Dear Listers,
I would like to draw your attention to the website of Frances Bevan at
http://victoriandiary.blogspot.com
Under the title "A Year's March Nearer Heaven", Frances Bevan's website
recounts the story of the Bevan family of Overton near Port Eynon on the
Gower Peninsula in the 1870s and '80s. The family farmed 141 acres mainly of
cereal and potatoes, but also soft fruit and a variety of livestock. Here
you can experience the 19th century daily life of the small local community,
bound together by family ties in Oxwich, Horton, Rhosili and Swansea.
Frances Bevan acquired a collection of over 200 family letters exchanged
between the Bevan family living on Gower and other members of the family
including a son in Llandudno, North Wales. Most of the letters dated from
1878 to the mid 1880s but there were also odd notes kept over the years,
wedding invitations, newspaper cuttings, even a few poems.
Frances Bevan has researched the family back to 17th century. On her
website, she interprets and presents the results of her research in the form
of fascinating day-by-day diary or 'blog' entries, as they may have been
written, for example, by Ann Bevan, the farmer's wife. More entries are
still being added.
I first visited the website this morning and was captivated by it. I
thoroughly recommend it to you.
Kind regards,
John
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John Ball, Ystalyfera, near Swansea, Wales, UK
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