Working Abroad - Welsh Emigration: Slate

Griffith Owen-Jones and his wife Kate

Griffith Owen-Jones and his wife Kate, who moved from Bethesda, Wales to Granville, New York State

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Nia Evans Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales Staff
31 July 2020, 10:10

Dear P Williams,

Thank you for getting in touch with us. Would it be possible at all for you to

email
a copy of the photo you found to my colleague who is the curator for Contemporary and Cultural History? She will be able to have a look and advise further that way.

Kind regards,

Nia
(Digital team)

P Williams
25 July 2020, 18:52
In an old family album of cartes de visite I have found a photo of manual labourers, perhaps quarrymen or miners, but their headgear doesn't look Welsh. As there appears to have been some ancestral emigration to Fair Haven, Vermont, I wonder if these workmen were photographed there. How can I get an opinion of the costume?

Nancy
11 September 2017, 16:31
I would appreciate if you would post in my Facebook group i created for the interest of my family and friends. Wales Past Present Future...Also recommendations to reading a timeline of the Welsh/Britons so as my grandchildren will not grow up as ignorant of our history as my generation. Many Thanks Nancy Thomas Ward