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John Ystumllyn: an African in 18th century Eifionydd

August 27, 2017 22 Comments
John Ystumllyn: an African in 18th century Eifionydd

  It wasn’t his real name, ‘John Ystumllyn’, but one the locals gave him. Another was ‘Jac Du’ or ‘Jack Black’. How he arrived, unwillingly, in north Wales is obscure. What is certain is that his origins were in Africa, and that he found a home for himself and his family in the Criccieth area […]

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