Welsh Connection

The Wern is a tiny bit of North Wales near MINERA just west of WREXHAM, very close to the town of Coedpoeth. For a couple of years during the period 1955 to 1960, we went to the Wern for a week's holiday, usually in a little cottage that you could not swing a cat in. Wern Row was one such place, still standing but only just. The other place we stayed at was possibly the Crown Inn.
I would be 10 years old then, and it never occurred to me why we went there, in particular.
It was only when looking into the Winters family that it came clear that we had connections with the Wern at a much earlier period.
My mother Muriel's great grandmother, Sarah Evans lived at the Wern Chapel House during the 1880's. In 1881 Sarah Evans was living at the Chapel house with Hannah and Thomas Roberts but I have no idea what became of Sarah and the Roberts family. We also had a 'relative', Aunt Martha, who lived in Minera, a 20 minute walk away.
I have yet to find out who Martha really was! Although all the Winters family knew her, I don't know what relationship she was to us!

I know she was married to Albert Richards, a coal miner, and they lived at Pistyll Cottages near Pen Y Bont farm, but these cottages are long gone.
So no one knows the answers to the puzzles that are left me!

Who were we renting the cottage from?
What was Martha Richards's relationship to us?

Things are changing fast at the Wern, buildings are disappearing, but the Lead Mine at Minera is now a focal point and a good place for walking!

Did anyone else have holidays here? Would love to hear from you if you did!