A diary,

Yr Ymwelydd Blyneddol; neu Almanac a Dydd-lyfr, am y flwyddyn 1838, Mold, with diary entries by Owen Owens, Rhes-y-cae.

Owen Owens (1792-1862), Independent minister and schoolmaster, was born in Dolgellau. He served as schoolmaster for a period of time in Dolgellau and later in Dinas Mawddwy, where he also began to preach. In 1821 he was ordained minister of Salem chapel, Cilcain and Rhes-y-cae chapel near Nannerch, Flintshire, where he also kept a school. He laboured long and hard to extricate Welsh chapels from debt and was recognised as an exemplary rural minister of his time. Owens contributed numerous articles to the Independent periodical Y Dysgedydd and published Holwyddoreg yr Ymneillduwyr Protestanaidd ... (Y Bala, 1851).

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Owen Owens (1792-1862), Independent minister and schoolmaster, was born in Dolgellau. He served as schoolmaster for a period of time in Dolgellau and later in Dinas Mawddwy, where he also began to preach. In 1821 he was ordained minister of Salem chapel, Cilcain and Rhes-y-cae chapel near Nannerch, Flintshire, where he also kept a school. He laboured long and hard to extricate Welsh chapels from debt and was recognised as an exemplary rural minister of his time. Owens contributed numerous articles to the Independent periodical Y Dysgedydd and published Holwyddoreg yr Ymneillduwyr Protestanaidd ... (Y Bala, 1851).

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 9323A.

Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 135.

May 2011.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifan for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961);

For other diaries of Owen Owens see NLW MSS 6085-6087A (containing diaries for 1822, 1823 and 1835) and NLW MS 11086A (which includes a diary for 1833).

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