Kath Posted 10 April , 2020 Share Posted 10 April , 2020 Please can anyone read the address in Wales of O.J.Jones, Chief Mate on the Turcoman. 1915 crew list from Greenwich. https://1915crewlists.rmg.co.uk/document/182481#&gid=1&pid=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Porter Posted 10 April , 2020 Share Posted 10 April , 2020 Looks like Mt. Pleasant, Llanwnda which appears to be south of Caernarfon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm12hl Posted 10 April , 2020 Share Posted 10 April , 2020 Mount Pleasant, Llanwnda perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kath Posted 10 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 10 April , 2020 Thank you, David and Malcolm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hywyn Posted 10 April , 2020 Share Posted 10 April , 2020 (edited) I have the following note for him. HC = Herald Cymraeg (newspaper). It's online now but I cannot bring this cutting up in that particular issue. One possible explanation is that the paper had a couple of versions for different areas in Caernarfonshire where local village/area 'news' differed and I recorded it at one Archive (the Uni Library, Bangor) whilst the online version is from another archive (County Archives, Caernarfon) and they were different editions. <Photo> Captain Owen John Jones, eldest son of Mr Owen Jones, Mount Pleasant has died of pneumonia aged 49 years. He was the Chief Officer on the SS TURCONIAN, White Star Dominion Line. He died in a nursing home in Bristol on 17th April and was buried at Crawford Cemetery, Bristol. (HC 30/4/1918 under Llanwnda) Edited 10 April , 2020 by Hywyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kath Posted 10 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 10 April , 2020 Thank you, Hywyn. I had tried the online newspapers but got nowhere. Thank you for your help. Kath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ernest james Posted 12 April , 2020 Share Posted 12 April , 2020 " Crawford cemetery, Bristol" doesn't sound correct to me. Could it be a misinterpretation of Canford cemetery, Westbury -on- Trym. best wishes ernestjames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kath Posted 12 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 12 April , 2020 Yes, quite right, Ernest. Thank you. Through FMPast, I found his Death Notice in the Western Daily Press, 20 April 1918. It said Canford Cemetery. I've done a search on https://www.gravestonephotos.com/index.php and FINDAGrave but I don't think there is a headstone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hywyn Posted 12 April , 2020 Share Posted 12 April , 2020 8 hours ago, ernest james said: " Crawford cemetery, Bristol" doesn't sound correct to me. Could it be a misinterpretation of Canford cemetery, Westbury -on- Trym. best wishes ernestjames I'll go with Cranford being correct. I probably couldn't read my own writing when I typed up the info recorded longhand at the archives. (I also have the vessel wrong) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kath Posted 12 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 12 April , 2020 (edited) Hywyn, perhaps you followed the interpretation on the newspaper website - the OCR would render M as IN - SS TURCONIAN . There is this in your post 5 - <Photo> Can you remember what the photo was? I have a photo of O.J.Jones & written on the back is "Carnarvon Herald." Edited 1 January , 2021 by Kath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hywyn Posted 13 April , 2020 Share Posted 13 April , 2020 I made notes from the archived newspapers Kath (scrawl more like) and then typed them up later so typos would creep into my typed notes. This was way before newspapers came online. I'd go mostly to the County Archives but would occasionally go to the 'stacks' situated at the Univeristy Library, Bangor. Where there was a photo I'd note the fact. Not many photos of individuals by 1918. The one I recorded was Yr Herald Gymraeg. It's quite likely the same info/photo would have been in other local papers such as the Carnarvon Herald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kath Posted 13 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 13 April , 2020 Thanks very much for all your help, Hywyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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