BRECHFA
VILLAGE
ROOTS
- Brechfa
Back in Time
Information
on people who
had connections with Brechfa and the surrounding area and links
to Websites with references to those people. Intended to be of
benefit to anyone interested in old Friends or Family
Genealogy.
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Information below provided by Joan Rees in January 2008
Photographs. From let to
right. (1) Taylor's shop and Post Office
showing David John Rees with his 3 children,
Howell, Betty and
Elaine.
David
John Rees was a tailor born in
Brechfa in 1887. His father was David Rees, also
born in
Brechfa and a tailor. Their shop is still in the village, now a
private house. The name "D J Rees and Son" is still
above
the old shop window.
(2)
The Taylors Shop and Post
Office 2007. The Brechfa Post Office has had many homes and at
this time was in the same house as the tailors. The postmistress
was Kitty Howells, David John's
sister in law.
David
John Rees was a deacon for many
years at Bethania chapel, which was sadly closed in 2007. He is
buried in the churchyard
there. Tools
and equipment from D. J. Rees
tailors shop are housed in the Museum of Welsh
Life.
Information
below provided
by
Hywel
Griffiths
December 2007
and
Keith
Walters January/May
2008
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8Photographs.
From let to right.
(1) Daniel Evans and
(2) his wife Elizabeth Evans.
(3) The lady at the Post
Office
on her own is
their daughter and sister of Charles Lewis Evans
who built
Glen
View.
Charles
Lewis
Evans
sisterwas
a friend of Dylan Thomas's mother.
(4) People in the Post Office not known.
(5) Welsh ladies in
Brechfa. Lady far right is Dylan Thomas's mother.
Her
family had farms in Abergwilli and Brechfa according to the Dylan
Thomas center in Swansea. The lady next to her at the table is a
sister of Charles Lewis Evans. He was a brother in
law to
my (Keith Walters) grandmother. He married Lizzie
Maria
Arthur. A relation of theirs is Joan Jones
who lived
in Brechfa in what I think are old age bungalows, number 6 as you
go down a hill to them. It is the one on the end, far left.
(6)
Charles Lewis Evans and Lizzie Maria
Evans
(Arthur) on their wedding day 08th of March 1894.
(7) Lizzie Maria Evans (Arthur)
with grandsons Meirion & Glyn Roberts, sons
of Sybil Maud Roberts (Evans). Glyn
was born 1930, Meirion a bit older but by the looks
not a lot. They are seated outside Glen View, next door to the Brechfa
church.
Glen View was a shop 1935 / 1939.
(8) A
very young Dewi Thomas, Bryn Stores.
Information
above and photograph 1 to 7 provided by Mr Keith Walters.
Keith has
also provide
Certificates for the Marriages of James Saunders to
Mary
Arthur in 1881, Charles Lewis
Evans to
Lizzie Maria Arthur in 1894, Rees Walters to
Margaretta
Arthur in 1904 and the Death Certificate of Lizzie Maria Evans
in
1948.
In
a communication from Mr
Hywel Griffiths details were given on
the Brechfa
connection of three sides of his family, Evans,
Thomas and Morris. Select this link for more
information
from
Keith Walters
and Hywel
Griffiths.
Further information on
some of the above may be found
below
Family Names
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Ieuan Brechfa Poet and
genealogist - [c. 1430-1500], a
native of Brechfa.
Thomas
Daniels Farmer, married
Jeannette Thomas - Born 1831
in Brechfa. Died August 1909 in Idaho.
Berwyn
Davies Passed
away on June 27 2005. Born in Brechfa in 1936, Mr Davies was the eldest
son of the late Mr and Mrs Tom and Glenys Davies.
Joshua Davies One
time rector of St Teilo Church
Brechfa was fond of football, once played in a field by the
church. On one occasion he agreed to take the place of a missing
team member at an important match. He was also fond of the
occasional beer, on which subject he is quoted as saying, "Don't
do as I do, do as I
say".
Mary Davies Message Boards - Wife of
David Davies of
Llanllawddog.
Rhys John Davies Politician and
trade union official -
(1877 - 1954) son of Rhys Davies, tinplate worker, a native of
Abergorlech, and Ann (née Griffiths), his wife, who came
from Brechfa.
Daniel
Davis Born 16 September 1793 --
Llystyn, Llanfigangel, Rhos-Corn. Married Sarah Thomas.
Evan Donard Evans (1796-1877), Father of
Alcwyn Caryni
Evans- Father of Alcwyn
Caryni Evans. He acquired more than a
strictly local fame as a schoolmaster and was widely known as
Evans of York.
Jeremy and Evans Ancestors of Reed Berg
HASLAM -
Family Group Sheet.
John and Hetty Evans Family
Group Record - Children of
John Evans and Margaret Jones.
Thomas
Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - Unitarian
and General
Baptist - Born at Capel St Silin, Brechfa, on the banks of the
river Cothi which gave him his bardic name.
William Evans and Maria Morris
Carmarthenshire Archives - Births of William Evans &
Maria Morris 1803
& 1807.
Elizabeth Lloyd
nee
Evans. Died, Salt Lake City, 06 Aug 1882, Wife
of Wm. J
LLOYD and daughter of John & Elizabeth EVANS, born Brechfa,
Carmarthen, Wales, 25 Mar 1829.
Evan
Powell James Liverpool Missing
Persons 1899 - Native
of Brechfa.
