My Welsh ancestors left very little in the historical record requiring me to seek for contemporaneous sources from those who knew them. A wonderful source is the daily diary of the missionary that baptized Elinor Jenkins Vaughan, my 4th Great Grandmother. Elder John Needham kept a detailed diary of his daily travels on his mission in Herefordshire and Monmouthshire in the early 1840s. It is the only record we have of Elinor’s baptism on 17 ...
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