DYSERTH - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Gareth Davies ( Dentist )

Mabel Thomas(1885-1920) Jane THOMAS Nee HUGHES(The Mother,1855-1938) Cassie Gwendoline Thomas(1899-1977) Charles THOMAS(The Father,1852-1927) Gertrude Magde Thomas(1879-1969) *Charles Herbert THOMAS (Grandfather of Jacques THOMAS): He was a Royal Navy Officer and Vice Consul of the British Empire in TOULON (France)-married to Madeleine BERSAT 1893-1981.

Mrs Minnah Roberts (to left and behind Mrs Dai Hughes)

Job Titles:

• Founder of Voel Coaches ), Mrs Tom Arthur Jones, ?, Miss Bainbridge, ?, ?, Miss Bainbridge

One row down:- Mrs Beatrice Jones (to the left of Kerfoot)

John Roberts was born at Llewerllyd Farm, Dyserth, on March 31st, 1853. Son of Robert Roberts and Elinor (nee Roberts). John Roberts was given several honours for his pioneering work and his untiring efforts in teaching. In 1932 he was awarded a Doctorate of Laws in Wyoming and a Doctorate of Divinty at Evanston, Illinois. In 1933 in both Mr and Mrs Roberts honour the flag of Wyoming was presented to the great choir of the National Cathedral in Washington. All his papers and letters had been collected by his daughter Eleanor after his death in 1949. She typed all his papers which was quite a task as he had written everything in old English script. She put them altogether in a rough draft and placed them for safekeeping at the Western History archives at Wyoming University. In 1997 Dr Sharon Kahin came across the papers and contacted Beatrice Crofts, Eleanor's daughter and together they were awarded a grant to publish the book. Beatrice added her own reminiscence about her childhood on the Reservation and staying with her grandparents. I tried to contact her but found by now she is very frail and back on the Reservation in a Nursing Home. I was able to contact her daughter Mary Young who lives in Lander and she gave me permission to write this story. John Roberts and Laura are both buried in Lander with some of their children buried around them. (See Footnote).