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