Chirk

Brynkinalt Colliery, Chirk

Sunk during the 1860s by a Mr Blakewell, an eminent mining engineer, who owned the Brynkinallt Coal Co Ltd.  The mine was purchased in 1893 by Mr William Young Craig (formerly the MP for North [more]

Biographies

William ELLIS and Sarah Jane DUCK

by Annette Edwards. WILLIAM ELLIS was baptised 25 August 1841 at St John the Baptist, Chester, he was the son of Samuel Ellis a joiner from Liverpool and Sarah Edwards who was from Dublin. By [more] [more]