Davies & Mainwaring
Family History
Last updated 27th October, 1999
Researching DAVIES in Carmarthen and Glamorgan is no easy task!
Daniel lived in Sebastopol Street, Swansea and in 1890 his occupation was dock labourer, though by the 1891 census he is described as a building mason. His marriage certificate told me only that his father was John - the trouble is there are even more John than Daniel DAVIES!
Fortunately my Daniel was living with his widowed sister Mary on the 1881 census, and married from the same address the following year. This enabled me to locate their birth certificates - the only two entries with the same father and mother from nine possible births in the right time span!
DAVIES:
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Name
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Date of Birth
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Place of birth
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| 1. John DAVIES | ||
| m. Jane ISAAC | ||
| 2. Mary DAVIES | 20 Feb 1839 | Goitrefach, Llandilo, Carmarthenshire |
| m. [Unknown] JONES | ||
| 2. Daniel DAVIES | 3 Nov 1849 | Goitrefach, Llandilo, Carmarthenshire |
| m. Hannah MAINWARING 1882 | c. 1857 | Llangefelach, Glamorgan |
| 3. John Edward DAVIES | 1887-88 | Swansea, Glamorgan |
| 3. Gwenllian DAVIES | 1887-88 | Swansea, Glamorgan |
| 3. William George DAVIES | 1st May 1890 | Swansea, Glamorgan |
| m.Ellen Marjorie BARTON c.1920 | 13th Nov 1895 | Pancras, London |
| 4. Sybil Gwenllian DAVIES | 15th Apr 1922 | Llanelli, Carmarthen |
| 3. Nan DAVIES (possibly Hannah?) | 1890s? | |
| m. Cliff ? [unknown] | ||
| 4. Crichton ? |
On the 1881 Census, Daniel was living in Swansea with his widowed elder sister, Mary JONES.
On the 1891 Census, there was a Thomas DAVIES, Railway Foreman, (born 1860 - 61 in Gloster) boarding with Daniel's family. Further investigation is needed to establish whether this is a co-incidence or whether this could be Daniel's younger brother or perhaps his nephew. The connection with Gloucester eludes me at present!
John Edward DAVIES may be my mother's 'Uncle Jack' who later lived in Ammanford and made deliveries of butter in an old Ford van.
MAINWARING:
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Name
|
Date of Birth
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Place of birth
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| 1. Edward MAINWARING | c. 1805 | Llanedi, Carmarthenshire |
| m. Hannah ROGERS (widow) 1829 | c. 1795 | Llangyfelach, Glamorgan |
| 2. Edward MAINWARING | bap. 4 Dec 1832 | Hendrefach (Llangyfelach), Glamorgan |
| m. Ann(e) BEVAN 1857 | c. 1836 | Llangyfelach, Glamorgan |
| 3. Hannah MAINWARING | c. 1857 | Llangyfelach, Glamorgan |
| m. Daniel DAVIES 1882 | c. 1852 | Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire |
| 3. John MAINWARING | c. 1858 | Llangyfelach, Glamorgan |
| 2. William MAINWARING | bap. 4 Dec 1832 | Hendrefach (Llangyfelach) Glamorgan |
| m. Elizabeth REES née MARRIS? 1864 | c. 1825 - 31 | Llandebie, Carmarthenshire? |
| 2. Thomas MAINWARING | c. 1836 | Llangyfelach, Glamorgan |
The MAINWARING family have been difficult, to say the least. Hannah's birth was apparently not registered and as the Glamorgan Family History Society point out, some years of the Llangyfelach Parish Register are 'suspiciously thin'. The baptisms of Hannah and her brother John certainly aren't there.
In addition, her father Edward and uncle William's baptisms, which took place in 1832, were only added as an afterthought in 1837 in the Llandeilo Tal-y-Bont Register. Her uncle Thomas was left out altogether.
I don't yet know where Edward and his family were in 1871. Lodging with Hannah and her husband in 1891, I found a Thomas MAINWARING, born 1871-72 in Nottingham, described as a Copper Rolls man. This makes me wonder if he is her younger brother and if the family spent some time in Nottingham. The Nottinghamshire 1881 Census reveals no MAINWARINGs at all and only one family of MANNERINGs.
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