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 Louise Burston, a fu’n archwilio hanes ei hen nain, Ann Nora Jenkins O.B.E.  

[stori wedi ei gyfrannu yn Saesneg yn unig]

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Ann Nora Jenkins O.B.E. (Aberdare District)  

My great grandmother, Ann Nora Jenkins O.B.E (b.1863) was instrumental in collecting 10,000 signatures in Aberdare. She also organised a Ladies' Relief Committee and the Women's League of Soldiers' Mothers and Wives, organising a fund that equipped eight cottages at Llwydcoed occupied by Belgian Refugees. Other war activities included membership of the local War Pensions Committee and the presidency of the Women's Section of the British Legion.

My great grandmother was born in Hirwaun and lived at Station Place, Trecynon, as her husband William Jenkins was the station master for Trecynon for 50 years.

She was Councillor of Aberdare Town Ward from 1915 to 1933 (elections were suspended from 1915-19 due to WW1).