Administrative/Biographical history: Dunphy and Sons was a company owning grocery shops, bakeries and wine and spirit retails in Llandudno , Craig y Don, Conwy, Deganwy and Penmaenmawr (Caernarfonshire). The company was formed by Mrs Dunphy, who was succeeded in 1857 by her son, Stephen Dunphy, grocer, from Temple House, Mostyn Street, Llandudno. His wife was Catherine, nee Phillys, of Penrhyn Old Hall. They had four sons, Bernard, Richard, Arthur, and Jack. Bernard Dunphy joined the navy, serving on the HMS Conway 1897-1899, and died in 1915, on the auxiliary cruiser, Bayano. Richard and Arthur went into the grocery trade with their father. Jack became a vet and also fought in the Boer War in South Africa. Norah Dunphy, daughter of Richard Dunphy, worked for Tynemouth and North Shields Corporation as an architect. The business closed in 1972.