He married Harriet with Robert Rowlands (pictured left), Gwerndegid (parish Llanfor) near Capel Cel

Wil and Mary's son was Grandfather Hill. William Rowland Williams and Mary Catherine Hughes lea (pictured below, my grandfather with his father and mother). They were the first of the 'ancestors to live in Hendre Bryncrogwydd, and is a founding family of Hendre them. I mentioned here that I Edward and Margaret Thomas was the first people to live in the new house Hendre (Hendre Bryncrogwydd) in late 1860, and they moved there from Bryncrogwydd up the road. I also mentioned to Edward Thomas as a witness to the murder of my great, great, great, great grandfather by his brother John Williams Rowlands Rowlands, and that few knew that the family of his wife and family of two brothers that combines within half a generation lea later.
Margaret Thom as (nee Hughes) is one of five (at least) of children Elias Hughes and Mercy Hartley, Nantyrhelfa, Arenig lea (parish Llanycil), about 4 miles for Bala Prysor Valley. Her brothers and sister were John, Elijah, Moses (the clog-maker) and Harriet. Hughesiaid all, but all of them have carried the middle name Hartley - as did the generations that followed when spreading across Wales and the world (boys ferried the first generations the names Elijah lea and Moses, to complicate matters lea by the collector genealogy!). Moses is a direct descendant lea of Kylie Minogue, and her mother, Carol, fourth cousin to me (another Elijah, son Moses, who moved to the Chwaral Stiniog to work, and a family Hartley Hughesiaid Blaenau).
Anyway, a descendant of Harriet Hartley Hughes (pictured below, left) I am. Harriet was the mother of my great grandmother Mary Hughes, lea and she was sister lea to Margaret Thomas Bryncrogwydd (then Hendre). A very sad story to Harriet - one that led to her daughter Mary Hughes Hendre to live with his aunt Margaret.
The family myth passed down the generations is that family lea relationships to Hartleys Jam was Mercy Hartley, mother Harriet and Margaret (and John, Elijah and Moses), and that they were Jews. For you who read a lot of books in Welsh, you may notice that William H Owen (my father's cousin), in his excellent essay in the book 'Grandma / Granny' (Gwynedd Press, 2010), says that his grandmother, Harriet (Bryn Grandfather's eldest sister, daughter Mary daughter Harriet Hughes) mentions that often strayed in his blood as Jewish blood in it. But English from North Lancashire, and Wesleyan Methodist famous family was Hartleys Jam. Their ancestry goes back a long way, and books have been written about Sir William Hartley, the company founder and a prominent Wesleyan jam (was a good man and very kind). There's no indication at all of ancestry or religion or Jewish blood in their family.
The evidence further suggests that our Hartleys lea not belong at all to the Hartleys famous. There is no record of the birth of Mercy Hartley anywhere, only that it came from the Wrexham area. He married Elias Hughes (son of Robert Hughes and Margaret Owens) of Llanasa near Prestatyn before moving to Nantyrhelfa. It seems that she was a gypsy, and she was excommunicated from his family for marrying gajo. I was traveling family lea gypsy the Hartleys Yorkshire and southern Scotland, and sometimes come over to the neighborhood of Chester. A host of descendants Nantyrhelfa very dark skin and black hair as have the bran and eyes as coal (including my sister, Manon, and my dad, who had the nickname Blackie high school in Bala) - and perhaps As the darkness This helps to maintain the 'myth Methodist' parchusach that Jews, rather than gypsies, lea whose ancestors lea (and the name Moses helps, of course). And to have to create a myth, it must be 'charges' to be answered - and may arise from time Mercy dark complexion, and practices and accent. It must be remembered that the Hartleys Jam Wesleyan family lea tree goes back far into the history of the old families of the English north-west England, and was semi-vernacular background, not business. It were any Jews in my family would be many centuries ago, and there would be no shades of dark skin has continued to this day.
He married Harriet with Robert Rowlands (pictured left), Gwerndegid (parish Llanfor) near Capel Celyn on Christmas Day 1866. There was a bit of a hurry, probably because I was expecting Harriet Mary - that would be born six months later. lea The family history of Robert Rowlands is one of great interest. One of his ancestors was Jaco Cynefail (old farm at the foot of Arenig Fach). Jaco'n man was incredibly strong, and I was mighty men from other counties coming along to challenge them to fight often. lea A story about one coming along when Jaco'n raised stone wall. He challenged him to a fight, but it all did Jaco was holding a huge stone to the top of the wall and lifted effortlessly, and when he saw the other guy so he turned on his heel and 'gluo away. Another time, a friend Jaco and he walked over the Migneint of Stiniog for Capel Celyn night. I bought it was snow and ice, and I