Tag: Merionethshire history

• The Welsh Blood Behind an England Captain, Arthur Owen Jones, and Why His Story Still Matters

  There is something quietly extraordinary about the story of Arthur Owen Jones, one of the most gifted cricketers of the Edwardian era, a man who captained England, broke county records, and reshaped the game through sheer athletic intelligence, yet is now far less widely remembered than he deserves. What makes his story even more personal,…

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  19/01/2026

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  Arthur Owen Jones, Ashes history, Barmouth, books, British identity, British sporting history, Cambridge University cricket, cricket, Cricket fielding, Cricket history, Dolgellau, Edwardian Britain, Edwardian cricket, England cricket captain, England v Australia, English cricket, family history, Genealogy, Glandwr, Great War era, Gully position, history, Jesus College Cambridge, Jones family, Merionethshire history, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Nottinghamshire cricket, Pneumonia, Social history, Sporting biography, Sporting heritage, sports, test-cricket, Tuberculosis history, Victorian Britain, Victorian sport, Welsh ancestry, Welsh diaspora, Welsh family history, Welsh roots, Wisden Cricketer of the Year

• William Halse Gatty Jones (1825 – 1897): From Gold-Rush Melbourne to the Hills of Merioneth

  My first cousin four times removed, William Halse Gatty Jones, lived a life that stretched across two hemispheres and mirrored the restless energy of the nineteenth century. Born in London on 8 March 1825, he began as a City solicitor, made his fortune amid the Australian gold rush, and returned to Wales to become a…

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  29/09/2025

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  Australian legal history, Borthwnog Estate, City of London history, family history, family history blog, Gatty Jones, Genealogy, Glandwr Hall, history, Jones family history, Law Institute of Victoria, Melbourne gold rush, Merionethshire history, nineteenth century Wales, scotland, Skinners Company, Victorian Legislative Assembly, Victorian Wales, Wales, Welsh ancestors, Welsh diaspora, Welsh emigrants Australia, Welsh genealogy, Welsh landed gentry, William Halse Gatty Jones