Tuesday came and went and still no birth cert for Edward!! Dammit! Maybe next Tuesday then...
Cambrian: Ann gives her date of birth on the 1939 Register as 24 March 1872; she died 04 January 1940 and was buried at Eglwys Rhos on 08 Jan 1940, so those dates do match. I remember my Mother feeling very bitter that it had been a very cold Winter that year and Ann had developed pneumonia. My Mum said she 'died whilst scrubbing other people's doorsteps!' which I thought very tragic, and I could well understand my Mother's grief (she was only 14 at the time).
I'm also a bit confused about the Great Orme link, especially with her son, Thomas and his family being buried there. I'm happy that Pen y Gerddi used to be Bryn Gwynt Lane, and I know Ann and Fred took in lodgers who worked in the Little Orme quarry. In fact someone along the way said that the cottages at Mt Pleasant were originally intended for the L'Orme quarrymen. But the Gt Orme leaves me a bit baffled. I know in the global scale of things, Llandudno is not a huge metropolis, but people rarely travelled far from their roots in those days, so to go from Penrhynside to the Great Orme was quite a feat!
Helig: Yes, I see now that Jane Evans need not have been his Granny at all, which causes me even more grief as there's those same names cropping up again, over and over - leaving folk like me to try and second-guess them all! My second-guess in this case was that very often relatives are listed as 'boarders' or 'lodgers' rather than their actual relationships!
Hugo: That record from the 1939 Register is the guy who started this ball rolling, Thomas Richard himself! Young Morris became the bus conductor in later years. The thing is, I understand that Laura was not on that register (she died - according to the gravestone - on 31 May 1939) but I wonder now where William was? He didn't die until 1949 so should have been on it, but there are only 2 children listed, Robert and Morris. Hmmm.....
It's the story of my life! Never a clear-cut path! We live in an older cottage and whenever there's a job to do, we usually have to do 6 others first before we can start, but which one do you start with first?
Meanwhile, my sister has booked a trip to Ypres in November so she can 'meet' Edward at last and lay some flowers on his grave on the 100th anniversary of his death on Nov 30th. I do so wish I could go with her!