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A Pedigree and Family TreesforWilliam Cronshaw HughesPrinted 21
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December 2007Copyright © Mark Richard Hughes 2007Website:http://markhughes.com Tel: 020 8281 1907Mob: 07787 842480You can join in at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/richardofsarphle/ Cover photo: William Cronshaw Hughes aged 62, taken circa 1918.
CONTENTS
Introduction............................................................................................................................................3Scope and Content.................................................................................................................................4Information on CD, Internet and DVD..................................................................................................4Richard and Catherine............................................................................................................................5Llanarmon DC....................................................................................................................................7Hugh Hughes (1764-1850) married Mary Davies.................................................................................8Edward Hughes (1792-1838) married Eleanor Jones............................................................................8Edward's Bible.................................................................................................................................10John Hughes (1828-?) married Alice Sarah Cronshaw........................................................................10William Cronshaw Hughes (1856-1927)............................................................................................11Marriage 1: Emma Curry (1856 appr.-1909)...................................................................................12William's Injuries.............................................................................................................................12Links to America..............................................................................................................................12Children: Harold, Dorothy & Margery............................................................................................13Children: Harold, Dorothy & Margery............................................................................................14Harold Hughes (1891-1946)................................................................................................................14Harold married Emmeline Yates Davies (1892-?)...........................................................................14Frank Sephton Hughes (1929-)............................................................................................................15Frank married Eileen Moore (1931-)...............................................................................................15Sybil Dorothy Hughes (1925-) & Thelma Emrol Hughes (1921-?)....................................................15Marriage 2: Christina Evelyn Counsell (1896-1974).......................................................................16Stan's Recollections of William.......................................................................................................16Mysteries and Further Research...........................................................................................................18Methodology........................................................................................................................................19References and Bibliography...............................................................................................................21APPENDIX A - Information Inscribed in Welsh Bible.......................................................................25APPENDIX B - Richard's Descendents (Hughes, 1998).....................................................................26
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Introduction
This pedigree begins in 1719 with the birth of Richard Hughes. Richard lived at Sarphle farmLlanarmon DC, at the top of the beautiful Glyn Ceiriog valley, with his wife Catherine Tudor who issaid to be related to the rulers of England (from Henry IV in 1485 to Elizabeth I who died childless in1603). The pedigree records the male line to William Cronshaw Hughes, born 1856 and then expandsto record all of William's descendents up to 2007 (some members still to be added as of December2007).The author, Mark Richard Hughes, is a great x5 grandson of Richard of Sarphle. I was born inWallasey and currently live in Walthamstow, London. On Boxing Day 2006 my father Frank Sephton Hughes gave me a small collection of fragile family documents and a task: to "fill in thegaps" in a handwritten pedigree which passed to him from his father Harold. That pedigree is in twoparts.The more recent part shows descendents of “Richard of Sarple [sic]” (and his father Thomas Hughes,"alive in 1720") and the male line through several generations to the family of John Hughes inLiverpool (c. 1910). The children of each generation are shown, ending with the eight children of John and his wife Alice Cronshaw, including the aforementioned William. This part appears to havebeen made circa 1920. On the first part of the pedigree Richard is shown as the son of ThomasHughes, linking him to the second, earlier part. This is a transcript roughly contemporary
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with thefirst part of “The Pedigree of Thomas Hughes, Gent, Llansantffraid Lleian” which was "Compilled[sic] 6
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June 1720." It records the male line from “Blethyn ap Gynwyn, Prince of North Wales andPowys” in 1068, to the said "Thomas Hughes" in 1720.In addition to that pedigree, Dad gave me press cuttings collected by his father Harold, a list of initials with dates, a fragile page torn from an old Welsh bible, and a handful of old photographs. Ifelt proud and honoured to be custodian of these precious items and this task, but had no idea what anourishing and enjoyable journey I was beginning, and no idea how to go about it!Along the way I have got to know deceased ancestors I had never heard of, almost as if I’d sat andtalked with them. I’ve been deeply touched by visiting the places where they were born, lived anddied. I’ve been changed by my discoveries and what they have revealed about who
I
am. During thisprocess I have come to regard a human being as a unique
blend
of their ancestors—not only of theirDNA, but also I believe, including fragments of ancestral personalities and foibles. As if parts of myancestors survive in me, in some mysterious way. For me, family is no longer the current generation,but a living breathing organism whose tail stretches far into the past.I didn’t just get to know my dead ancestors though. I was to discover a whole new branch of myfamily that had been unknown to us—the children of my great grandfather William CronshawHughes and his second wife Christina. I met my father’s half brother Stan and his daughter Jean, andexchanged precious things with them. I also visited the families of my aunt’s Sybil and Thelma, whoI have not seen since childhood.I am very grateful to all who have helped me with this research, too many to mention in full. Family,friends and all the helpful people I encountered along the way. To you I say thank you very much forhelping pan this Welsh gold.
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Both are made on very similar paper, both handwritten in ink and apparently by the same hand. They have ageddifferently, suggesting they were not made at exactly the same time or that they have been kept separately. I have datedthem c. 1920 based on the content: "Ann married Thomas Plennah, descendents living in Wrexham 1918."
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