Comments for Anglesey History https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:38:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Comment on The Irishman in Church Island Cemetery by Surprises in Llanddyfnan - Anglesey History https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/the-irishman-in-church-island-cemetery/#comment-124 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:25:11 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=530#comment-124 […] I mentioned in my last blog, The Irishman in Church Island Cemetery, every graveyard has several interesting stories to tell, if you just look […]

]]> Comment on An Iron Age Tardis? Bryn Eryr roundhouses at St. Fagans by Day School - Excavations at Parc Cybi, Holyhead - Anglesey History https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/an-iron-age-tardis-bryn-eryr-roundhouses-at-st-fagans/#comment-123 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:42:23 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-123 […] the houses have been reconstructed at St Fagans National Museum of History (which is described in my previous blog). Later unenclosed settlements have been excavated at Ty Mawr near Holyhead and Parc Bryn Cegin by […]

]]> Comment on Bodior Tide Mill by Visit to Bodior House with AAS - Anglesey History https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/bodior-tide-mill/#comment-39 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:32:04 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-39 […] After the debriefing sessions some of us went on to explore a nearby tidal mill, the subject of my next blog. […]

]]> Comment on Visit to Bodior House with AAS by Bodior Tide Mill - Anglesey History https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/visit-to-bodior-house-with-aas/#comment-38 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:31:37 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-38 […] visiting Bodior house, a smaller group of Anglesey Antiquarian Society members walked across a couple of fields in the […]

]]> Comment on Old Friends in New Places – Visiting St Fagans by The Irishman in Church Island Cemetery - Anglesey History https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/old-friends-in-new-places-visiting-st-fagans/#comment-37 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:29:57 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=1158#comment-37 […] a tantalising clue to an interesting story, which I will sometimes try to follow up later. On a recent trip to the St Fagan’s outdoor museum in south Wales I had a look around the village churchyard. Towards the back was a […]

]]> Comment on History of the House in the Marsh by Surprises in Llanddyfnan - Anglesey History https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/history-of-the-house-in-the-marsh/#comment-36 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:29:27 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=371#comment-36 […] mindful that some of the people I mentioned in my recent blog about the abandoned house, Ynys, at Cors Bodeilio might be here. Sure enough, two prominent slabs near the church door were for the Thomas family of […]

]]> Comment on ‘Spheres of Influence’ – Day-conference by Book Review - Darganfod Tai Hanesyddol Eryri: Discovering the Historic Houses of Snowdonia - Anglesey History https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/spheres-of-influence-day-conference/#comment-35 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:26:03 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=1121#comment-35 […] attending the “Spheres of Influence” day school last month, I decided to finally get myself a copy of this fine book. One of the authors, Richard […]

]]> Comment on Happiness and Tragedy – Exploring Anglesey Parish Records on Ancestry.co.uk by The Many Ages of Mary Owen - Anglesey History https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/happiness-and-tragedy-exploring-anglesey-parish-records-on-ancestry-co-uk/#comment-34 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:17:48 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=1219#comment-34 […] of the victims were buried in the churchyards near the wreck site at Moelfre (as described in my blog about the local parish records), but we knew a few had been buried in Pentraeth. After lunch we took a stroll up to the church to […]

]]> Comment on The Mystery of the Non-Existent Castle by Lawrence West https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/the-mystery-of-the-non-existent-castle/#comment-21 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:21:28 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=1203#comment-21

Definitely in Nefyn. It now comprises 2 semidetached residences, one if which is up for sale.

]]> Comment on The Many Ages of Mary Owen by Kirsty Owen https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/the-many-ages-of-mary-owen/#comment-32 Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:25:35 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=1271#comment-32 I think this woman may have been a relative of mine a very distant one, my great great grandparents were John and tryphena Owen who grew up in a house up in that forest which is today long abandoned. The name John Owen has made its way all the way down to my brother today who has John as his middle name… This story has blown my mind. Il message my second cousin to confirm as she is currently doing a family tree, but this all sounds really familiar

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