Annie Jones, correspondence

The collection consists of correspondences between Annie Jones, Postmistress at Lamb House, Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, and various family members and friends. Most notably her sister Maggie and nephew James. She wrote many letters after her retirement, with detailed descriptions of village life in rural Carmarthenshire. Later she wrote regularly from her care home in Glanmarlais Old Peoples’ Home, Llandybie, Carmarthenshire.

Lamb house once formed part of the Abergwenlais Estate, where Rhys Jones a shoemaker lived with his wife and four children. One of their daughters, Annie, lived on in the house. One of Annie’s sisters, Jane, had died young; her other sister, Maggie, was a teacher in Pontypool; and her only brother, Willie, kept a draper’s shop (Jones and Richards) in Blackwood, Gwent. During Annie’s period in the house, the Rev. Emrys Evans, the Methodist Minister, was a lodger there. She became the village post mistress in 1942 when Mr Phillip retired, a position which she held until retiring in 1972. Annie Jones spent the last years of her life, between 1980 and 1985, at Glanmorlais old peoples’ home in Llandybie, Carmarthenshire.

Ar Agor / Open

Dim cyfyngiadau / No Restrictions

Adnau preifat / Private deposit

Acc. No: 8990.

Mae copiau clawr caled o`r catalogau ar gael yn Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin ac yn y Gofrestr Cenedlaethol Archifau. Polisi Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin yw catalogio yn iaith y ddogfen / Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Carmarthenshire Archives and the National Register of Archives. It is the policy of Carmarthenshire Archives to catalogue in the language of the document.

Cyflwr da / Good condition

Compiled by Gareth H. Davies for Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin / Carmarthenshire Archives using the following source: Carmarthenshire Archives Service Catalogue, CDX/1135.

Mae'r holl gofnodiadau sy'n cydymffurfio â pholisi casglu Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin wedi eu cadw / All records which meet the collection policy of the Carmarthenshire Archives have been retained

Deposited on the 22nd November 2023.

Ni ddisgwylir croniadau / Accruals are not expected