Reverend
William Jenkins Jenkins
Genealogy - Licensed to
Brechfa 26th March 1787.
Thomas Jenkins Clerk
&
Poet 1774-1843 - Son of Revd. William Jenkins. His Family and
Connections.
Thomas
Evans Jeremy Birthplace: Cerbynau,
Brechfa -
Thomas Evans Jeremy moved from Llystyn, Brechfa to Glantrenfawr,
Llanybydder during the 1850s before setting off to America. In
2004 80 Mormons came to Llanybydder and unveiled a plaque to
their memory. Glantrenfawr was built by Rhys ap Dafydd ap Tomos,
patron to Lewis Glyn
Cothi.
Biography LDS
Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol.
2, pp.651-653.
Jeremy
Families Carmarthen and Beyond by Sian Jones.
Extract
from Thomas
Evans Jeremy Journal January 15th and 18th 1855.
Dai Jones
"Dai
Coch" Aged
six came to Cenarth Farm, Brechfa. Past away on 7th of February
2007, aged 73
Richard
Morris
Lewis Scholar and
littérateur - (1847-1918), b.
1847 at Forest Arms, Brechfa, Carms., son of John and Leisa
Lewis. He became principal clerk in H.M. Inland Revenue offices,
Swansea. Translations by him appear in Welsh hymnaries; he also
made metrical renderings in Welsh of passages from Homer's Iliad.
Perhaps his most important contribution is his translation of
Gray's Elegy. He died 20 Sept.1918 and was buried in Brechfa
churchyard. Some of his MSS. are in the N.L.W. (N.L.W. MSS.
2249-50).
Thomas Charles Martell During
conference and on the
day of April 1875, I was in company with Elders W.J. Lewis of
Provo City, and Thomas D. Evans of Spanish Fork City called to go
on a mission to Wales
Evan
and Anne Morgan Buried at
Brechfa church -
Morgan/Morgans family Brechfa.
Teulu (Family History) Evan Morgan.
Annie
Price The Reverend William Nantlais
Williams Married
the daughter of T. Price, minister of Brechfa.
Further reference
Dalton and Prytherch
In 1795 Daniel Prytherch married Margaret Dalton. Daniel was
descended from Rhys of Llandovery, who died in 1699. Margaret
descended from James Dalton who died in the 1720s. Daniel Prytherch
died in 1809, his wife Margaret survived him by ten years although in
poor health. They lived at Abergoleu, a house between Brechfa and Horeb
on which a slate plaque can still be seen reading, 'This House was
Erected by Daniel Prytherch Gent in the Year of our Lord 1774'. A plaque in Brechfa
Church commemorates their lives.
Margaret's
brother James was the husband of Catherina Augusta who died in
1813. James returned to Carmarthen with their children where he
died in 1823. His daughter, Caroline Catherine Dalton married her
cousin Daniel Prytherch of Abergolau. He became Mayor of
Carmarthen and Deputy Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire. They had 13
children, who had the name Dalton as a Christian name.
William Eliezer Prytherch Calvinistic
Methodist
minister - 1846 - 1931 Oct. 1868 he took charge of the churches
at Brechfa and Pont-ynys-wen.
Benjamin
Thomas Married Lettice Davies on 3
Dec 1847. Also married Susan Roberts on 8 Mar 1857.
William
Thomas Gwilym Marles was his bardic
name - Dylan
Thomas literary ancestor, namesake and great uncle. He was named
after the Marlais river near his birthplace at Brechfa. A
Unitarian chapel was established at Llwyn Rhydowen, north of
Llandysuls in 1733. He was the minister from 1860. At the old
Unitarian chapel of Llwyn Rhydowain, dating from 1834, a memorial
stone to Gwilym Marles wife and youngest child rests against the
chapel wall. A memorial cross commemorating the Rev.William
Thomas lies in front of the new chapel.
Further reference Dylan
Thomas:
Chronology Under
Milk Wood
- Script and narration by Richard Burton.
Lloyd
and Bess Williams Chapel couple's 76
years together -
Couple from west Wales who married as teenagers.
Hugh
Williams A Brief Biography -
Chartist and Alleged
Leader of the Rebecca Riots of 1843 in South West Wales.
William Nugent Williams Prominent Elder
of the
Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah - Born March 17, 1851,
near Brechfa, Carmarthenshire.
Clarissa
Williams President Heber J.
Grant called Clarissa to
serve as the sixth president of the Relief Society in April
1921.
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Brechfa WW1
Heroes
Name
Rank
Regiment
Cemetery
From
Davies, Evan Henry
Trooper Australian
Infantry-12th Light
Horse Cairo War Memorial
Egypt Brechfa
No:1766 - Rank: Private - Age: 25 - Enlisted 10-1-1916 -
Occupation: Labourer - Died of malaria 12-1-1919 - Home: Sydney
NSW
James Thomas,
Gunner, 218777, Royal Garrison Artillery. James was born at
Llanfihangel, the Son of Henry Thomas, of Lan Meredith, Brechfa. James
enlisted at Carmarthen into the Royal Garrison Artillery, and was
attached to their No. 1 Depot, on Home Service. James died of sickness
on the 28th June, 1916 aged just 19, and is buried at Gwernogle
Congregational Burial Ground. There is an error on the war memorial, as
the date there shows 1918. From
The Carmarthenshire Roll of Honour - Pencader
War Memorial