Sunday Family History

I took this photo of a gravestone at Church Island many weeks ago and at the time the only reason was because of the maritime connection, Matthew Owen was a ship's carpenter/boatbuilder.

The address, Bryn Tawel (Quiet Hill), had also sounded familiar and today I started searching and I'm almost certain that Anne Owen was my paternal grandfather's sister - my grandfather was resident at Bryn Tawel when he got married, according to his marriage certificate. There is a very sad part to this story too, which I won't go into yet ...

Family history was an antidote to all the gardening earlier in the day, it's very hot but I'm not complaining :-)