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>The following is from >http://www.caernarfononline.co.uk/civicsociety/page19.h >tml > ><In 1982 the Caernarfon Civic Society furnished on >street frontages a series of circular slate plaques as >memorials to persons and institutions that have >enriched the history of the town. Mrs Ellen Edwards, >the daughter of Captain William Francis of Amlwch who >himself ran a navigation school on Anglesey. Since it >seems that he had no sons, he passed on his craft to >his daughter who set up her own navigation school in >Caernarfon where she trained mariners from the town >and its environs for up to sixty years. She was >helped in later years by her daughter. The infamous >Blue Books (1847) were typically scathing of her >achievements, but her own pupils claimed hers was the >best navigation school in the world. The story of one >of her pupils, Captain Robert Thomas, can be read in >'SHIP MASTERS' by Aled Eames.> > >Regarding the Ellen Edwards School of Seamanship and >Navigation at Caernarfon, North Wales. This >remarkable lady ran the school for years after her >husband died. She prepared Mates and Masters with >great success for examination in Belfast,Liverpool, >London etc. circa 1850. She died aged 90 and her >funeral cortege was followed by hundreds of her old >pupils, Captains and Commanders. > >Any information appreciated; exact location of School, >descendants of her pupils, whereabouts of her >relatives.....copies of paperwork and >photos....anything.
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