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JAMES, MARIA (1793 - 1868), poet Born 11 October 1793, possibly in north Wales. In 1800 she emigrated with her parents to U.S.A. The family settled in Clinton, New York, and she spent most of her life, from the age of 10 onwards, as a maid servant. She exhibited considerable skill at composing poetry, and a collection of her works was edited by A. Potter and published in New York in 1839 under the title, Wales and other Poems
JAMES, OWEN WALDO (1845 - 1910), Baptist minister Born at Llanfachraeth, Anglesey, son of John and Margaret James, and brother of Edward James, Nevin. His family were Congregationalists, but he himself joined the Baptists at Pontyrarw during the ministry of John Jones (Mathetes, 1821 - 1878), and he was one of the first six students to enter Llangollen Baptist College. He was ordained at church, Dowlais, 1865, and moved to the Tabernacle
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer Son of Thomas James and his wife; born at Manafon, Montgomeryshire, 13 August 1862. Soon afterwards the family moved to Wyddi-goed, Llanfechain, but his parents died when he was young and he was brought up by his grandparents at Garth Isaf, Rhosybrithdir, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant. He began preaching with the Methodists at Rhosybrithdir, went to Didsbury College, Manchester, and after passing his
JAMES, THOMAS EVAN (Thomas ap Ieuan; 1824 - 1870), Baptist minister, and author Born 17 March 1824 at Pencraig, Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire, the son of Evan and Mary James. The family moved to Cardigan when he was about 13 years of age. He worked for a while as a farm labourer at Heol-cwm, Verwick, Cardiganshire. He joined the Baptist denomination, and served the chapel of Groes-goch, Pembrokeshire, as unordained minister, 1851-2. He was ordained, and became minister of
JAMES, WILLIAM (1769 - 1847), Methodist and member of the 'Trevecka Family' He died 13 June 1847, aged 78, is recorded here as having been the last survivor of the ' Trevecka Family' established by Howel Harris. Possibly he was the son of the Glamorganshire William James who (with wife and two daughters) entered the Family in 1776.
JANNER, BARNETT (BARON JANNER), (1892 - 1982), politician 'Barney' Janner was born in Lucknick, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, on 20 June 1892, the second child of Joseph Vitum-Janner (c.1864-1932) and Gertrude Zwick (c.1864-1902). Within nine months of his birth, his father took the family to Barry, Glamorganshire, where Joseph Janner became a furniture dealer, first at 31 Holton Road and later in the High Street. Besides their eldest
JARMAN, ALFRED OWEN HUGHES (1911 - 1998), Welsh scholar year. He had learned Welsh partly in the Sunday school and services at Twrgwyn chapel though the family (Thomas Jarman was not a Welsh-speaker) were members at Prince's Road English chapel. Fred Jarman completed a teacher training course in 1934 and then embarked on an ambitious research project, a study of the Welsh Myrddin poetry, mainly in the Black Book of Carmarthen, which gained him his M.A. in
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author Eldra Jarman was born on 4 September 1917 in Aberystwyth, daughter of Ernest France Roberts and his wife Edith (née Howard). Both her parents were of Roma descent, her father the grandson of John Roberts (Alaw Elwy) and her mother the daughter of Eldorai Wood, who had dual Irish and Roma heritage. Following an increasing tendency towards integration among the Roma, Eldra's family had settled in
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge Born at Acton, Wrexham, on 15 May 1645, the sixth son of John Jeffreys and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Ireland of Bewsey, Lancashire ('a very pious good woman ' according to her son). His grandfather JOHN JEFFREYS (died 1622), chief justice of the Anglesey circuit of the Great Sessions, who had first adopted the family surname, laid the foundations of Acton estate by expanding and
JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman Leslie (1790-1865). It was not uncommon at the time for men stationed in Jamaica to take a mistress for the duration of their postings and the illegitimate offspring were recorded in the baptismal registers as the 'supposed children' of their fathers. At the end of his Jamaica posting McMurdo went on to Canada where he married a well-connected white woman, and started a legitimate family, before
JEFFREYS, THOMAS TWYNOG (1844 - 1911), poet Born at Tal-sarn, Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, 25 February 1844. From the village school he went, at about 14, to work on a family farm, Pwllygerwyn. In 1864, he became a shop-assistant at Aberdare, and became active in the literary and religious life of that town. In 1869 he married Ellen, daughter of John Evans (known as Cymro Du), an official in the Aber-nant iron-works; and when Evans moved
JENKINS, DANIEL (1856 - 1946), schoolmaster and devotee of Welsh literature and music ' Archdruid of the field '. He came from a noted family of local poets. With David Lewis he edited the works of one of them, Cerddi Cerngoch, 1904. He also published Cerddi Ysgol Llanycrwys in 1934. This consisted of a collection of poems made year by year by well-known poets for the celebration of St. David's Day at Llan-y-crwys from 1901 to 1920, with a short history of the parish. He married in 1886

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