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1788 - 1867 (79 years)| Name | Margaret A. Williams | |
| Birth | cir 1788 | Wales  |
| Gender | Female | |
| Residence | 31 Dec 1816 | Cilcennin, Cardiganshire, Wales Although there is also a small village called Cilcennin, Cilcennin in this database refers to the parish of Cilcennin in Cardiganshire, Wales. Extract from ‘A Topographical Dictionary of Wales‘ by Samuel Lewis 1833 “KÎLKENNIN (CÎL-CENIN), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of ILAR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 9 1/4miles (N. W. by N.) from Lampeter, comprising the Upper and Lower hamlets, each of which maintains its own poor, and containing 695 inhabitants. This place is remarkable in history as the scene of a slaughter committed, in 1210 by Rhys and Owain ab Grufydd, at the head of a chosen band of three hundred men, on a superior body of English and Welsh troops, under the command of their uncle Maelgwyn, whom John King of England had reinforced with a body of auxiliaries, to aid him in recovering possession of the estates wrested from him by Llewelyn ab Iorwerth, the reigning prince of North Wales, and by him given to Maelgwyn’s nephews, who, unable to meet in open combat the force under their uncle’s command, here approached his camp secretly by night, and, furiously rushing upon his unarmed soldiers, slew many of them, and compelled the rest, among whom was Maelgwyn himself, to seek safety by flight. The parish is computed to contain about one thousand acres, mostly arable, in some parts rocky and hilly, and in others flat, of which about forty are subject to inundation: the only river is the Ayron, which skirts a part of it. The living is vicarial, being consolidated with the vicarage of Llanbadarn-Trêveglwys, in the archdeaconry of Cardigan, and diocese of St.David’s. The church, dedicated to St. Cannen has recently been rebuilt, in the later style of English architecture, the expense of which was defrayed by public contributions. There is a place of worship for Independents. On the summit of an eminence, in this parish, are the remains of an ancient castle, called Bwlch y Castell, of the foundation and history of which no particulars have been recorded. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the poor amounts to £126.18.” |
| Immigration | 1 Oct 1839 | |
| Death | 11 Oct 1867 | Centerpoint, Gallia County, Ohio, USA |
| Burial | Tyn Rhos Cemetery, Perry Township, Gallia County, Ohio, USA From Calvinists Incorporated by Anne Kelly Knowles: While the Calvinistic Methodist chapels were located mainly in Madison and Jefferson townships, the chapels built by Congregationalists and other denominations were concentrated along the periphery, particularly on the southeastern side of the settlement. John and Elizabeth Jones, Ty'n Rhos, former members of the Congregational chapel in Cilcennin, organized a seiat in their home shortly after settling in Raccoon Township in 1838. In 1841 they deeded a parcel of their land for the settlement's first Congregational chapel, appropriately named Tyn Rhos (today, pronounced Tin Rohs). |
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Margaret Williams Lewis |
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Thomas and Margaret Williams Lewis The Lewis stones are located near the front of the cemetery. |
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Thomas and Margaret Lewis The Lewis stones are the two in the middle of the picture, Thomas on the left and Margaret on the right. They are near the front of the cemetery near Tyn Rhos Road. |
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Thomas and Margaret Lewis and the (new) Tyn Rhos church Margaret's stone is the one with the large white area on it, and Thomas's is to its right from this back view. |
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| Person ID | I172 | Bryan-Martin |
| Last Modified | 12 Mar 2025 | |
| Family | Thomas Lewis, b. cir 1789, Wales d. 23 Mar 1854, Gallia County, Ohio, USA (Age 65 years) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marriage | 31 Dec 1816 | Cilcennin, Cardiganshire, Wales Although there is also a small village called Cilcennin, Cilcennin in this database refers to the parish of Cilcennin in Cardiganshire, Wales. Extract from ‘A Topographical Dictionary of Wales‘ by Samuel Lewis 1833 “KÎLKENNIN (CÎL-CENIN), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of ILAR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 9 1/4miles (N. W. by N.) from Lampeter, comprising the Upper and Lower hamlets, each of which maintains its own poor, and containing 695 inhabitants. This place is remarkable in history as the scene of a slaughter committed, in 1210 by Rhys and Owain ab Grufydd, at the head of a chosen band of three hundred men, on a superior body of English and Welsh troops, under the command of their uncle Maelgwyn, whom John King of England had reinforced with a body of auxiliaries, to aid him in recovering possession of the estates wrested from him by Llewelyn ab Iorwerth, the reigning prince of North Wales, and by him given to Maelgwyn’s nephews, who, unable to meet in open combat the force under their uncle’s command, here approached his camp secretly by night, and, furiously rushing upon his unarmed soldiers, slew many of them, and compelled the rest, among whom was Maelgwyn himself, to seek safety by flight. The parish is computed to contain about one thousand acres, mostly arable, in some parts rocky and hilly, and in others flat, of which about forty are subject to inundation: the only river is the Ayron, which skirts a part of it. The living is vicarial, being consolidated with the vicarage of Llanbadarn-Trêveglwys, in the archdeaconry of Cardigan, and diocese of St.David’s. The church, dedicated to St. Cannen has recently been rebuilt, in the later style of English architecture, the expense of which was defrayed by public contributions. There is a place of worship for Independents. On the summit of an eminence, in this parish, are the remains of an ancient castle, called Bwlch y Castell, of the foundation and history of which no particulars have been recorded. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the poor amounts to £126.18.” [1] |
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| Documents |  | Marriage Record of Thomas Lewis and Margaret Williams Parish of Cilcennin, Cardiganshire, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Family ID | F45 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified | 15 Nov 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Photos |  | Parish Church of St. Michael, Ciliau Aeron, Cardiganshire, Wales Most of the children of Thomas and Margaret Williams Lewis were baptized in Ciliau Aeron, possibly in this church. |
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