Hi Christopher, I've found the family you are after in the 1841 census returns for St Issells HO107/1448 district 2 entry 130 at Woodside (that's near Saundersfoot) Nicholas EVANS, head, 45, carpenter Ann, wife, 35 Ann DAVIES, ?mother-in-law, 65, independent Mary, daughter, 19, coal miner John, son, 18, coal miner Thomas, son, 12, coal miner Jeremiah, son, 10, coal miner Henry, son, 8, coal miner Nicholas, son, 6 Martha, daughter, 4 David, son, 6 months All were natives of Pembrokeshire (no other details) They certainly started them young in the pits at that time! Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com> To: <WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 4:32 AM Subject: [WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE] Nicholas and John Evans > I'm trying to find out something solid about my great grandfather and his > father who .were reportedly from Pembrokeshire in the Narberth district. > My GGF's name is John N. Evans wife Mary He emigrated to the US in 1862 > with his family and settled in Pennsylvania. He was born in 1825; Mary > was born in 1829 in Loveston parish and were married in > Pembrokeshire--I'd guess Loveston around 1849. All children were born > after they'd moved from Pembrokeshire to Glamorganshire before the 1851 > census. > > All the above is accurate and squares with other things we know. I hope > to use this info to sort out his parents, Nicholas Evans and Anne Davies > Evans. We found a marriage record of a Nicholas and Anne at St Issell's > but the children from subsequent baptismal records didn't match what we > thought we knew. In particular there was no John Evans among them. But no > other Nicholas and Anne married at St Issell's. Family notes do have N > and A married and buried at St Issell's, but there aren't any burial > records for either at St Issell's. Hard to know what the story is: John > may have been baptised elsewhere; the St Issell's record may list an > unrelated Nicholas and Anne and John's parents were married elsewhere > about the same time and John (possibly what my son refers to as a miracle > baby...) baptised there. Or the Thomas Evans who was baptized at St > Issell's about the time of John's birth was actually John and when the > church registrar wrote it up he'd heard so many Johns, Thomases and > Williams he got the name wrong. > > I'd be very grateful if someone could do a census lookup to see how many > Nicholas and Anne Evans' there are in the Narberth area and see how their > children match up. They should show up in the 1831 census with John and > maybe 2 other children and in the 1841 census with John and at least 4 > more children. Nicholas was a carpenter, according to family anecdotes > and John started in the mines as a boy of about 7, (What a helluva thing > for a little boy...) probably 1832. If anyone has access to Loveston > parish marriage records, it'd be nice to find out if John and Mary were > married there as the 1851 census has Mary coming from Loveston parish. > > Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant from > chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen. > ___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864) > http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw > >