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This may not be of any particular interest to David but Daniel and Mary Davies's son David ("Reverend David R. Davies") emigrated to USA in 1885 and was ordained as a Congregational Minister. He and his wife settled in Clay County, Iowa, where there were many Welsh families, and they had two daughters. He died there in 1893. His wife Ellen Roberts died in 1939.

Ellis Jones married Gwen Roberts at Llanfor parish church on 29 December 1812. I don't know who Gwen was.

Their children were Robert (1813), Margaret (1814), John (abt 1816), Elinor (1819), Evan (1821), Jane (1823), Catharine (1825), Gwen (1828), Evan (1829), Susannah (1831), Ellis (1833) and David (1836) (it seems odd for there to be children born over a period of 23 years but it is correct).

Margaret and Susannah and their families emigrated to USA in 1851 and their mother Gwen (by then a widow) apparently went with them. Perhaps other members of the family went too.

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David Evans born 10 Jul 1835 in Llangeler married (1) Mary Davies, daughter of David Davies of Godrecynnen, Newchurch, Carmarthenshire on 24 May 1859 and they had three children; Mary died 15 May 1864 and he married (2) her sister Margaret on 8 Oct 1864, and they had eleven children. From the 1860s until 1881 he farmed at Godrecynnen and then all the family, except one daughter from his first marriage, emigrated to USA and settled in Dawn, Livingston County, Missouri, a settlement which included many emigrant Welsh people. David M. Evans (as he was known in USA) died 12 Jul 1895 and Margaret died 2 Nov 1919. There are many descendants of this family in USA.

David Evans's sister Sarah (Sally) born March 1848 emigrated at the same time and settled in Dawn where she married and had three children. She died there 26 July 1910.

David Evans's brother James Evans born 16 Oct 1851 also emigrated at the same time. He moved from Dawn to Texas soon afterwards and some years later (before 1900) he settled in Downey, Los Angeles County, California, where he had a farm. James Daniel Evans, as he was known in USA, died there 17 Sep 1940. He married (in Wales), and had several children.

The father Daniel Evans married Martha Jones on 30 Dec 1834 and they lived at Cwmcerrig, Llangeler. They had several children: David M. Evans (1835) (above), John Evans (1836), Rachel (1838), Thomas (1840), Evan (1843), Samuel (1845), Sarah (1848) (above), James Daniel (1851) (above) and Daniel (1855). Martha died 8 Jun 1865 and Daniel remarried in 1870 to Dinah James and he died at Penrhiw, Llangeler 19 Nov 1896. His gravestone is in Llangeler churchyard. The certificate for his second marriage gave his father's name as Daniel Evans.

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Catherine the daughter of John Evans of Maes, Llanfairynghornwy (later of Cilmaenan, Llanfaethlu) and Elizabeth Thomas was born 26 May 1850 at Maes, and died 28 July 1892 at Garn, Llanfairynghornwy. She married Richard Jones of Garn, Llanfairynghornwy, in 1871.