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Post by deecy on Jun 22, 2013 13:49:04 GMT
My GGGrandtfather - Harry Moss is registered on the 1901 census as the Head of House (Farmer) at Park Farm living there with his wife Agnes (nee Rennie) and their children Thomas Henry 1898 (my GGrandfather), James and Frederick. In 1911 Harry and Agnes Moss are licing in No3 Cottages, Lodge, Brymbo with Frederick, another son Ellis and daughter Agnes. 1911 James and Thomas Henry are at Broughton Hall Farm, Broughton with their Grandparents Thomas (architect) and Hannah Moss. Thomas Henry Moss married Blodwen Jones in 1917 and had my Grandmother Linda in 1921. Then went on to have 4 other children that lived to adulthood. When I was very young I visited Park Farm with my parents - c1975 - to see relations. I live in Hertfordshire but traveled to the Wrexham area a couple of years ago to visit several places that pop up in my history. On that visit I went to Park Farm, Brymbo, Broughton Hall Farm, Lodge and Gwersyllt. I wondered if anyone could help me flash out that side of my family, particularly the Moss'. Any photos or info on No3 Cottages Lodge, Broughton Hall Farm or Park Farm Minera would be fabulous. Thank you in advance
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Post by lb on Jun 24, 2013 11:44:30 GMT
Hi, as you probably know Moss is a name with strong Minera connections in particular - there are a few miners of this name who crop up in the 19th century. One of them, Edward Moss, owned a public house in the Nant in the 1850s. There are even a few people surnamed Moss in the area now. The name also crops up in the Llanarmon registers so there is a possibility the family might have come from over that way; it was also a mining area. The Llanarmon Mosses go at least as far back as a Samuel Moss buried there in the 1740s. I know other people on this board have looked at the family in more detail so one of them will presumably have more information to offer - I'm pretty certain the Moss families in Minera are descendants of younger sons of the Llanarmon families but haven't got round to proving it yet.
Park Farm if I remember correctly was a very old landholding which was, I think, once part of the summer pasture customarily belonging to the lordship of Bromfield and Yale. Broughton Hall farm on the other hand can be traced back to the late 17th century, when it was the estate of a family called Powell. Eventually Henry Robertson, owner of Brymbo Steelworks, bought it - much of this is in Alfred Palmer's book on the country townships of Wrexham.
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Post by lb on Jun 24, 2013 13:51:24 GMT
Another nice reference: Idris Fychan's list of Welsh harpers of note mentions there was a harper called Moss at Llanarmon in tge 1860s - one of the same family no doubt.
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