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This is my Grandmother Barbara Stewart in the

early 1900's. I was named after her and her

best friend Inez. She died when my mom was

13 years old

I have been into my genealogy for the last 10 or more years and have

traced my family as far back as 1600. I am fascinated by the  history. 

Genealogy is very time consuming and I have not done it for awhile but

am now starting again. I have a family tree on Ancestry.com.

The names on my tree are:
Wynn (Wynne), Wilshire (Wiltshire), Stewart, Carter, Gibson, Bates,

Genung (Geunon), Darrow, Harlan, Webster, Edes, Pancost

(formally Panckhurst then Pancoast ), Parmly, Cook, Shinn, Hugg,

Scattergood, Belknap, Hedges, Denman, Jans,  Sneden, Palmer, Hill.
These names are all blood related in some way, most are parents,

grandparents, great, g-great, ggg, gggg, ggggg, etc...
I have gone back as far as ggggggggg grandparents when I stopped.
There is a Castle in Whales that I can stay at for free because of my

Wynn name. I did not believe it at first but just a couple of years ago

my Aunt went there and stayed for free. Maybe one day...
I am passing all my findings on to my children and I hope that they do

the same.

 Aunt Faye and Theresa, (Richard, if I am wrong about any names please let me know and I will fix it).

Mom (Madeline),Cousins- Earline, Sydney, Richard, Theresa, and Uncle David Wilshire. Easter 1957

 Great Grandma Wilshire holding a picture of my mother

A few Stewart and Wilshire cousins together.
Mom is in the back in the black dress.
Me and Shiela are in the front with matching dresses

(red socks). Cousin Joey is next to me and my brother

Mark is next to him in tan.
Lori, Randy, Julie and Marty are the Stewart girls,

Uncle David is in the suit on the right.

Grandpa Joe Wilshire & Grandma Barbara with

my mom and Uncle David

This is the Stewart Hotel in San Bernardino, CA. It burned down

in the early 1900's. This Hotel was built by my great-great grandfather.

This post card is postmarked Jan 27, 1911

This is my Grandma Barbara,

my Grandpa Joe Wilshire,

Uncle David and my mom Madeline

My mom and Uncle David, sometime in the 40's.

My mom's legs are bandaged because she fell

into a pit of hot ashes. My grandmother mad most

of their cloths.

This is my dad, my brother Mark and me at my Grandpa Joe Wilshire's

for Christmas. I remember this day which is rare, I remember getting

the See & Say and I remember my brother's truck that we made all

kinds of obstacle's for it to climb.

In 1871, Old Joe Wilshire bought 640 acres of Oak Glen, California farmland

for a saddle, a jug of whiskey, and a chicken.
here are a few web links for the family to check out. some may know about them,

others may find this interesting.
this website has bites and pieces of my family history in Oak Glen.
http://losriosrancho.com/index.html

http://www.press-enterprise.com/newsin2/newsin/tomorrow/906758943.html
this website has bites and pieces of my family history in Oak Glen. This is where

we had most of my family reunions. At the Old School House

Wilshire family reunion in Oak Glen at the

Old School House, around 1973 or 74.
Grandpa Joe, Grandma Ruth, Mom, Dad
Paul, Me, Shiela and Mark

Another Wilshire reunion at the Old School House in Oak Glen, CA.

My little sister Patti is standing with Smoky the Bear along with my

cousin Mary Beth Wilshire. Cousin Kenny is behind him, Chad Wilshire

is standing in front and Chad's brother Ricky is the boy cut in half at

the edge of picture. Me and my sister Shiela are standing in the far back

Christmas or Easter. My Grandpa Joe Wilshire

and Grandma Ruth (my moms stepmom and the

only grandmother I knew)
My mom is in the mirror. I think this was 1969

My mom Madeline Wilshire, just a few years before I was born,

this was taken in 1961.

My family in Texas, left to right, back; my dad

James Wynn, Aunt LaRuth Self, Uncle Tom Odell

(my aunt's husband), Aunt Janice Odell,

Aunt Karen Wynn (my uncle's wife),

Uncle Bobby Wynn, front; Grandpa

Oscar J Wynn (Jack), and Grandma

Thelma Louise Wynn

1972 at the Ranch in Texas. All the Wynn cousins. This picture was

taken just before all us kids went to the big pond to catch turtles.
Front row: Mark Odell, Paul, Shiela, Vicky  Odell
Middle: Lloyd Self, Mark,  Brenda Self, me
Back: Donald Self

Gwydir Castle is situated in the beautiful Vale of Conwy in the foothills of Snowdonia.

Regarded as one of the finest Tudor houses in Wales, the castle was the ancestral home

of the powerful Wynn baronets, descended from the Kings and Princes of Gwynedd

and one of the most significant families in Wales during the Tudor and Stuart periods.

