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  • Photographed by John Thomas c. 1885. Richard Robert Jones or 'Dic Aberdaron' (1780-1843) as he was commonly known was a travelling linguist from Aberdaron, Caernarfonshire. Despite receiving very little formal education, he is said to have been fluent in at least 14 languages. He spent many years travelling the country with his books and his cat! He was buried at St. Asaph in 1844.
First page of Dic Aberdaron's manuscript autobiography
  • Thomas Edwards or 'Twm o'r Nant' (1739-1810) was born in Llanefydd, Denbighshire, and is best known as the writer and player of a number of interludes. He wrote his autobiography in 1806 when he was 67 years old and in it he tells us that he was writing poetry and interludes before he was 9 and playing in interludes by the time he was 12 years old. This edition of his autobiography was published in 1849 as part of his complete works.
Autobiography of Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), late of Nantglyn, Denbighshire, published 1849 [image 1 of 16]
  • Annie Gwen Jones went to Hughesovka in 1889 as tutor to John Hughes' grand-daughters. She left the town in 1892. She wrote this brief personal history about 1944.
'Hughesovka Stalino', a memoir by Annie Gwen Jones, page 1 [image 1 of 14]