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PAPURAU WILLIAM JONES A’I FAB, PWLLHELI
PAPERS OF WILLIAM JONES AND SON, PWLLHELI
The papers demonstrate the business and social activities and concerns of three generations of a leading family in the Pwllheli area.
The records provide much information on the community of Pwllheli, and the operations of a business in a Welsh town during the nineteenth century. The Timber Yard was started c.1837 by William Jones an entrepreneur of considerable abilities, and later managed by his son, Griffith and grandson John G. Jones, J.P.. A high proportion of the papers issue from Griffith and John G. Jones. For more information on William Jones in the social context of Pwllheli consult
D.G. Lloyd Hughes Pwllheli, An old Welsh town and its history. (Gomer Press, 1991)
T.M. Bassett ’William Jones y Drygist’ in Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, (1963)
Lewis Lloyd ’William Jones, Druggist, and the expansion of shipbuilding at Pwllheli’ in Cymru a’r Môr/Maritime Wales no.11. (1987).
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