BODLEY / Tanyfoel

[Emma]

Hi all

I recieved a email with this query, im wondering if any one can help

Thanks

Emma

"Hello - I wonder if you could help me?  I am researching a family of potters from Stoke on Trent their name was BODLEY.  One of the key members of the family has become an enigma to me!  He had left the company and was living (in the 1891 census) at Tanyfoel, Tauralt, Dwygyfylchi. We drove around the by now enormous village with absolutely no success yesterday!!  Since coming home I have found your site and wonder if you can help me.  I see there was a house mentioned on your site with this name and wonder if it could be the same.  The family were wealthy and had three children and a considerable number of staff. So presumably the house would have been faily large.  I can't find the name of the road now.  Please can you help me?  I look forward to hearing from you.  Best Regards  Margaret Crumpton"

[Gwyn]

It's the large building with an entrance opposite Tan y Foel cemetery on Conwy Old Road. It's now called Noddfa and is a catholic retreat. This is the 'about' page of their website:-
http://www.noddfa.org.uk/aboutn.htm

Here's a website with a photo of the building from 1910 and a bit of history:-
http://www.rshm.org/history2/country2/wales.htm

And here's the page from the main Pen website (which I think she has seen already but just in case) that has a bit more history:-
http://www.penmaenmawr.com/historyOldHouses.html

The second part of the address is more likely to be Tanrallt rather than Tauralt. Maybe that was the name of Conwy Old Road in those days as presumably it only became Conwy Old Road when the new road was built in the 1930s - not sure?