline Thomas. [more]
Poplar Cottage was built sometime about 1820 by Edward Davies, it was later also known as 12 Madeira Hill. It was thought originally to have been a large property built in two parts. Coflein described [more]
Harriet Powell was born about 1846 in Wrexham. The Powell family lived in Pentrefelin before moving to Belle Vue Road, Harriet was a general servant but went off the rails and over the years she [more]
Location Bersham (SJ30704926) History [from RCAHMW] Charles Lloyd of Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, established the Bersham Ironworks in about 1715, although there are a couple of documentary references to an earlier furnace, possibly in Bersham, from the [more]
Air Products moved out after more than 50 years at its home in Acrefair, with the last members of a 200 strong workforce finally leaving on 18th December 2009. John Edwards, who had worked at [more]
THE EXPLOSION AT VAUXHALL COLLIERY. The adjourned inquest on the bodies of Edward Rogers, aged 29, and Phillip Phillips, aged 36, who met with their death in consequence of an explosion at the Vauxhall Colliery, [more]
There are probably very few families in the country who have attained the military record of Mr and Mrs George Roberts of Ponkey (Ponciau), all of whose sons volunteered to serve their country. Three of [more]
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