Biographies

Czuma Brothers Return to Poland

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]

Biographies

Mary Ann GRIFFITHS – Lost at sea

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]

Coedpoeth

COEDPOETH TO COLORADO

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]

People

POPLAR COTTAGE 12 Madeira Hill

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]

Biographies

HARRIET AND JOHN Partners in Crime

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]

Bersham

Bersham Ironworks

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]