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Subject: Re: [CAE] Royalty in the family?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:01:17 EST


In a message dated 28/10/2002 15:50:13 GMT Standard Time,
writes:
>
> When she was a little girl, my mother Laura WILLIAMS, now aged 87, was
> told by her Taid that
> he was the King of Bardsey Island, and that she was a
> princess.
> Does any lister know, please, of a way of verifying whether a
> Richard JONES, born 1846/7 in Liverpool, was ever "head man" of Lord
> Newborough's Bardsey Island estate, and/or whether there is a newspaper
> archive somewhere containing reports of the "coronation" ceremonies
>

I have seen somewhere, but I can not recall where, a picture of King Richard
of Bardsey wearing his crown, I thought that it was in a book or a magazine
that I had at home, but despite an extensive search I cannot lay my hands on
it.
However a copy of the picture is bound to be availiable either from Gwynedd
Archive services in Caernarfon:


or in the National Library in Aberystwyth:



If I find the picture I will get back to you

Regards

Alwyn





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