Morien Morgan

[caulfeild]

Thanks for all this info Morgan but if you are right it means a huge chunk of my research is completely wrong. I was told by my grandma (Lewis Rees's wife) that his mother was called Mary Ann Edwards and was from Aberdare and that his father's father was a blacksmith. This fits with the info I have gathered so far.

I feel really confused and need to go and sift through your findings and straighten things out.

Alison

[Morganllan]

Hello Alison 

I'm sorry to throw a spanner in the works! Let me know how you get on with the information. The Edwards and Llewelyn families are obviously related.

Your Grandfather was Lewis Llewelyn Rees, born 1891 (December quarter)
GRO Pontypridd volume 11a page 573

I believe that his Mother was Mary Ann Llewelyn and his was father Jenkin Rees (as above). If you look for Jenkin Rees, born Llanddewi Brefi, in 1871, his father also Jenkin Rees is a blacksmith!

Location: Cwmtwrch, Alltygraig, Llanguicke Parish, Glamorgan

Jenkin Rees Head age 56  BLACKSMITH  born Llngybi, Cardiganshire
Mary Rees Wife age 42  born Llanddewi, Cardiganshire
John Rees Son age 22 Collier  born Llanddewi, Cardiganshire
David Rees Son age 15 Collier  born Llanddewi, Cardiganshire
Evan Rees Son age 13 Collier  born Llanddewi, Cardiganshire
Margaret Rees Dau age 11  born Llanddewi, Cardiganshire
JENKIN REES Son age 10 Scholar  born Llanddewi, Cardiganshire
Herbert Rees Son age 8 Scholar  born Llanddewi, Cardiganshire
Rodrick Rees Son age 7 Scholar  born Llanguicke
Walter Rees Son age 8 months  born Llanguicke

RG10 Piece 5435 Folio 53 Page 6

Of course, you my want to follow this up with purchase of your Grandfather's birth certificate, and the marriage certificate of Mary Ann and Jenkin. 

Kindest Regards
Morgan

[caulfeild]

I will definitely be sending off for a birth certificate for my grandfather Lewis Llewellyn to check his mother's name.

I've got details of the Reeses back to the 1841 census and have collected background info on the places they lived in.

I'm pretty disheartened though about having spent a long time researching the Edwards all the way back to Somerset. I got back as far as 1596 in Wilts with one line.

Don't blame yourself though - I didn't force you to help!

Alison

[CGR10]

Morien Morgan taught French at Pontypridd Boys Grammar School not Aberdare, although he and his family lived in Aberdare from about 1950 to the late 1960s.  The family then moved to Mountain Ash, giving Morien a shorter journey to work.

[MarMnkly]

Hi there, article in the 'Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror', Wednesday February 8th 1939.
Heading - Exchanged Prisoners Back From Spain.
Article - Sixty three members of the International Brigade from Spain, who since March of last year had been in prison in San Pedro de Cardenas, arrived in London last night, having been exchanged for Italian prisoners. Morien Morgan, 21 year old Cardiff University student whose home is at Ynysybwl near Cardiff, gave a graphic story of hardship to a reporter. Incarcerated in a Monastery with no heating apparatus, the prisoners suffered from intense cold. Many prisoners were beaten up. Once a German escaped, and his colleagues, who refused to say which direction he went, were put in a dungeon and fed on water for five days."