Montgomershire Farmers related. Bunner,Davies,Ellis  Evans,Howell, Hughes,Jehu,Jones,Morris,Owens, Reynolds, Roberts ,Rogers,Williams

Shropshire Farmers related.   Beddoes,Brisborne,Calcott, Chidley, Downes,Gittins, Hobson ,Kent, Lewis Powell, Slater,Smith, Wynn

U.K.Familes related  Billington,Church, Cobb.Edmunds, Frazer  ,Hooker, Johnston, Jourd, Morgan, Norris, Price, Rake, Remi,Stanley, Steele,Wilkinson. Warren,Woods. 

Montgomeryshire Farms.              Berriew ,Blackwood,Dyffryn , Llwynderw,Wernllwyd .Upper Brithdir Churchstoke. Bacheldre.     Forden Edderton Rhydygroes GuilsfieldBurntHouse Llanbrynmair Diosg Hafodwen Tynyrwtn, Llandysilio.Church House,Gwernybuarth Llanerfyl   Coed Talog,Neuadd Wen  Llangadfan Blowty,Cyffin,, Penygribin,    Llanfair Berthfawr Bryn Penarth, Dolgead, Gelli,, Gelligason, GwaenynogGwynyndy Llanloddian Isa and Ucha, Moeldrehaiarn, Rallt Issa,Rhydygro Llanfechain Bodynfol,Finnant, Tybaen,  Llanfihangel          Dolwar Fach Rhydebyde, TynyCyl, Llangyniew The Weeg (Wig Ucha). Llansantfraidd   Plasgwyn.  Llanwnog Grosstyd Llanwydellan Ty Issa Meifod Garth Tietref Nantymechiead. Pontyscowrid(Pant yr Cuenyd) Tregynon. Gwaintrebedde  Welshpool Glan Hafren,  Radnorshire Pentre Farm (Corwen) 

Shropshire Farms,  at Alberbury -Eyton Upper and Lower Farms and Brook House,Crew Green. Fields Farm Melverley. at Berrington- Fox Farm,Betton Strange and Russell Place.   at Bitterley-Brook House farm,Snitton Hall Farm and Church Farm and Hall Farm Ditton Priors.          at Edgmond-Adney Farm.Ellerton Grange and Whitley Manor,Chetwynd.    at Oswestry -Dunewydd Farm Whittington,;New Hall Hanmer,;Church House Farm St Martins,; Pleasant Grove Gobowen; Lower House Farm, Knockin; Penypark.Maesbury.           at Shrewsbury south -Wellbatch Farm Annscroft ;Longden Hall Farm, ;Langley Hall Acton Burnell,; Lower Farm Pitchford ;  The Manor Farm Stapleton ;Side Farm ,Netley,;Picklescote Farm Smethcott,; Walford Farm Dorrington; Castle Place Pulverbatch.,; Rectory Farm Woolstaston; Middle Farm Batchcote.Upper and Lower Sutton Farms,             at Westbury Stretton Hall,,Field Farm,; Lower Wallop Farm.    at West Felton The Fords Farm.Twyford    OtherAreas         Albrightlee Farm Battlefield .;Ash Hollow Farm Weston & Wixill Highfield House Clive,; Priors Halton Farm Ludlow; .Tudor Lodge Shawbury

Indepedent Churches /Chapels Ministers at  Ebenezer,Siloh and Penarth Chapels at Llanfair.John Hughes’s Chapel at Pontrobert.     Zion Chapel, Oswestry. Coedway Chapel, Alberbury. Bethel Chapel,Aberdare .    Penmaen Chapel at Blackwood.      Ruyton X1 Towns Chapel.,      Threapwood,Malpas,     Weedon and Flore Chapels in Northants and Ross on Wye.

Draper/Stores.,Assistants ,Managers,or Owners at.    Norbury House Aston; 290-292 Gypsy Lane,West Ham. .Bon Marche at Brixton;  Thomas Yeo. Plymouth; Wallace Hughes in Brixton; Thomas Fearn, Kilburn High St.; Bobby’s of Eastbourne; Griffin and Spalding at Nottingham.   M.Evans,Montreal      Bunners, Ironmongers of Montgomery.R.Ellis, Boat Builder Shrewsbury. Thomas Hughes Mirror Manufacturer,Euston.

