Haulfre

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Haulfre, Ffriddoedd Road (previously 'St James' Hill), Bangor LL57 2EH



Previously recorded as Bryn Dinas. Resident Charles Pierce (aged 48 in) 1871 and wife Margaret. In the census he is recorded as a ship owner. 10 years earlier, 1861, at the age of 38 he was recorded at the Royal Hotel, Market Street, Bangor (a visitor and Merchant). By 1881 he had moved to Bryn Y Mor Bangor. Originally coming from Anglesey, the 1851 census shows him at 28yo in LLANGEFNI as a shopkeeper. Not known if he built 'Haulfre'. Pierce was Mayor 1888-1890.




(left of centre in trees) Holyhead Road in foreground

Transfered to Griffith family inc.
Mr John Edwards Griffith F.R.A.S (18/6/1843-4/7/1933). John had been living on Holyhead Road and was a Chemist by trade. He shows as the Head in 1901 and 1911 Census.

So...

1851 - ?
1861 - ?
1871 - Charles Pierce
1881 - Uninhabited / Head - 'Housekeeper' Ann Williams 30yo
1891 - Augusta Williams ELLIS (Head) 50yo (Living on own means) 3 Servants
1901 - John Edwards Griffith
1911 - John Edwards Griffith

ANGLESEY ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY AND FIELD CLUB, OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE, 1933-34.
Griffith, J. E.,f,F.R.A.S., F.L.8., J.P., Bryn Dinas, Bangor

XM/1622/2/29.
COMPLETION ACCOUNT: for the sale of Bryndinas, 30 and 31 Mount St. and 62 Orme Rd, at the Bangor sale re C. Pozzi deceased.

Transfered into UCNWB ownership as halls of residence.

c1942 - Student residence accommodating 21 male students as an annex to Reichel, where they used the catering and other communal facilities.  

1966 - residence of University Lecturer John Hywel who on that date deed-poll changed his name from John Griffith Hywel Jones.

In the late 1990s it was sold by the University to private real-estate/letting agents Acebarn Ltd, who made alterations (C99A/0218/11/LL) to form accommodation for 12 students.

[David Price]

J.E. Griffith of Bryn Dinas [Haulfre] is best remembered as a genealogist and antiquary.  In 1914 he published  his magisterial Pedigrees of Caernarvonshire and Anglesey Families which contains the family trees of scores of local families, the result of years of meticulous research.  He also published the Flora of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire (1894) and a Portfolio of Photographs of Cromlechs (1900).   He was an accomplished wood-carver and a knowlegable astronomer (fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society).  He died in 1933 and was buried at Glanadda cemetery. See the Dictionary of Welsh Biography.

As for the previous occupants of Bryn Dinas:

Charles Pierce, a self-made business man,  became Mayor of Bangor. For more details, see Peter Ellis Jones, Bangor 1883-1983, and Aled EamesShips and Seamen of Anglesey .

Augusta Williams-Ellis was the only daughter of the Reverend John Williams-Ellis, of Glasfryn, Llangybi, and Plas Lodwig, Upper Bangor (a wealthy gentry family, ancestors of Clough Williams-Ellis.  Augusta married J.E. Griffith (his second wife)