Tag: Cardiganshire History
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A Log Cabin Mystery
It all began with a single photograph. Two of my ancestors standing proudly outside their log cabin home. Logs and sticks woven together to create a warm cradle where they would raise their children… presumably. Did they have children? It was a mystery. See, this heavily deteriorated photograph was the only trace of these ancestors…
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No Place Like Home
Twenty years is a long time to be away from home. For Timothy, the passage of twenty years looked like an entirely new life. Gentle, grassy slopes replaced with coal pits and billowing black smoke. A loving family left behind and new family—a wife and four kids—gathered along the way. In the town of Oldbury,…
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Cellan’s Lending Library: Education in a Small Welsh Place
It was a day like any other in the Welsh parish of Cellan, September 25th, 1765, when a small iron chest arrived at the doors of All Saints’ Anglican Church. A special delivery, the first of its kind, for the Rev. Williams. Heavy, despite its size, the chest was lugged onto a sturdy wooden pew…
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Rev. Timothy Davies of Caeronen, Cellan (1711–1771)
Rev. Timothy Davies was born around 1711 in the parish of Cellan.[1] He was the son of David Evan of Bailiau, Cellan, and his second wife, Sarah Jones,[2] daughter of Rev. John Jones of Llwynrhys.[3] The earliest surviving record of Rev. Davies is the will of his father, which was written in 1715. His father…