https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/happiness-and-tragedy-exploring-anglesey-parish-records-on-ancestry-co-uk/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:54:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 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 […]

]]> https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/happiness-and-tragedy-exploring-anglesey-parish-records-on-ancestry-co-uk/#comment-23 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 11:18:06 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=1219#comment-23 What fascinating detail about the Royal Charter tragedy. I remember my great uncle having a framed document commemorating a Maltese sailor, named Rodriguez I believe, who managed to swim ashore with a rope to enable a breeches buoy to be set up. A few crew members were saved by this means. I was told once that sailors liked to have tattoos so that their bodies could be identified if they drowned.

]]> https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/happiness-and-tragedy-exploring-anglesey-parish-records-on-ancestry-co-uk/#comment-22 Sat, 02 Jan 2021 16:28:29 +0000 https://angleseyhistory.wordpress.com/?p=1219#comment-22 […] 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 […]

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