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Rees several times rallied William on a Dolgellau family of 'very fine girls, at least. Miss Ann and Catherine'. It is a Williams family he mentions, and by 29 August 1837 he was asking 'When are you going to get married?' 'Do not bury in oblivion entirely the old word "Quod valet pecunia"' in choosing a wife, Rees had tentatively advised his younger brother earlier. The latter was mature enough not to 'like a boy in his teens exclaim "Quod amor vincit omnia" (Rees seems to have followed his own advice!) Wooding tells us that it was a Miss Griffiths, a solicitor's daughter, whom William eventually married. About 1838 he was appointed Auditor of Poor Rate Assessment for the Union of Rhaeadr, at £ 300 a year. He and his wife, says the family story, had seven seafaring sons, one of whom, a six-footer, went to Australia. William died at Machynlleth on Sunday 13 April 1870. Caroline (1810-1843) David Jones's posthumous daughter, baptised on 29 April 1810, was much- married and short-lived. She first married a local farmer, Rhys Williams of Garthbowen, Llanwrtyd, and by him had her only child, Letitia. After his death she married James Stanton of Builth. In May 1836 a letter from Rees Jones to his brother William shows her in Brecon. James Stanton was dead-unlamented, judging by Rees's remarks. 'They are a bad set', he writes of the Stantons; Vaughan, the solicitor, was 'tooling' them, and Caroline hoped 'to get about £ 50 or £ 60'. From her mother's Brecon house, Caroline kept up a correspondence with various members of the family. A letter to William survives, written in March 1837; she thanks him for a draft on Mr Price the Banker, which she will use only if it proves strictly necessary She begs him to visit them in the spring- You shall see, William, how comfortable we shall make you'. 'Little Lettice' is writing to William; she is jealously unwilling for her uncle to marry-or so says Caroline! Rees spoils Lettice, and 'Mama' is 'quite foolish about her'. By the end of that August Caroline was still at their mother's with her 'young one', and had fallen out with Rees (no new thing, one gathered!) Caroline married thirdly James Edwards, a builder, of Brecon. On 21 October 1843 she was buried at St John's Priory church aged only 33, her Brecon home being given as in Old Port Inferior ward. Wooding said that after Caroline's death young Lettice went to London, where she eventually married Robert Evans, a ship's engineer; she died at Portsmouth, about 1861, leaving a son Robert Rees Evans, and the daughter whose birth killed her. Peter (1792-1872) Family records say that Peter, the eldest son of David Jones of Llwynderw, was the tallest of the family at five feet ten inches. Long-legged and short-bodied, he was very strong. He looked like his mother, partly, perhaps, in plumpness, for he