Pendre, Cardigan - Stanley House - Mary (Evans) Davies

[Special Needs Girl]

Oh wow. Thanks for the newspaper report. I’ll send that to my friend now. She will be delighted.
It is her Uncle (mother’s brother).

I’ll go onto FindMyPast now and find the funeral report. (I did offer to do her tree for her but she hasn’t taken the bait yet.)

I’m not sure whether it was Crescent or Road, sorry. I may have made a mistake. I did find the 1939 register entry.
Apparently my friend’s grandfather was a station master.

One of Thomas’s brothers was a Baptist Minister as was / is my friend’s brother.

Does anyone know which ward / area Pendre, Cardigan would be on the electoral register?

I have trawlled through the 1965 ones but not found anything. Mind you a**** was glitching so I didn’t get through it.

Thanks for all your help
SNG

[CaroleW]

Are you aware there were 2 births in 1915 for a Thomas Elfed Davies?  The one b March qtr died 1997 & is on find a grave.

The 1939 occupations of John R Davies & John E b 12.3.1915 don't really fit the 1954 newspaper description although it was 15yrs later so things may have changed

There is a 1936 ER showing that John E Davies of Corbett Cresc was a BA.

[Special Needs Girl]

Thanks CaroleW

The family living in Corbett Crescent are correct.

My friend said that it is her family.

Her Uncle Thomas Elfed Davies is buried with his first wife in Rhydlewis.

She said that all the family were very talented.

Thomas Elfed Davies was a teacher and had a law degree.

It is his second wife that I am trying to locate.  As I do not know when or where she was born I have been searching for her first husband.
There is a possibility that she was Irish.
She was the housekeeper for Sea Captain Evans before marrying him.
I was hoping to find her on an electoral register for the area she lived in - Pendre, Cardigan.
I have found her as Mary Davies but not as Mary Evans or with her husband.

SNG

[CaroleW]

You need the 1969 marriage cert to establish her maiden name

[hanes teulu]

She said that all the family were very talented.

I certainly got that impression from the various newspaper items I came across. Tickled to see the local "rag" in 1942 reporting eldest brother receiving "a commission in the R.E.M.E (on secret radio location work)." 

[Special Needs Girl]

Ooo I’ll have to look for that Hanes Teulu. Thanks

I planted the seed about getting the MC and I think that is now on the cards.
SNG

[hanes teulu]

There's a wealth of stuff in the papers. However, nothing to assist your search for Mary/Tom in Cardigan post war apart from snippet already posted with his Aberystwyth Road address.
Tom Elfed's father was very well respected - council work, conductor of a choir, adjudicator at Eisteddfods etc
Merthyr Express, 22 Apr 1939

Only snipped part - check FindMyPast for rest which mentions his link to GWR.