Overseas.             Australia.- Charters Towers Gold Fields,: Noyea and Windaroo Sugar Plantations at Mt Warren.,:Dubbo News papers,:.Sydney- League of Health and Beauty.            Africa. Mashonaland Expedition,Fort Victoria, Boer War -Relief of Kimberley.,Driefountain etc Salous Scouts Rhodesia, Irving and Bonnar, Lagos, Nigeria   Canada. Molson’s Brewery,Montreal. Various Drapers Shops Montreal..             India. Madras Civil Service.Royal Asiatic Society,Royal.Engineers,Siaklot, Punjab         U.S.A Georgetown Silver Mines,Colorado.    East Tennessee Welsh Migration.Lake Forest, Lake County,Illinois. Ohio Preaching Tour     World War 1, Egypt,Gaza,Palestine, Ypres Arras and Flanders.

Information from Wikipedia the online Free Encyclopedia.

Rt Hon Billy Hughes               

William Morris "Billy" Hughes, (25 September, 1862 – 28 October, 1952), Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, the longest-serving member of the Australian Parliament, and one of the most colourful figures in Australian political history. Over the course of his 51-year federal parliamentary career, Hughes represented four different electorates and was expelled from three different political parties.          Early years                 

Hughes was born in London of Welsh parents: his father was a carpenter at the House of Lords. Hughes was raised in Llandudno, Wales, also spending time with relatives in rural Montgomeryshire, where he picked up some fluency in Welsh. When he was 14 he returned to London and worked as a pupil teacher. In 1884 he migrated to Australia, and worked as a labourer, bush worker and cook. He arrived in Sydney in 1886 and opened a bookshop. He joined the Socialist League and became a street-corner orator. In 1893 he became an organiser with the Australian Workers Union and joined the newly formed Labour Party.              SEE WIKIPEDIA FOR MORE INFOMATION.   

Mary Hughes with baby Helen.WM Hughes,Neville Chamberlain and his family [n Birmingham,England in May 1916.The “Hughes’s” stay at Buckingham Palace during this visit.

Australian soldiers carry 'the little digger' along George Street, Sydney in triumph after the Prime Minister returned from the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Aunt Louisa Hughes claimed that Thomas Hughes brother was William Morris Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia and that Cousin Wallace Hughes had called and been entertained by him on a family visit to Australia! Cousin Jennifer Morgan also makes this claim,writing”My grand mother Bronwen Jones told me that her mother Jane Evans(nee Hughes) often related how he used to come and stay at Llanloddian as a boy and was very naughty,putting eggs in her shoes.She referred to him as ‘cousin Billy’ and said how surprised they were when he became P.M.He corresponded with her father, but no letters remain.             

Australian Dictionary of Biography.     extract frrom

HUGHES, WILLIAM MORRIS (1862-1952), prime minister, was born on 25 September 1862 at Pimlico, London, son of William Hughes, a carpenter from North Wales employed at the Houses of Parliament, and his wife Jane, née Morris. His father was Welsh speaking, a deacon of the Particular Baptist Church and a conservative in politics. His mother, a farmer's daughter from Llansantffraid, Montgomeryshire, who had been in service in London, was English speaking and Anglican. She was thirty-seven when she married, and William Morris was her only child. She died when he was seven and for the next five years Hughes lived with his father's sister at Llandudno, where he went to school, spending his holidays on the Morris farm. In 1874 he became a pupil-teacher at St Stephen's School, Westminster. Emigrated to Australia in 1884.                                

BMD Lists confirm that William Morris Hughes parents were married in 1871 in the St George’s Hanover Square Registration District and that his birth was also registered in the same District in 1872, An application for a copy of the marriage certificate would give further details of Jane Morris’s parents and their farm in Montgomeryshire.

The 1871 Census describes William Hughes as a joiner and a widower age 47 with his son William age 8 ,a scholar,being looked after by Mary Hughes,age 52 - sister of his father all living at 9 Moreton Place,St George Rd,Westminster..Or are Mary and young Billy on holiday from Llandudno,where Billy went to School?

The 1881 Census confirms that William Morris Hughes’s mother has died and that he is now described as a Clerk ,so he must have left his job as a pupil teacher at St Stephen’s School,Westminster .His Aunt Mary has now moved down from Llandudno to look after her widowed brother and young Billy Hughes.  Mary and William Hughes were born in Holyhead,Anglesea.

What relation Billy Hughes is to our family of Hughes is still a mystery !

e-mail letters to the BBC NW Wales website re an article on William Morris Hughes give some valuable information,including how and where his mother died and the name of her brother.

