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Garfydd

Issue of Lewis Price Shute are correct.  Mary Ellen and David Rees were christened (loose term) Shute as shown in 1901 census, but 1911 census shows them as Price.  Hannah Blodwen Price was my maternal grandmother (died 1979).  She married Ernest Hill (my Mum's father) in 1925.  He died aged 49.  She then married William Williams in 1955 and they lived until their deaths in Skewen.  Lewis Thomas Price (b 1907) was decapitated in a railway accident in 1915.  They were living with their mother, Mary Price (Shute) at Railway Terrace, Ystradgynlais at the time, hence Lewis Thomas had wandered onto the railway line at such a tender age.  A tragic family indeed.  When his father, Lewis Price (Shute) hung himself in October 1909, his wife Mary had not long given birth to the fifth and youngest member of the family, Maggie Ann Price (b 1909).  My mother is still alive, aged 83 (Audrey nee Hill Jenkinson) and lives in Pyle, Mid-Glam.  She is finding all this fascinating. At the age of 11, she was sent by Hannah Blodwen to work for her grandmother (Mary) at the pub for 6 months. To this day, she describes it as slavery!

Garfydd

Mary Price, my great grandmother did indeed remarry Ivor Pritchard and ran the Three Horseshoes in Trecastle.  I have obtained the birth certificate for Lewis, born 1875 in Pantyfynow, ystrdgunlais, son of Rees Shute and Hannah, formerly Price.

That's amazing. That makes us distant relatives!  I would really appreciate it if you could share your tree on the Shute side.  When you say famous illegal family, what do you mean?  Also, why would Lewis drop the Shute surname?

Gareth

Hi
On my grandmothers birth certificate, it states that she was born at Canolymaes, Traianmawr, in 1901.  Is Canolymaes a farm and if so, who owned it at the time?  Her father was Lewis Price, an agricultural labourer, who may well have lived on the farm.