Excerpt from Bedd Gelert: Its Facts, Fairies,& Folk-Lore
This work is based upon the articles by Mr. William Jones (Bleddyn) in Y Brython, 1861, which, together with his essay on "The Folk-Lore of Carnarvonshire," the present writer has secured for the purpose of giving the English reader an idea of what the inhabitants of this district associate with their homes. Mr. Jones's essay on "The Antiquities and Folk-Lore of Bedd Gelert" shared the prize with that of the late Rev. Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys) at the well-known Eisteddfod of Bedd Gelert in 1860. The serial appearance of that essay brought Mr. Jones a reputation, which he has never lost, as one of the best of our antiquarians and folk-lorists. In 1861 he won the prize at the Conwy National Eisteddfod for an essay on "Conwy and its Neighbourhood"; and in 1862 was adjudged equal with an English writer on "The Geology of Carnarvonshire," and the appearance of that essay in 1863 showed him to be a master of his subject. Though well known as a writer, he is but little known personally, and readers will be glad of the two portraits given of him in this volume. He was born at Bedd Gelert in 1829, and is the eldest son of John Jones, so much associated with Kingsley's visits. In 1841 he was apprenticed to a draper at Carnarvon, from where he went to Llangollen. He was there married, and, not long afterwards, removed to Portmadoc. In the early part of 1862 he returned to Llangollen, where he now lives, a venerable old man of seventy years, suffering from an acute stroke of paralysis.
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