Pam Wilkinson, Llandudno
Billy Hughes was born at no 7 Moreton Place, Pimlico London, the only child of William and Jane Hughes. William was a native of Llandudno and Jane a native of Llansantffraid, Powys. On May 28th 1869 his mother was killed in a rail accident at Glastonbury, on her way to visit her parents. After the funeral William Morris Hughes was sent here to live with his father's sister Miss Mary Hughes at "Bryn Rosa", Abbey Road Llandudno. We live at Bryn Rosa and there is also a plaque here to mark his childhood home. Before attending the school in Cwlach Road he attended McLaughlan's school which was at the corner of Lloyd St. and Chapel St. where the Welsh Wesleyan Chapel was and now is the Emmanuel Centre.

David T Morris, Oswestry
My Great,Great Grandfather Edward Morris was a brother to Jane Morris, mother to W M Hughes. I would like to hear from any of his Family.

Rosemary Hutchinson from N. Ireland
William Morris Hughes was a first or second cousin of my gg/father( Walter Morris d.o.b. 1853 and headmaster of St. George's School in Deal. I am wondering whether my ggg/father -Thomas Morris ( b abt 1830) in Romsey/Hampshire and Jane were first cousins and Walter (b1853) and Billy ( b1862) second cousins. You can see my ggg/father Thomas Morris and family in the 1871 England census. Both he and his wife Elizabeth were from Hampshire.Walter Morris was my gg/father.Thomas,Charles and Charlotte 'Aunt Lottie' emigrated to NSW.in 1885.I was told Wm ( Billy) was the only child of the marriage.His mother died on may 28th 1869 when William was only 6 years of age.She was on her way to visit her affectionate Parents and passed away at Glastonbury.She is buried with the other Morrises in the churchyard at Llansantffraid.                After the funeral William divided his time between his aunt ,Mary Hughes, in Llandudno and the Morris family at Llansantffraid. He later entered the teaching profession but on 8th October 1884 he sailed from England on the " Duke of Westminster" which anchored off Brisbane, Australia on 8th December 1884.                     I am also told that " For some reason, known only to himself, Hughes took two years off his age when he left England".                                                      
                                                                                               The following is what A. Dorothy - the above being her g/father wrote about Billy:
'Grandpa had a cousin, William Morris Hughes, who went to Australia. Auntie Ethel remembered being taken to the docks when all the family went to wave him good bye. In those days,if you went to Australia you never expected to see your family again. He became the Prime Minister of Australia, but we did not know this until he died. His picture was in our papers, along with his obituary, which spoke of his characteristics, one of which was his pawkish humour - just like grandpa! In fact he looked just like grandpa, and also Dad.
 

The 1851 and 1861 Census both list Jane Morris as a servant(cook) working for John H Evans.a wholesale druggist,at No 4 Sheldon Villas,Hackney. In April 1861 Jane Morris is described as aged 37, unmarried and born at Llansaintffraid.Montgomeryshire. Two months later,she marries William Hughes.

Peter and Jane Morris,the parents of our Jane Morris appear in the 1841,1851,1861 and 1871 Censuses living at Winllan in the parish of Llansaintffraid near the border with Shropshire.Peter Morris originally is described as a farm labourer,but by 1861 is farming on 45 acres.No doubt this is the family farm that Billy Hughes used to visit as a boy.The various Censuses list seven children John,Margaret,Ann ,Lewis,Mariah, Peter, Eliza and Pryce. (Jane the eldest has left for London by 1841).Note that in 1861, Mariah appears as a witness at the wedding of Jane Morris to William Hughes.The 1871 Census also lists an Edward Morris aged 13 as a farm worker on the family farm,but it is not clear. whether he is a son,grandson or unrelated.

A Copy of William Hughes and Jane Morris’s  marriage certificate confirms the biographical information given above and in addition descibes Jane’s father as Peter Morris- farmer.and William’s father as William Hughes -mason..The marriage takes place at St Peters Pimlico on June 7th 1961,and the witnesses are Charles Aldridge and Mariah Morris (Jane’s sister).William is described as a joiner.

Peter Morris’s farm at Llansaintffraid is some 15 miles N.W. of Thomas Hughes farm at Llanloddian Isaf,so it is still not clear,how Billy Hughes is related to us and why he should be visiting our Hughes farm at Llanloddian.