Two Welsh-speaking children born illegitimate in rural Denbighshire, only twelve miles apart. Did they meet in the countryside or later in Wrexham? The story of Francis Owens Hughes and Mary Elizabeth Roberts spans farms, collieries, Canada, tragedy at Gresford, and a pocket watch that survived when its owner did not.
A long-standing family mystery about my mum’s great-aunt, Martha Parry, and the twin daughters she gave up during the First World War seemed impossible to solve. It was only when I turned to a Facebook genealogy group that the pieces finally came together, proving that collective knowledge can break down even the strongest brick walls.
