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Negeseuon
Subject: Greetings From the Wild Wild West in Arizona
Just surfing a bit on the internet and found your site. I am a high school
teacher on the Navajo Indian Reservation in the northeast corner of
Arizona, USA. (ages 14-21) i had the opportunity to live in the United Kingdom and
always are drawn to sites about your country. My husband was stationed at RAF
Mildenhall from '84-'88. That was our favorite duty station in all our 26 years of
Army life. Visited nearly all parts of the country and long to visit again soon.
>Enjoyed your site concerning your school, village, etc. Hope to have a
site
>up soon for our area and will encourage students to visit your site for
>ideas. Thanks so much.
>J C
From: Carson
Date: 29 May 1999 22:04
Subject: Your interesting site
What a lovely, educational site you have. I was searching for information on
Pentraeth because my fourth great grandfather, Hugh Grey, lived and raised his family in
Pentraeth (late 1700's to about 1840). His occupation was a "joiner" which was
explained to me as a carpenter who fashions wooden door and window frames, etc. for stone
buildings. His grandson, John Edward Grey, came to America in 1871 and founded my family.
I so appreciate the well written information and pictures, especially of St Mary's
Church where many of my ancestors were baptized, married and buried. Thank you...L.
Carson (Hemet, California, USA).
Dyma e-bost a gafwyd gan Mr Norman Clark, wedi
iddo ddarllen y dudalen ar y Royal Charter. :
Subject:
Re: Royal Charter
From: "Norman Clark"
Thanks for the translation.
My mother's father's father's father's father was a cook on the ship! He
had a 5 month old son in Liverpool waiting for him. The trip from
Australia was very fast back then, but it still took 2 months. Imagine,
they came half way across the world, only to be caught in a hurricane so
close to home. My ancestor's name was James Tate. He was washed ashore about 3 weeks after
the wreck. The wreck occurred on October 26, 1859. A local man found the body and wrote in
the newspaper that another body was found. The body was taken to Pentraeth Church and
buried without knowing who it was. James Tate's wife knew it was him because the newspaper
said the body had socks marked J.T. and that's the socks that he wore. She wrote to the
minister that she couldn't travel so far with a baby and the minister's wife wrote back
and included a lock of the dead man's hair. She wove the hair very finely and had it bound
into a gold ring to remember him forever. And that's just one of the stories from the
Royal Charter. There were 459 people that died. James Tate's grandson visited your
cemetery in 1938 from Toronto. He took the exact same picture of the tombstone and he
slept at a hotel called the Glanrafon Hotel between Molfrae and Pentraeth on June 19,
1938. He met two boys who knew a lot about the Royal Charter.
They were named Leonard Murley Francis from Bodawen, Moelfre Bay (whose grandmother had a
deck chair from the Royal Charter) and Stanley Hughes from the same place.
I still have 2 photographs of James Tate (they are made of glass), his last
letter written in Australia before he left, saying he hopes to arrive safe,
the letter from the minister's wife, a framed remembrance plaque for James Tate and, of
course, the ring with the woven hair!
I hope you enjoyed my story and thanks for your help. Maybe you would like to give a copy
of this to the minister of that church for me?
By the way, I am 38 and married with 3 children aged 13, 12 and 10 and I like to research
my ancestors so that my children and their children will be interested when they grow
older.
Bye.
Norman Clark
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