After many years' searching, I have finally tied the recurring "Aubrey" middle name in my "Williams" family back to an Aubrey family. I am now trying to tie these Aubrey's to the wider Aubrey families, but there appears to be no Aubrey family indigenous to Anglesey prior to ~1770. There are some IGI entries that I know to be fictitious - I spent a week at the Llangefni record office chasing them down in the registers.

So I’m looking for two things:
The direct connection between Ellin and the other Aubreys in Llanerchymedd, and the connection between the isolated Aubreys of Llanerchymedd and the rest of the mainland - most of who are in Merionithshire, Radnorshire, and Breconshire.

If you read this and find anything that connects somewhere to Aubrey’s elsewhere on Anglesey or on the mainland, please do post-back.

This is my connection:
Lewis Williams, Tailor of Amlwch (Llanenellwyfo, aka Llanenellwyfdd, according to Amlwch marriage register) in north Anglesey. He married Ellin Aubrey on 12th Aug. 1788. See attachment.

Lewis & Ellin's children:
- Eldest (surviving) son was Richard Aubrey (Auobrey) Williams, bap. 1803 d.25th Aug. 1880. He married Ellinor Williams of Llanedwan. Richard and Ellinor's only son was Owen Hugh Williams, interred with his parents in the Llanedwan churchyard adjacent to the Plas Newydd estate of the Marquis of Anglesey. The 4th/5th Marquis' graves are two or three plots over.

- Daughter Ellen bap. 7th March 1807.

- My line is descended of Lewis & Ellin's youngest son, Owen Williams, born 20th Apr 1810 d.21st Jul 1868. Married first Elizabeth Pritchard 10th Oct 1834, who died in Liverpool 28th Feb. 1845 they had no surviving children. They had moved to Liverpool by ~1837 because he is listed a Burgess in 1841 and you had to have been a Freeman of the town for 3-years before becoming a Burgess. Owen is buried in Liverpool’s Anfield Cemetery with his 2nd wife Ellen (nee Woodward) and one of their daughters, Catherine.

Points to note:
The Amlwch marriage register says Lewis’ wife, Ellin Aubrey, was "of this parish" (Amlwch), but the only Aubreys recorded for Bap./Burial in the area are in the nearby parish of Llanerchymedd, where their graves are still found today.

The first record of an Aubrey I can find on Anglesey is in fact this marriage to Lewis Williams by Ellin Aubrey in 1788.

The next ‘record’ is inferred from the 1861 census, listing William Aubrey born in Llanerchymedd ~abt.1792. There is a William Aubrey buried in Llanerchymedd Jan. 16th 1867 aged 77yrs which might be him. However, there is no baptism record for him in the Llanerchymedd or neighboring parish registers.

There is also an entry in the Llanerchymedd burial register on 9th Feb. 1794 for Owen Aubrey.

Other Aubrey records:
Ref. WPE/34/15 : 17th Nov. 1807, Richard Aubrey marr. Catherine Thomas, both of Amlwch.

In 1810 William Aubrey is granted a license to keep an inn (ref. WQS/1810/M/63), and in 1818 he passes the license to David Burgess (ref. WQS/1818/201).

WPE/34/17 - Page 296 No.886.
19th May 1837, David Owen m. Anne Aubrey of Amlwch. Witness John Williams and David Aubrey.
I have a bunch of Aubrey headstones to transcribe, which I’ll post shortly.

--Richard