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Trawsfynydd EVANS Family

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My Trawsfynydd family connection begins with my great maternal grandmother Elizabeth Evans born on the 13 November 1862. She died in Dolwyddelan in the Conwy Valley on the 18 June 1943 aged 80 years, and is buried in the parish with her husband, David McNaughton (1862-1935) . Elizabeth Evans (my great grandmother) Having died in 1943, I never had the honour of meeting her, or my great grandfather. Tragically, I never got to meet her daughter Marnine Grey Jones (née McNaughton) either, who was my maternal grandmother, as she too died in 1933, at the young age of only 27 years.  David and Elizabeth McNaughton and their daughter Marnine (Mannie) Elizabeth's date of birth comes from the 1939 Register, when she was living at 3 Maes y Braich, Dolwyddelan with her daughter and son-in-law's family, Jessie and Thomas Roberts . 'Auntie Jess' , as I used to call her, was the last of the fourteen McNaughton children, born in Wales. More about my McNaughton family can be found on t...