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I  have found  a sister of my great grandmother who was living at the siop at the time of her death in 1900. She was the daughter of David and Sarah Evans of Glan'rafon. I have found the same shop mentioned in the Census but as far as I can see there is no address to determine which one it is.  What type of shop might it have been, any ideas? 

I live in David and Sarah's house. There's also a picture of them, in the garden, in J Elwyn Hughes' book 'Un Nos Ola Leuad'. They had two daughters, spinsters who died in old age around about the 1980's/90's. I'm intrigued by the possibility you mention, that  there was another daughter. As I understood it, from the tales that the last surviving daughter told me, they were his only children.

Incidentally, I know that a Joseph Rutter lived here before David and Sarah. A few years back, eight feet down, at the bottom of a ?communal ash pit in the garden, I found a slate which had scratched on it  "Joseph Rutter     Aoed (sic) 29 =1816     (?)Jane (?) Mair   27 1816 ". I saw, but forget the details of a subsequent census , which showed them as still resident in the house.