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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Glamorganshire => Topic started by: llangatwg on Tuesday 11 May 21 15:59 BST (UK)
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If ones death is recorded at st Thomas church neath. Could someone tell me where they may be buried please. Thank you
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It says the church has a graveyard.
https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/404836/ (https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/404836/)
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Yes it has but it is very small. I wondered if burial would be catwg church cadoxton or at illtyds old cemetery
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This site states that the graveyard was full by 1850 :-\ http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~waggy/history/Neath.htm
Kay
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Might be worth trying Llantwit Cemetery which I think is run by Neath Port Talbot Council...
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The council run Llantwit cemetery is on the opposite side of the road to the older Church cemetery on Neath Rd. The council would only have details of burials in its cemetery (i'e. not the Church section). I can tell you that having visited the Vicar a number of years ago to see the Church burial registers (weren't on line then), there is no cemetery plan and so looking for a grave is pot luck, especially in the older overgrown part.
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Brian Wagstaff has put online records of the new part of llantwit cemetery you could check that, there are a couple of hundred names on there. Good luck
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There is a plaque in St Thomas’s to Rice Davies (1742-1818), a son Of Neath and grandfather to Rhys Davies Powell who built Craig y Nos. He was a surgeon and magistrate in London for most of his life. Is anything known about his family origins?
Thanks
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If ones death is recorded at st Thomas church neath. Could someone tell me where they may be buried please. Thank you
Hi I have relatives buried at St Thomas' in 1881 and 1893. I just wondered if you got an answer to your query?
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If ones death is recorded at st Thomas church neath. Could someone tell me where they may be buried please. Thank you
There is a plaque in St Thomas’s to Rice Davies (1742-1818), a son Of Neath and grandfather to Rhys Davies Powell who built Craig y Nos. He was a surgeon and magistrate in London for most of his life. Is anything known about his family origins?
Thanks
. Hi , I am a descendant of Rice and Elizabeth Davies . I visited the church about 10 years ago , and luckily there was a church warden who told me they are actually buried underneath the alter , very near the plaque . Evidently they were buried , must have been in a combined tomb , and then later there were alterations to the church , and the alter was built more or less on top of them . I asked the Church Warden where they were , as I was standing in front of the plaque, and he told me I was standing in them!
I have traced my family quite easily back to Rice Davies and Elizabeth ( nee Hickman) . But have come to a brick wall with their parents ! Rice had property in Aldgate , and was a Surgeon and later a Police Magistrate in Lambeth . I am descended from their daughter Elizabeth who married Matthew Knight of Loders Manor in Dorset , and Gun Wharf in Wapping , where he had a sail making business .
I have more info if you would like .
SH
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Hello,
I am helping a descendent of Rhys Davies Knight and would be happy to exchange information, and try and work out more about the origins of the Knight family. He also has a dna test on ancestry.
The family story seems fascinating, especially as Rhys senior disinherited one grandson in favour of another, Rhys Powell, who later built Cray y Nos.
The family are also connected to Dora Langlois, the writer and actress.
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Hi Matt
How lovely to hear from you re Rhys Davies family . Although we know the senior one as Rice Davies , buried in Neath . His Grandson on our side was Rhys Davies Knight , and he had a son also named Rhys Davies Knight !
This Rhys Davies Knight ( Junior) had a large family - his daughter Dora Langlois the author and actress was my Great Great Grandmother . She married a French actor , Hippolyte Langlois.
I have been researching our family for many years , and have got stuck with finding any parents of Rice Davies . I do have lots of info about his life , but not where he was born .
I am on Ancestry , and have a tree titled Langlois . It’s a bit of a muddle at the moment - I need to clean it up !
I can send you some info if you are interested .
I am wondering which family line your friend is from on the Knight side ?
We are from Matthew Knight of Loders, who married Rice Davies and Elizabeth Hickmans daughter Elizabeth Mary Davies .
All for now
Suzanne