Welsh Chapel Wedding group"

Bethel Welsh Calvanistic Methodist Chapel, Mold Road, Buckley

1908

THE WEDDING OF MR AND MRS PETER WILLIAMS

BETHEL WELSH CALVANISTIC METHODIST CHURCH

PHOTO WAS TAKEN AT THE RECEPTION AT FRON HAUL, MOLD ROAD

This photograph was taken by Lan E. Sims of Buckley and is a rare example of a group of the more affluent Buckley families - Hopwood, Iball, Cropper, Rowlands are all well-known Buckley surnames.

Mr and Mrs Thomas Hopwood, on the left, were my maternal grandparents. My mother was born in 1897.

The date of the photograph was worked out from the age of little Noel Cropper in the front row who was born in 1903. Mrs Winnie Cropper married his brother Neil in 1936, the same year that Noel died, aged 33. Neil and Winnie's son was called Noel and he ran the Lane End Post Office with his wife for many years.

Front Row:

Mrs R. O. Williams, nee Hopwood

Mrs Thomas Cropper, nee Taylor, niece of bride

Noel Cropper (1903 - 1936), son of Thomas Cropper

Dwynwen Cropper, daughter of Thomas Cropper

Mrs I. Edward, nee Hopwood, sister of bride

Miss F. Jones, Haulfryn, Padeswood Road

Second Row

T. Hopwood, 181, Mold Road

Miss Ceri Jones, Haulfryn, Padeswood Road

Peter Williams, groom

Mrs Peter Williams, nee Hopwood, bride

Mrs Maude Jones, nee Taylor, niece of bride

Mrs R. Rowlands

Mrs Williams, tea merchant

Third Row

Mrs T Hopwood, 181, Mold Road

Mrs Charles Iball, 192, Mold Road

Mrs Thomas Jones, headmistress of Board School, Haulfryn, Padeswood Road

Thomas Jones, head teacher of Board School, Haulfryn, Padeswood Road

Mrs S. E. Davies, nee Hopwood, 196, Mold Road

Miss L. Jones, Haulfryn, Padeswood Road

John Taylor, nephew of bride

Mrs Taylor, nee Hopwood, sister of bride, Fron Haul, Pren Hill, Mold Road

William Hopwood, Beech Leigh, Pren Hill, Mold Road

Mrs William Hopwood, Beech Leigh, Pren Hill, Mold Road

Reverend Peron Jones

Thomas Cropper, author of "Buckley and District"

Reverend Ellis Lloyd, Minister of the Welsh Chapel

Back Row

Charles Iball, 192, Mold Road

Robert Jones, 194, Mold Road

Elias Jones

R. Rowlands

Joseph Taylor

Reverend Dewi Emrys James

Author: Hughes, Glenys, MBE

Welsh Chapel Wedding group"

Bethel Welsh Calvanistic Methodist Chapel, Mold Road, Buckley

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