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Title: What is the surname
Post by: roycymru on Saturday 30 January 21 20:31 GMT (UK)
Hi

What are the best guesses for the surname of Mary Davies’s (widow) father Thomas (and therefore her maiden name) in the attached. Thank you
Title: Re: What is the surname
Post by: Mabel Bagshawe on Saturday 30 January 21 20:43 GMT (UK)
Fairly sure it's Manuel

Title: Re: What is the surname
Post by: Mabel Bagshawe on Saturday 30 January 21 20:50 GMT (UK)
It's been transcribed as Manuel by Ancestry as well

Title: Re: What is the surname
Post by: roycymru on Saturday 30 January 21 22:28 GMT (UK)
Thanks. Follow on Query. Mary was born about 1807, Llanelly. Her first husband was Thomas Davies born about 1811, Llanelly. Their first child was born about 1829, so therefore the marriage would have been around 1828 Carmarthenshire. However I can’t find a marriage between Thomas Davies and Mary Manuel in the Carmarthenshire parish records?
Title: Re: What is the surname
Post by: roycymru on Saturday 30 January 21 22:59 GMT (UK)
Think I may have found it. Llangendeirne 06 April 1827, Thomas Davies and Mary Emanuel
Title: Re: What is the surname
Post by: emlyn on Monday 08 February 21 16:06 GMT (UK)
Perhaps it’s not the surname but describes the occupation manual labourer with the word manual inserted in the wrong box.
Title: Re: What is the surname
Post by: Mabel Bagshawe on Monday 08 February 21 19:40 GMT (UK)
I'm in South Wales and know a few people with the surname Manuel - it's why I recognised it straight off. It may well of course be a variant of Emanuel
Title: Re: What is the surname
Post by: ehedydd on Sunday 07 March 21 17:45 GMT (UK)
Still some Emanuels living in Five Roads and descended from Graig Farm.
Title: Re: What is the surname
Post by: roycymru on Sunday 07 March 21 18:16 GMT (UK)
Quote from: ehedydd on Sunday 07 March 21 17:45 GMT (UK)
Still some Emanuels living in Five Roads and descended from Graig Farm.

Thanks for the confirmation