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From: "UKGenealogy [Pauline]" <>
Subject: Re: [CMN-L] Davies families etc
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:06:06 +0200
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Bob

there was a large copperworks in Llanelli, my own gr.gr grandfather worked
there as a furnaceman.....I can see from 1881 that Benjamin was a
behinder/furnaceman.....mine moved to the next village which was Pembrey
parish which also had a large copperworks.......also surname Davies!! Not
connected as he left Conwil Elved for Llanelli to work in the
copperworks.....one of the main industries at that time as the rural areas
had no work except farming that is why there was migration to the large
towns....

Port Talbot has at this moment in time a steel works, unsure if they had a
copperwoks in the 1800's.....

Have you checked the Cambrian newspaper for a death/obit for Benjamin
Davies?

still looking
Pauline



----- Original Message -----
From: "robertgascoigne" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [CMN-L] EDWARDS Family of Llansadurden or Trelech


> Hello Pauline
>
> On the 1861 census John Davies is a Furnace Worker in Copper Works. The
> 1871 that I found has him as a Labourer, I wondered if he was in ill
> health
> as he died in the June quarter of 1871. The 1871 census show's the Family
> that I am sure of David age 10, Benjamin aged 8 and Mary Ann aged 2.
> Benjamin is my Interest as his son married my aunt Lucy (Gascoigne)
> Metcalfe
> from Pembroke a widow with a daughter. I was given the information that
> Benjamin's father worked in a Copper Mill, I have tried to find an
> obituary
> for Benjamin with no luck. Although I was lucky to obtain a chapter from a
> book entitled "A Gallery of Past Personalities of Port Talbot" which
> contains a chapter on Benjamin's son ,Richard Selway Davies who was the
> one
> who married Lucy . Richard was mentioned in Dispatches. The Davies family
> had many business's in Port Talbot. Benjamin was nicknamed Ben the Oil as
> that was the first Business delivering oil . I think I tried all the
> newspapers in the area for the Obituary with no luck . I have never found
> any information on Benjamin's brother David or sister Mary Ann. I think I
> will search for a will or a court case ,I found a court case in Scotland
> over a will that named four generations of the two families including
> wives
> and children.
>
>
> Bob
>
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