Wish I could help you. Most of my researching on your side of the Pond is
for my grandfather's Davi(e)s Wales family. I do have Wilsons, but from
1700-1800-in USA. Good luck.
Nancy Houser
In a message dated 10/3/2011 10:42:31 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
david.e.nuttall(a)btinternet.com writes:
I am researching an EVANS family from LLANGYNOG, Montgomeryshire: ROBERT
EVANS b.1844, (son of ROBERT EVANS b. DOLGELLY, Merionethshire 1844), and
his wife JANE; their eldest son, ROBERT EVANS, b.1864, died in France, 1916,
(married to HANNAH MARIA and living in MERTHYR TYDFIL at the time of his
enlistment); other children, WILLIAM, DAVID, EVAN, JOHN, HUMPHREY, ELLINOR,
OWEN, EDWARD.
My interest in this family is that I believe the ROBERT EVANS who died in
WW1 to be the brother of my grandfather ALFRED WILSON, born in LLANGYNOG
c.1868. ALFRED WILSON gives his place of birth as LLANGYNOG on the 1911
census and on his Army Medical Papers; so, even if he wasn't actually born
there, he would seem to have a connection with that place.
Much of the information I have about him came from his daughter, my late
mother. She told me that ALFRED WILSON’S father's name was ROBERT and that
his mother's name was JANE EVANS. While he was away serving in the Royal
Artillery, during WW1, she was going through his drawers, as you do, and found
a piece of paper with a list of names on it; she remembered ROBERT,
WILLIAM, EVAN, OWEN. These, she was told by my grandmother, were her father's
brothers; some of them, my mother remembered, were called EVANS. ROBERT, she
was told, had been killed in action in WW1.The only ROBERT from Llangynog to
be killed in WW1 is ROBERT EVANS of Tynewydd, Llangynog and he is
commemorated in the Memorial Hall, Llangynog and also on the War Memorial in Merthyr
Tydfil.
I have not been able to identify ALFRED WILSON on any census before 1901,
Then he is living in HOLLINWOOD, LANCASHIRE with his wife MARY ELLEN
BROOKS, whom he married in 1896, and working as a coal miner. Apart from
attending a funeral in Wales during WW1 and receiving a surprise visit from WILLIAM
(or EVAN), he appears to have had little contact with his family. My
mother sent a telegram to somewhere in WALES when he died in 1928.
I would be interested to contact anyone related to this EVANS family in
LLANGYNOG.
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