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"LLANFAIR-MATHAFARN-EITHAF, a parochial chapelry in the hundred of Tyndaethwy, county Anglesey, 5 miles from Llanerch-y-med, 7 miles N. W. of Beaumaris, its post town, and the same distance from the Llanfair railway station. It is situated on the N.W. shore of Red Wharfe Bay. It abounds with fine marbles of different varieties, and stone used for corn mills. The village is considerable. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory of Llanddvvnan, in the diocese of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. In the churchyard is a mutilated cross and a modern carnedd, composed of a rude heap of stones, forming a cavern, the mouth of which is closed by a large stone after the ancient Jewish fashion, and is at present the burial-place of the Wynne family. The charities produce about £3 per annum. This was the birth-place' of Goronwy Owen, the linguist and bard." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Robinson, Jane L . Benllech and its surrounding parish of Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf. Wrexham : Bridge Books, c1993. 60p
Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at Anglesey Record Office.
Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf - on wicipedia (Welsh)
LLANVAIR MATHAVARNEITHAV (LLAN - VAIR-MATHAVARN-EITHAV), a parish in the hundred of TYNDAETHWY, county of ANGLESEY, NORTH WALES, 9 miles (N. W. by W.) from Beaumaris, containing 739 inhabitants. This parish, which is not of very great extent, is situated on the shore of the Irish sea : the greater part is in a good state of cultivation, and the common lands have been recently enclosed and several houses erected on them. Black, grey, and variegated marble are found within its limits, the last of which is of very superior quality, and, from the variety and brilliancy of its colours, and the high degree of polish of which it is susceptible, is in very great estimation, and is sent in considerable quantities to various parts of Great Britain. The quarries being near the coast, the produce is shipped without much difficulty ; and the procuring of the marble affords employment to a considerable number of the inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Llanddyvnan, in the archdeaconry of Anglesey, and diocese of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There are places of worship for Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists. The interest, arising from some small charitable benefactions, the principal of which is one-third of the rental of a farm in this parish, let at £75 per annum, is annually distributed among the poor. In a small cottage in this parish the celebrated bard Goronw Owen was born, on the 1st of January, 1722. He obtained in the free school of Bangor the rudiments of an education which he afterwards completed at Jesus' College, Oxford, and was appointed by the Bishop of Bangor curate of his native parish. He afterwards re-moved to Oswestry, and subsequently to Northolt in Middlesex ; but meeting with no preferment in the church adequate to the support of his family, he obtained from the Cymrodorion Society a sum of money, with the assistance of which he emigrated to Williamsburg in Virginia, of which church he was appointed minister, where he died in 1769. His discourses were eminently distinguished for originality and brilliancy of conception, and his acquirements in classical and oriental Iiterature were of no ordinary extent : his " Search after Happiness," and his " Day of Judgment," are said to be unrivalled by any similar production of the last century. A sum of money has been raised by his countrymen for the purpose of erecting a monument to his memory. The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor is £169. 4. ( A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833)
Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf Memorial Committee Minute Book 1919-1921 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales "Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf Memorial Committee was involved in the erection of a Memorial Hall for Goronwy Owen and the men who had fallen during the First World War"
Held at Anglesey Record Office (NRA);
"Goronwy Owen (1723-1769) was one of Wales's most important poets of the eighteenth century...................born in 1723 to a poor family in the parish of Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf, Anglesey" - on the Digital Mirror at the NLW
Photograph of Y Dafarn Goch, birthplace of Goronwy Owen (and other material) - on the Gathering the Jewels site
Girl Guides Camp at Porth Llongdy, Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf in 1925 - on the Gathering the Jewels site
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