Friday 30 September 2011

CAERNARFON CORN RIOT DISTURBANCE 1752; Info with photos of related locations



  1. Caernarfon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Caernarfon is a Royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9611. It lies along the A487 road, on the east banks of the Menai ...



    TRIBUTES IN MEMEMORY OF THE MURDERED QUARRYMAN 

    AND THE 'OLD GELDER' OF CAERNARFON.



    Carnarvon Traders - Caernarfon's Yesterdays

    www.carnarvontraders.com/riot.shtml
    Caernarfon Ddoe/Caernarfon's Yesterdays header ... 1882); the author refers to him as Councillor Williams and gives an account of a riot in the town in 1752. ...


  2. Caernarfonshire Quarter Sessions Records

    www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id...
    Gwynedd Archives: Caernarfon Record Office ... burglary, assault, drunkenness, poaching, vagrancy, rioting, unlawful cutting of timber, and encroachment. ... 1660-1870; corn return certificates, 1776-1818; volunteers' certificates and related 


5 - National Library of Wales: Crime and Punishment : Search Results
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Results 201 - 250 of 804 – ... how they proceeded on in Llyn,' [ i.e. corn riots] and continued to co. ... Parish: Edern; County: Caernarfon; Date: 11 May 1757 ...


SHIREHALL STREET


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Riotous community:

www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/archive/riotous_community.pdf
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community sanctions; election riots and celebrations; or, indeed, hundreds of angry ...children seizing 'hoards' of corn, breaking into a warehouse, intimidating ...... wife were enthusiastically welcomed at Caernarfon in a similar fashion: 'the ...


CASTLE STREET


Jones, Modern Wales

himedo.net/TheHopkinThomasProject/.../JonesModernWales.htm
There had been corn riots in Wales in the 1740s and 1750s but the situation at the end of the eighteenth century was particularly serious, with malnutrition and ...


SOUTH PENRALLT THE 'OLD GELDER' LIVED HERE IN AN HOUSE OPPOSITE MORIAH CHAPEL, SINCE BURNT DOWN:

Memory Lane: Moriah Chapel fire, 1976 - Caernarfon Herald

www.caernarfonherald.co.uk/caernarfon...caernarfon.../memory-lane...
25 Aug 2011 – A HUGE fire which engulfed a 150 year old chapel and is still remembered by many in Caernarfon today – hit the headlines in June 1976.
 
Not sure of location but see photo below, little space on South Penrallt, perhaps suitable for a plaque in memory of the 'Old Gelder'. 


.....also why not a plaque re this history of this Caernarfon Corn Riot 1752 down by the Anglesey Arms or close by, think on!


The Official Nantlle Valley Website > The Village of Llandwrog

www.nantlle.com/llandwrog-english.htm
It is likely that the row of 'tai uncorn' (traditional cottages with one chimney) on the road fron Llandwrog to the main road A499 were erected sometime after 1823. ...


Llandwrog Church above and the Harp Hotel below.



Path to the summit of Mynydd Cilgwyn

www.geolocation.ws/v/W/.../path-to-the-summit-of...cilgwyn/en
8 Mar 2011 – Wayside shrine at Cilgwyn This shrine of Our Lady of Mount .


Cilgwyn Slate Quarry
www.mine-explorer.co.uk/mines/Cilgwyn_144/Cilgwyn.asp -Block all www.mine-explorer.co.uk results
Photographs of Cilgwyn Slate Quarry uploaded by AndyC ... Cilgwyn - tramway.Cilgwyn Slate QuarryCilgwyn - access road. Cilgwyn - access road ...


Llanbeblig Church.

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Further History and Information.

MUDIAD COFIWN Past, Present & Future?: CAERNARFON 4 RAGFYR 2010 ...

cofiwn.blogspot.com/2010/.../caernarfon-4-ragfyr-2010-remember.h... -Block all cofiwn.blogspot.com results
19 Nov 2010 – CAERNARFON 4 RAGFYR 2010: REMEMBER THE 'MURDERED MARTYRS' OF THE CORN RIOT 1752 PRIOR OR POST THE 'NO CUTS' RALLY SAME DAY. ...

Welsh Remembrancer.: RIOTRIOTRIOT! THIS DAY IN HISTORY ...

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19 Aug 2011 – Plus Radical Patriots note the C.O.R.N Call to remember the 'Murdered Martyrs' of the Caernarfon Corn Riot of 1752, info in W.R. blog above. ...

GWYNEDD GOCH


Nineteenth century moorland enclosures and former smallholdings ...

www.geolocation.ws/v/W/4d75317c8786560f75039a07/.../en -Block all www.geolocation.ws results
7 Mar 2011 – This led to riots, and troops were brought in to arrest the ring ... Today, kids go to swim at the Leisure Centre in Caernarfon 7 miles away. ... Corncrakes would nest in the corn and would create a racket at night time. ...

A FUTURE PITCHFORK and PIKE PRESENTATION After another Glyndwr Radical Ramble - Walking back into our past. The above in connection with the story of the struggle of Vagabond Quarrymen. Someone out there write a booklet please, here's one for Gwasg Garreg Gwalch maybe?


CYMRWCH Y TIR YN OL/TAKE BACK THE LAND

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12 hours ago – CYMRWCH Y TIR YN OL/TAKE BACK THE LAND. Campaigning Against an Old Conquest and a New Conquest of Wales by Means of Cheque ...

WALKING BACK INTO HISTORY

GLYNDWR RAMBLERS

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3 Sep 2011 – GLYNDWR RAMBLERS PATHFIDER TRAILS - WALKING BACK INTO WELSH HISTORY - EXPLORING OUR HISTORICAL HERITAGE IN IT'S ...

.....with purpose of course:

CAMPAIGNS CYMRU: WHO FIGHTS FOR WALES/CYMRU? FOR ...

ymgyrch.blogspot.com/.../who-fights-for-walescymru-for-sure-its.ht...
3 days ago – WHO FIGHTS FOR WALES/CYMRU? FOR SURE IT'S NOT THE PLAIDCYMRU WELSH NATIONALISTS, CULTURAL OR OTHERWISE AND ...