Post by llosgi calch on Apr 25, 2011 7:46:49 GMT
Bore da Members,
I have received the following email from a Mr Ray Kelly in Queensland, Austrailia and would like to share this with you.
It is in reference to his father who hailed from Cae Madog Farm, Gwynfryn.
I have also received additional info and shall post it below in addition to this post.
If anyone can throw any more info to this it would be most interesting and I shall also link this thread to Mr Kelly.
I don't know why it has taken a suggestion from my cousin in England for me to contact you sooner.
My father was born at Cae Madog farm in 1872. He was reared on Cae Madog and at Coedpoeth, and in 1894 at age 23 he graduated, after being examined by Bards 'Dyfed' and 'Pedrog' in versifying, and was admitted to the Bards of Britain at 'Caernarfon' He was given the name of Glan Madog. A copy of his certificate is attached.
Also attached are some other relevant documents.
My current project is to publish the poems of my father that I hold. These are mainly family related but do contain some reflective poems. He quoted part of one of these at an interview in about 1950 when thinking back to his childhood at Cae Madog.
"I can see the white-washed cottage by the mill,
And hear the Murmur of the rill.
Here I sing 'Australia Fair';
But my heart is over their,
In the dear old farm-house resting on the hill."
I have accumulated quite a lot of the history of my father's life, some of it will be published with his poetry. Ted Kelly became well known and accepted in Melbourne and was active in the Cymrodorian, the Cambrian and the Royal Empire Societies. In 1937 he filled the role as the Arch-Druid in a re-enactment of the Gorsedd Challenge on St. David's Day, and he adjudicated in many of Melbourne's Eisteddfodau.
Thorough his life Edward, or Ted Kelly or Glan Madog was still and truly a Minera boy.
Now, when I approach the publication of his poetry I still have the ideal of including the verses he submitted at his examination for his Bardic Degree in 1894 when he was required "to be locked in a room for an hour during which time he had to compose six verses of eight lines on Moses on Mount Pisgah". To this end I would appreciate any help your Society can give. From the distance of Brisbane, in Australia, the lack of knowledge of how to tackle the search, and my ageing 82 year old brain, I appeal to you to help me in any way you can.
I provide several attachments about this dedicated Minera old boy, and can give you more information of his life and family if this is of interest to your Society. Incidentally he died in 'Minera', the name of his house in Camberwell, Melbourne on the 6th Jan 1956.
I am, sincerely yours,
Ray Kelly.
I have received the following email from a Mr Ray Kelly in Queensland, Austrailia and would like to share this with you.
It is in reference to his father who hailed from Cae Madog Farm, Gwynfryn.
I have also received additional info and shall post it below in addition to this post.
If anyone can throw any more info to this it would be most interesting and I shall also link this thread to Mr Kelly.
I don't know why it has taken a suggestion from my cousin in England for me to contact you sooner.
My father was born at Cae Madog farm in 1872. He was reared on Cae Madog and at Coedpoeth, and in 1894 at age 23 he graduated, after being examined by Bards 'Dyfed' and 'Pedrog' in versifying, and was admitted to the Bards of Britain at 'Caernarfon' He was given the name of Glan Madog. A copy of his certificate is attached.
Also attached are some other relevant documents.
My current project is to publish the poems of my father that I hold. These are mainly family related but do contain some reflective poems. He quoted part of one of these at an interview in about 1950 when thinking back to his childhood at Cae Madog.
"I can see the white-washed cottage by the mill,
And hear the Murmur of the rill.
Here I sing 'Australia Fair';
But my heart is over their,
In the dear old farm-house resting on the hill."
I have accumulated quite a lot of the history of my father's life, some of it will be published with his poetry. Ted Kelly became well known and accepted in Melbourne and was active in the Cymrodorian, the Cambrian and the Royal Empire Societies. In 1937 he filled the role as the Arch-Druid in a re-enactment of the Gorsedd Challenge on St. David's Day, and he adjudicated in many of Melbourne's Eisteddfodau.
Thorough his life Edward, or Ted Kelly or Glan Madog was still and truly a Minera boy.
Now, when I approach the publication of his poetry I still have the ideal of including the verses he submitted at his examination for his Bardic Degree in 1894 when he was required "to be locked in a room for an hour during which time he had to compose six verses of eight lines on Moses on Mount Pisgah". To this end I would appreciate any help your Society can give. From the distance of Brisbane, in Australia, the lack of knowledge of how to tackle the search, and my ageing 82 year old brain, I appeal to you to help me in any way you can.
I provide several attachments about this dedicated Minera old boy, and can give you more information of his life and family if this is of interest to your Society. Incidentally he died in 'Minera', the name of his house in Camberwell, Melbourne on the 6th Jan 1956.
I am, sincerely yours,
Ray Kelly.