This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davies, Mainwaring, Proverbs, Ball Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/HNR.2ACEB/1311 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on my great-great grandfather, Lewin Thomas Davies (sometimes written Thomas Lewin Davies), who was born at Monk Street, Abergavenny in 1862. Lewin was the son of the Reverend William George Davies (1821-1900) of Cardigan and Mary Jane Davies (nee Ball) of Bideford. Lewin's father, The Rev. William George Davies, was the rector of Llansantffraed Church and Llanvihangel Gobion. Lewin grew up in Nevill Street, Abergavenny and had five siblings - Laura Davies, William Davies, Jessie Emily Davies (who married Alfred Major G. Williams), Wallace Woodhouse Davies and Priscilla Dora Davies (who married Hugh William Proverbs). Lewin married Sarah Annette Mainwaring in 1885 and had two children, Wallace Lewin Hedley Davies (b.1888) and Dorothy Davies (b.1890). Lewin and Sarah lived in Regent Street and Lewin worked as a Railway Manager's Clerk at Abergavenny. In the 1899 Lewin left Wales to go to the Boer War. I don't believe he was a soldier as I am told he was working as a journalist there but I have no evidence to prove this. He sent photographs back to his family of the siege of Kimberley and of various railway stations that had been damaged by the Boers. The fact that he took photos of railway stations suggests to me that he may have been working for a British Railway company in Africa. Lewin returned to Wales in 1902. In the late 1910s or early 1920s Lewin left Wales to go the USA and he decided to stay there. He sent money for the fare back to his wife, Sarah, in Wales hoping that she would join him. Sarah did not wish to go and spent the money that he had sent. I do not know which area of America Lewin lived and I do not know what happened to him whilst he was there. I believe he died before 1941 because on Sarah's death certificate of the same year it states that she was the widow of Lewin Davies, Railway Correspondence Clerk. If anyone has any further information on Lewin Davies or any other member of his family I shall be most grateful.