I have two separate Bevan connections in my ancestry. The first is Mary Bevan, my great great grandmother, who married an Edward Edwards in 1849 at Munslow, and had three children, Edward, Mary and my great grandmother, Sarah Edwards.
Mary was the daughter of Thomas Bevan, a farmer, but so far I have not been able to trace her baptism or anything about her parents. Census records identify Mary as having been born in Radnorshire, or at Pauis Castle, Radnorshire, which is a mystery since Powis Castle is firmly in Montgomeryshire! I can not trace her baptism or any sign of her father, Thomas Bevan. Census records are rather inconsistent as to her age, but she was probably born around 1817-1820.
Mary married a second time, to William Hayes in 1855, and they remained at The Plough in Rushbury. The marriage register misled me for some considerable time as the father's name was poorly written, but I identified it wrongly as Thomas Beton (ruling out Bevan at the time), which led me into extensive searching of Beton records for the ancestry (Beton/Betton was a family of some note in Shropshire). Needless to say the search was fruitless!
My second Bevan connection is via Elizabeth Bevan who married William Philpot at Hopton Wafers, Shropshire, in 1826. While not yet conclusively proven I believe they were the parents of my great great grandmother, Mary Philpotts, who was baptised in 1832, and that they also had children, Martha (1826) and John (1837). Elizabeth Bevan was probably baptised at Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, in 1803, the eldest of 10 children of John Bevan and Ann (probably née Cook), who were married at Neen Savage, Shropshire, in 1801. John was a labourer. The other children of John and Ann Bevan, all baptised at Cleobury Mortimer, were John (1805), Anne (1807), Sarah (1809), John (1811), Caroline (1813), William (1816), Margaret (1820), James (1823) and Thomas (1827). The 1841 census suggests that John was born between 1771 and 1776; the only baptism of a John Bevan that I have traced within a reasonable distance of Cleobury Mortimer at the right time is the son of William and Sarah Bevan at Dowles, Shropshire, in 1772.
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