Wrth i gymunedau a gwirfoddolwyr trawsysgrifio’r 390,296 o lofnodion yn Neiseb Heddwch Menywod Cymru 1923 i America, mae llawer wedi bod yn cofio ac yn rhannu’r straeon y tu ôl i enwau’r genhedlaeth hon o fenywod gwnaeth hawlio heddwch. Pwy oedden nhw – a pha neges gallai fod ganddyn nhw i ni 100 mlynedd yn ddiweddarach.

Roedd prosiect ‘Hidden Histories’ dan arweiniad WCIA yn gwahodd pobl ledled Cymru i ddatgelu a rhannu ‘straeon heddwch’ y tu ôl i’r 390,296 o fenywod a lofnododd y Ddeiseb Heddwch – nid dim ond ‘y gwych a’r da’, ond y miloedd o fenywod cyffredin ledled Cymru llofnododd yn sgil y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf er mwyn hawlio heddwch.

Cyfrannwyd y stori hon a deunydd ategol gan Enid Lewis, a fu’n archwilio hanes Miss Olive Jones a'i chwaer Miss Alice Jones.

[stori wedi ei gyfrannu yn Saesneg yn unig]

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Miss Olive Jones and her sister Miss Alice Jones were former teachers who lived together in a house called "Sunnyside" on the corner of Alban Square, next to Barclays Bank.  

Olive was 40 in 1923 living in 21 Alban Square and a certificated mistress at Aberayron Council School, her sister was a head teacher in Wrexham.  

Also known as "Black and White" because Alice's hair was jet black, Olive's was snow white. Even though they could appear stern, I found them both very nice ladies.  

Three things I remember about them:  

1. When the cobbled pavements of Aberaeron were being paved over they objected, and these formidable sisters got their way! The cobbled pavement is still there today.

2. Alice (Alicia Gower Jones) was considered a great beauty in her day and the famous artist Augustus John (sometime friend of Dylan Thomas) came to Aberaeron to paint her portrait (I think).

3. They were "fyddlon" to Tabernacl chapel- Olive took a Sunday school class, Alice had wonderful "Sunday best" including a variety of hats, some broad-brimmed. We had a family pew behind them in the chapel- they wore "stoles" (fox furs) around their necks with the fox head at the back of the neck. As a child I can remember those fox heads staring down at me!