Les tombes de Church Island, Menai Bridge

Les tombes de Church Island, Menai Bridge

Utilisez les listes et la carte ci-dessous pour trouver les tombes intéressantes que nous avons sélectionnées à Church Island, ainsi nommée à cause de la vieille église St Tysilio. Cliquez sur le nom de la personne pour voir les renseignements qui le/la concernent (en Anglais), complétés par une photo de la tombe pour faciliter sa localisation.

Quand vous allez à la recherche de ces tombes, veuillez prendre soin de vous et vous souvenir que le sol d’un cimetière peut être irrégulier.

Vous pouvez entendre la lecture de textes de poésie galloise enregistrés spécialement sur nos pages concernant Hugh Emyr-Davies et Sir Cynan Evans-Jones ainsi que l’enregistrement d’un cantique de “Corfanydd”.

Le monument commémoratif de la guerre se dresse sur le point le plus élevé de l’île.

Pour découvrir les origines du nom du lieu Ynys Gorad Goch (île proche dotée de pièges à poissons), consultez les renseignements sur la tombe de Catherine Jones (qui vivait sur cette île).

Code postal : LL59 5HD

Comment trouver Church Island ? Cliquez ici pour obtenir la carte

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Northern sector

1, William Jones (d.1940) - killed in Dover port when a German aircraft attacked his minesweeper
2, Hugh Emyr Davies (d.1950) - chapel minister and poet who won many chairs and crowns at eisteddfodau
3, Sir Cynan Evans-Jones (d.1970) - poet, dramatist, preacher, playwright, theatrical producer and university tutor
4, John Charles Jones (d.1956) - Bishop of Bangor and missionary in Africa
5, Robert and Roderick Jones (d.1917 and 1944) - brothers who died in army service in different world wars
6, David White Griffith (d.1876) - Anglesey's chief constable for almost 20 years
7, Glyn Roberts (d.1962) - organised UK wartime supplies in USA. Later Bangor’s Welsh history professor
8, FWR Brambell (d.1970) - zoology professor who launched Bangor’s marine science expertise

Southern sector
10, Richard Davies (d.1896) - wealthy Liberal MP, trader, ship owner and Methodist benefactor
11, Gracie Davies (d.1919) - Mentioned in Dispatches for her work at Red Cross hospital in First World War
12, Alexander William Connington (d.1918) - Australian airman brought here for burial by local relatives
13, William Jones (d.1877) - Anglesey's coroner for 40 years. Held inquest on hundreds who died in Royal Charter wreck
14, Robert Herbert Williams (d.1876) - Liverpool draper, aka "Corfanydd", who wrote hymns and cultivated a famous beard
15, Catherine & Catherine Jones (d.1865 & 1924) - lived on Ynys Gorad Goch, a nearby island famed for its fish traps
16, Thomas Hughes (d.1890) - draper credited with the idea of lengthening Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll’s name
17, John Owen (d.1830) - worked as a livestock feeder
18, Henry Fisher (d.1851) - first keeper of Menai Suspension Bridge, which he helped to build
19, Mary Blackwell (d.1801) - lived with husband Thomas at ferry house. He died before Telford's bridge replaced ferry
20, John Evans, Y Bardd Cocos (d.1888) - famed for his poetry, which was unintentionally inane

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