1941 - 1942 George & Anita Tregarneth

Known

  • Anita Tregarneth was recorded on the land tax assessment in 1941

  • Anita was an artist and writer

  • the 1936 Catalogue of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art lists a work of Anita’s titled ‘Penmon Priory’ This is listed in the Index to Exhibitors as: Tregarneth, Mrs. Anita, Plas Meigan, Beaumaris, Anglesey. In the 1935 catalogue she was listed showing a work titled ‘The Ruined Cottage’ At this time she was listed as living in 35 Dover Street , London

  • ‘George Tregarneth of Voelvanna, Church Bay, Rhydwyn, Holyhead, Anglesey’ was listed as the Sheriff of Anglesey in 1948


Questions

  • Were the Tregarneth’s owers or tenants? (According to the National Archives, in some parishes, some tenants may have paid the land tax and claimed the money back from their landlords in the form of a rebate.)

  • Who painted the water colours of Bodfa? One of Anita’s friends? Where did the Asian influence originate from?


Anita Tregarneth’s paintings

Anita Tregarneth, watercolour, hilly village lane with various cottages (faded), gilt framed, signed,
10 x 14 inches

Anita Tregarneth, ink and watercolour ‘A View of the Farm’


Anita Tregarneth’s books


Watercolour paintings of the North Garden and Plas Bodfa porch.
Dated 1941
Artist unknown - Rasloy? Rado? Raowy? Raslo?

Land Tax records, 1942

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