David Jones and Ellen Price were married at Tremeirchion on 20th May 1890. David was born in 1863 in Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire and his wife Ellen was born in Tremeirchion in 1860, daughter of Richard Price, a Farmer. They had two children, Elizabeth (Lizzie), born in 1892 in Llansannan and Richard Hugh Price Jones, 1895 in Tremeirchion. David Jones was a farmer at Penucha, Tremeirchion and on the 1911 Census his daughter Lizzie was listed as engaged in dairy work, whilst Richard also worked on the farm. Richard served in the First World War with the Royal Field Artillery.
Ellen Jones died in February 1927; and David died in 1931, leaving Lizzie and Richard at Penucha to continue farming there together.
The family correspondence in this collection gives details of the ups and downs of farming in the late 19th to mid-20th century; and records the sadness of Elizabeth and Richard Price Jones in losing their parents and taking over the farm themselves, through letters from family members and friends.