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From: "Audrey German" <>
Subject: Re: CARMARTHENSHIRE-FHS-D Digest V05 #55 - News Items
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:22:52 +0100
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This is not a Carmarthenshire story although the James family mentioned
below did originally come from Llanelli:

While searching for the birth registration of my grandmother Jenny Williams,
(who turned out not to be Jenny at all but Mary-Jane - but that's another
story) I sought the help of my late mother's cousin by marriage, Winifred
Frances. (Winifred is over 90 now and lives in Builth Wells and was a
successful commercial artist, designing the original logo for Cussons
Imperial Leather.) Winifred had family papers belonging to her late husband
and also a wonderful memory so through her I was able to trace Jenny
(Mary-Jane) Williams on the 1891 Glamorgan Census and eventually back to my
great-grandparents Thomas Williams & Mary-Ann James.
In later correspondence she told me her husband had owned a pair of
pictures - embroidered samplers - which she believed came from his
grandmother, Mary-Ann James. One Christmas she sent me a lovely drawing of
these samplers which she had copied for me. The embroidered words stated
they had been done by "Aunt Ann" in 1866 and were "a presant" for MA James
and R James (Mary-Ann's sister Rachel.)
Last August my husband took me to Builth to visit Winifred and I saw these
beautiful samplers, embroidered nearly 150 years ago for myself. It was
very moving to think I was holding such a piece of family history. My one
regret is that they were not handed down to my grandmother who was the
oldest daughter but to her sister! Otherwise those beautiful samplers would
be mine!!

Audrey German

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