My Great grand father Rees EVANS died near Cefn works. His death cert states his death was registered at Bridgend. When & where died was 20th May 1867 before Tythegstone aged 37 informant was Howel Cuthbertson, the registrar was Richard Leyesbon. I found a report in the Bridgend Chronicle dated Friday May 24th 1867 which reads as follows:-          ''Distressing Suicide- It appears that a man named Rees EVANS , was found hung to a tree near Cefn works on Monday morning last, a little after seven'o'clock.He left his house at an early hour to go to his work at the slip near Tondu, and was not seen alive afterwords. He was 37 years of age, nd has left a wife and five children to morn his loss. No cause has been assigned for the rash act.'' I would like to find out where he may have been buried, most likely in an unmarked grave. There are some discrepancies in the newspaper report, one is the statement that he left his house, this should have read that he left his lodgings, another is that it states he had a wife and five children this should read ' a wife and two children[His wife was with child at the time of his death which would make it three , the third child was not born until Dec]. So my main aim is to confirm that this is my relation. All I really know is that my Rees EVANS disappeared between about March 1867 when his third child was conceived and Dec when he was born. I found his wife and children on the 1871 census living with a William ROGERS and her three sons John,Pryce and Arthur all of which adopted the name ROGERS. The only death that fits Rees EVANS is the one above. Regards Di

Cefn works in Tythegston parish must be Cefn Cribbwr and ' the slip near Tondu' must be the Park Slip colliery, the site of a disaster on 26th. August, 1892. Howel Cuthbertson was son of a local landowner, a lawyer, coroner and a busy man with other roles . From the Cambrian Index. 30 December 1864 ELECTION OF CORONER,WESTERN DIVISION OF GLAMORGAN, AT NEATH - HOWEL CUTHBERTSON ONLY CANDIDATE.P5 05 January 1866 THE GUARDIAN FIRE & LIFE ASSURANCE CO.-AGENTS HOWEL CUTHBERTSON,NEATH. P4. 05 January 1866 NEATH BOARD OF GUARDIANS:HOWEL CUTHBERTSON, (CLERK);JOHN WILLIAMS. P5 18 September 1868 PENRHIEWTYN MANSION & ESTATE BOUGHT BY HOWEL CUTHBERTSON,SON OF LATE OWNER. P5. That's all I have at the moment. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "DAVID JONES" <evadlezah01@btinternet.com> To: <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 10:37 PM Subject: [GLA] Suicide My Great grand father Rees EVANS died near Cefn works. His death cert states his death was registered at Bridgend. When & where died was 20th May 1867 before Tythegstone aged 37 informant was Howel Cuthbertson, the registrar was Richard Leyesbon. I found a report in the Bridgend Chronicle dated Friday May 24th 1867 which reads as follows:- ''Distressing Suicide- It appears that a man named Rees EVANS , was found hung to a tree near Cefn works on Monday morning last, a little after seven'o'clock.He left his house at an early hour to go to his work at the slip near Tondu, and was not seen alive afterwords. He was 37 years of age, nd has left a wife and five children to morn his loss. No cause has been assigned for the rash act.'' I would like to find out where he may have been buried, most likely in an unmarked grave. There are some discrepancies in the newspaper report, one is the statement that he left his house, this should have read that he left his lodgings, another is that it states he had a wife and five children this should read ' a wife and two children[His wife was with child at the time of his death which would make it three , the third child was not born until Dec]. So my main aim is to confirm that this is my relation. All I really know is that my Rees EVANS disappeared between about March 1867 when his third child was conceived and Dec when he was born. I found his wife and children on the 1871 census living with a William ROGERS and her three sons John,Pryce and Arthur all of which adopted the name ROGERS. The only death that fits Rees EVANS is the one above. Regards Di -- To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html - A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ - The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message