Back again with more leads … and welcoming of any assistance. Have still not worked out how Ernest William Bartleet (from outside Birminghsm) came to meet Sarah Isobel Elias or why he was living in Trefiw in the few years before. I had previously seen census information of him boarding in Trefiw but have just come across this:
C H E VALE OF CONWAY1!;
….—Sheep dog or bitch. First, St 10,9; second, 15s; third, 10s. "Twenty-one entries. 1, Air John Owen, Hand Inn, Llanrwst; 2, Mrs Owen, Melai, Llanfair 3, Mr E. W. Bartleet, Cwmeigiau, Trefriw; h c. Mr Donald Ross, Moelcadeiriau, Llangerniew. 43.—Retriever dog or bitch. First, 10s; second, 5s. Ten entries. 1, David Davies, Glanafon, Llan- rwst 2, David E. Jones, ironmonger, Watling-street, Llanrwst. 49…
The census record I saw described him as a sheep farmer . Could Cwmeigiau have been the farm?