The first castle was built by Howell Coetmore, who fought under the Black Prince

as commander of longbowmen at the battle of Poitiers in 1356. Following the

Wars of the Roses

the castle was rebuilt in around 1490 by Meredith, founder of the Wynn dynasty

and a leading

supporter of King Henry VII. Originally a fortified house, Gwydir acquired additions

in the 1540's

(incorporating reused gothic building material from nearby Maenan Abbey),

and was given a fine Elizabethan

porch and gardens in the 1590's. Further additions were made in 1828 to designs

by Sir Charles Barry,

architect of the Houses of Parliament.In the 1570's Gwydir was the home of Katherine

of Berain,

cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and the castle has associations with the Babington

Plot (1586) and the

Gunpowder Plot (1605). Other historical figures linked with the castle include

Lord Leicester

(Queen Elizabeth's favourite) Inigo Jones, 'the Father of English Palladianism',

Bishop Morgan,

translator of the first Welsh Bible and Archbishop John Williams, Lord Keeper

under Charles I.

There is a long tradition of entertaining royalty at Gwydir. King Charles I is said

to have visited

in September 1645 as guest of Sir Richard Wynn, Treasurer to

Queen Henrietta-Maria and

Chief Groom of the Royal Bedchamber. In 1899 King George V and

Queen Mary stayed here

as Duke and Duchess of York. More recently, in July 1998, HRH The Prince of Wales

opened the newly reinstated 1640's Dining Room, the fine panelling and carving

of which was

dramatically recovered from the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1996.

Famous for its peacocks,

the castle is also known for its many ghosts and has the reputation for being

one of the most haunted houses in Wales.

here are some website links on some of my ancestry on my

fathers side (WYNNS). I found most of this 

 information in a book that my father has had for years

http://www.coroinn.com/Queenie's%20Tale.htm

 http://www.coroinn.com/owen_gwynedd.htm

http://www.coroinn.com/WynneDiaries.htm

http://www.coroinn.com/RobertWynneCanterbury.htm

http://www.coroinn.com/wynnerefernces.htm

http://www.coroinn.com/Owen%20Gwynedd%20and%20the%20Plantagenent's.htm

http://www.coroinn.com/WynneChartVAPAMAUK.htm

http://www.gwydircastle.co.uk/

http://www.gwydircastle.co.uk/photos/sirjohnwynn.jpg

The Ghosts

Sir John Wynn, first Baronet

In common with many buildings which have enjoyed such a rich history,

Gwydir has acquired a reputation for being one of Wales' most haunted houses.

However, lest the sceptical be inclined to dismiss this page and move on,

it should be pointed out that stories relating to Gwydir's various ghosts were

recorded already in the nineteenth century and are therefore not, as is so often the case,

of recent fabrication. In fact many people (friends and visitors alike) continue to feel,

see and even smell a range of paranormal things here, which are always uncannily

consistent in terms of location and recorded experiences.

Perhaps the most significant, and most certainly most widely reported, of the ghosts

is that of a young woman who haunts the north wing and the panelled corridor between the

Hall of Meredith and the Great Chamber. In the nineteenth century the room behind the

panelling was called the 'Ghost Room'. A white or grey woman was said to have been

frequently seen in the room and the adjoining passageway, accompanied by a foul smell

of putrefaction. Whilst the apparition has not specifically been seen in recent years,

its presence continues to be felt and some have claimed to have been touched on the

shoulder whilst at the same time experiencing a considerable drop in temperature.

In addition, the extraordinary smell associated with the sightings continues to be experienced,

always in the same part of the passageway.

Whilst we are not certain of the ghost's identity, an account published in 1906 provides

a vivid (and rather horrific) explanation for the sightings and their associated smell.

Apparently Sir John Wynn (either the first or fifth baronet - this remains unclear)

seduced a serving maid at Gwydir in his youth. When the relationship became…complicated,

the unscrupulous Sir John murdered the girl and had her body walled-up within a large void

in one of the chimney breasts. The smell of the decomposing body, it is said, lingered for

months as an unfortunate reminder of his former amour. Significantly, a hollowed-out space

was found earlier this century within the large chimney breast which backs onto the Ghost Room

at the hall end of the passage. This, long called the 'priest hole', is where the body was said to

have been secreted; and it is in this area that the smell is always at its strongest.

The fifth baronet is said to have made a deathbed confession to a murder committed at Gwydir

during his youth in the mid seventeenth century. But the first baronet (1553-1627) is an equally

likely candidate for the girl's murder. His (much-exaggerated) reputation as a local tyrant was

established already in folklore when Thomas Pennant, the antiquary, visited the area in the 1770's.

He recounts a tradition (which continues to this day) that the spirit of the old baronet remains

trapped beneath the waterfall near Betws-y-Coed called the Swallow Falls, 'forever to be purged,

purified and spat upon (by the waters) for the evil deeds committed by him in his days of nature'.

Sir John himself ranks amongst the many other reported ghosts. He has been sighted on a

number of occasions on the spiral staircase leading from the Solar Hall to the Great Chamber;

his portrait hangs in the Lower Hall. A detailed account of all the other sightings would prove exhaustive,

but amongst them children have been heard crying, a Ghost Dog has frequently been seen (incredibly,

its bones were unearthed in the cellar in 1995), and a procession has been seen at night on the Great Terrace,

near Sir John's arch.

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