At the end of last year the Gwynedd Family History Society had an article in their magazine about a survey that had been done of Glanadda Cemetery in Bangor. This had details of some of the more interesting headstones but did not have the full story so I looked into a few more closely. I was asked to write up for the magazine so went through the rest.

There is one of a man missing on Carnedd Llewelyn early in January 1865 and found the following month buried in a snowdrift. It turns out that three men left Bethesda to travel to Cwm Eigiau but seemed to have had drinks in a number of pubs as well as some houses before leaving. The weather was terrible with strong winds and torrential rain. They seem to have been split up on the journey so one man arrived at Cwm Eigiau alone, he presumed the others must have turned back. The weather was still bad the following day (Tuesday I think) so thought they had waited in Bethesda. Wednesday was a fine day but they did not turn up so he wrote to his mother on Thursday, that letter never reached her so he wrote again at the end of the week. Search parties went out but there was heavy snow and it was not thought it would cleared for a couple of months. Quarrymen continued to do searches and found one body late in February. The other man was not found until April, frozen solid in the snow.

I was just looking at the map, quite incredible the distances and routes that quarrymen were presumably routinely walking to reach these remote quarries!

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