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Pictured: The S.S. Anglia, the ship that brought Charles Edward Duff to the United States from his home in Scotland in 1868. He returned to Scotland after finding work in Cleveland, Ohio, to bring his family back in 1872.
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Tyn Rhos church and cemetery are located just south of the Raccoon Township line in Perry Township on Tyn Rhos Road in western Gallia County, Ohio. A large Welsh settlement developed in Jackson and Gallia Counties starting around 1818, and many of those Welsh immigrants were from Cilcennin Parish in Cardiganshire, where our ancestors, Thomas Lewis and Margaret Williams were married in 1816. The Lewis family came to Gallia County in 1839, going to Pittsburgh for a few years, but back in Gallia County before long. The photo shows the graves of Thomas and Margaret near the front of the cemetery.
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).
There are five different "trees" in the complete database. The list of the top 100 surnames is compiled from all the trees combined, not just from the single tree that most users will access. That tree may not contain all the names listed below. For example, Hache is shown as a top surname, but clicking on Hache results in the error message "No results found..." That surname is found only in one of the "hidden" trees.
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