William Jones, Llanberis, Family Papers

Photographs and papers of the family of William W. Jones ('Wil Patrwm'), 1887-[1982], comprising letters of William W. Jones, Thomas Jones ('Tom Patrwm'), William Colliver and others, mainly to Mercedes Katie Batten (née Jones), 1912-1944; miscellaneous family papers, [post 1895]-1947, [1982]; photographs, [1887]-[1963], of the Jones family, of Dinorwic Quarry and Lambeth Infirmary, and views of North Wales.

William W. Jones ('Wil Patrwm', fl. 1877-1944), quarryman, of 2 Victoria Terrace, Llanberis, Caernarfonshire, was married to Kate Colliver (b. [1864]). She was the daughter of Mary Luke ([1829]-1895) and Thomas Colliver ([1814]-1895) who had come to the Llanberis area from Cornwall. Kate had a sister, Bessie, and a brother, William Colliver (b. 1850), who emigrated to Australia in 1886. William and Kate had five children: Mercedes Katie, Willie, Thomas, Edgar and Evan. Thomas ('Twm Patrwm', b. 1902) was, like his father, a pattern maker at the Dinorwic Quarry. Willie ([1898]-1917) served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in the First World War and died in hospital in Egypt. Mercedes Katie Jones (b. 1895) was a nurse at Lady Margaret Hospital, Bromley, Kent, and at the Lambeth Infirmary, London. She married Edward William Batten and had a son of the same name, born in 1922.

Arranged into the following: letters to Mercedes Katie Batten; miscellaneous family papers; and photographs.

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Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Caernarfon Record Office, Photographs and papers of the family of William Jones 'Wil Patrwm', pattern maker at the Dinorwic Quarry, Llanberis, catalogue.

Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Caernarfon Record Office and Meirionnydd Archives.

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