‘I UNCOVERED MY WIFE’S GREAT GRANDFATHER’S ADVENTURES IN RUSSIA’
During the 19th century, southwest Wales led the world in the copper-smelting industry. Its skilled workers emigrated to the USA, Australia and Chile where major deposits of copper ore had been found. Other Welsh smelters, including Henry Davies, made arduous and dangerous journeys across Europe to take employment in isolated copper works. His descendant’s husband Bill Williams tells us more…
MY BRICK WALL
My wife Cynthia had always believed that her paternal great grandfather Henry
