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JONES, LEWIS (1837 - 1904), pioneer in Patagonia, and writer . The result was that he persuaded Welsh emigrants to undertake the venture, and he and Edwin Cynrig Roberts were sent to prepare the way for the first contingent. The emigrants were disappointed, there was a quarrel, and after three months Jones left for Buenos Aires where he spent the next eighteen months working as a printer. In 1867, however, when he heard that the Welsh colonists were proposing
ROBERTS, EDWYN CYNRIG (1837 - 1893), pioneer in Patagonia Edwyn Cynrig Roberts was born on 28 February 1837, the firstborn child of John Kendrick (1809-1839), farmer, and Mary Hughes (1809-1892), on Bryn farm, situated between the villages of Cilcain and Nannerch, Flintshire. The record of his baptism dated 14 March 1837 at Ebeneser Independent Chapel, Rhes-y-cae, parish of Halkyn, shows that he was named Edwin Hughes Kendrick. Soon after the birth of a

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