       
 River Nodwydd
Llain Abernodwydd
Saint Mary's Church
Cloth Hall
Pentraeth Station
Famous People
Plas Gwyn
Mair Wyn Hughes.
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Y 'Royal Charter'
Cliciwch yma am y fersiwn Cymraeg
In the graveyard at Pentraeth church there are stones to
remember the people who drowned when the Royal Charter was destroyed. There is no name on
the stones as nobody knew who they were.
The stones were paid for by Lady Vivien who lived at Plas Gwyn.
The Royal Charter was a sailing ship . She sailed back and forth between Australia and
Liverpool. She was blown on the rocks at Moelfre in a hurricane and was destroyed fifty
yards from a small stony beach. Every woman and child on it was drowned. Some of the
bodies were found on the beach at Pentraeth and, according to custom during the last
century, they were buried in the parish graveyard as the bodies had been washed ashore in
a part of the parish.
This is what was written in the church Record Book,-
11:11:1859. Female person.
Female person.
Female person.
14:11:1859. Male person.
15:11:1859. Male person.
1:12:1859. Male person.
Charles Dickens came to Moelfre to see where the disaster happened and he wrote the
history in his book "The Uncommercial traveller". He stayed at the Panton Arms,
Pentraeth when he came to visit the area.
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