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oai:agr.www.genlit.org:article/37
2012-01-02T15:38:30Z
issue-9
Genealogy of the Morleys in South Wales: Glamorgan and the Vale of Neath from 1700 to 1800
Morley, John O
Morley Family; Glamorgan
The first Morleys who can be positively identified in Glamorgan in the eighteenth century lived in the parishes of Llangyfelach and Cadoxton Juxta Neath. Their families are thought to have migrated from Carmarthenshire to Glamorgan early in the eighteenth century though there is no conclusive evidence to support this supposition. Full details of the baptisms, marriages and deaths of their descendants which have been obtained from the parish registers, particularly in the Vale of Neath, are described. The first person identified in this work is William Morley of Llangyfelach, originally from Llandybie, and a mariner who died at sea. The next person of note was also called William Morley but he was a yeoman residing in Cadoxton. He married Elinor John in Cadoxton in 1752 and they had at least eight children, some of whom are reasonably well documented in the parish records and in William’s will, dated 1814. Almost all of their descendants were employed in either the coal mines or in manufacturing industry. William’s second son, Thomas Morley (M2), married Catherine Hopkin also in Cadoxton in 1773 and they had at least five children before she died in 1787.
2012-01-02
Non-Refereed Article
http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=37
Annals of Genealogical Research; Vol. 8, No. 1 (2012)
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Addendum: Genealogy of the Morleys from 1700 to 1800 http://www.genlit.org/agr/include/getdoc.php?id=145&public=true
Glamorgan; South Wales, UK; ;
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oai:agr.www.genlit.org:article/38
2012-01-17T16:19:44Z
issue-9
Genealogy of the Morleys in South Wales: Expansion of the Family in the Nineteenth Century
Morley, John O
Morley Family; Nineteenth Century; Glamorgan
By the middle of the nineteenth century the Morley family was well established in the counties of Glamorgan and Carmarthen. In the Vale of Neath, the first identified ancestor of this branch of the family, William Morley (L), born around 1726, had several children whose lives have been described previously. This account describes William’s descendants especially his grandson Thomas Morley (N1), whose life is well documented in the parish records. He married Anne Hopkin in Llantwit Juxta Neath in 1803 and they had eight children. Thomas (N1) was originally employed in the coal mines but later he became a fireman and then a doubler in a tinworks. About 1825 he moved with his family to Cwmavon where he worked for the Copper Miners Tinplate Works. His life and the lives of his children, especially his third son Thomas (O1), are described also in this article. At the time of the 1841 census there were only 74 Morleys in Wales with 60 of these living in Glamorgan. A brief account of some of these who were related to the lineal descendants of William Morley (L) is also presented here. Thomas Morley (O1), who is described as an engineer, married Margaret Benjamin in 1844 in Cwmavon and they had two children but sadly Margaret died in April 1848 during a widespread cholera epidemic. Thomas (O1) remarried in December that year to Anne Pierce from Ludgevan (in Cornwall) and together they had a total of eleven children over the next 21 years. In the early 1850s, Thomas (O1) and his family moved from Cwmavon to Pontardawe where he was employed as a roll turner at the Ystalyfera Iron and Tinplate Company. In 1861 he again changed jobs and moved from Ystalyfera to Seaton, near Workington in Cumberland where one of his sons, William Henry Morley, was born. His work at Seaton was short-lived as he rejoined the Ystalyfera Works in late 1862 and remained there for at least another 13 years before moving once again to work in Morriston, Swansea.
2012-01-17
Non-Refereed Article
http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=38
Annals of Genealogical Research; Vol. 8, No. 1 (2012)
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South Wales, UK; ;
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oai:agr.www.genlit.org:article/40
2012-04-04T23:49:02Z
issue-9
Genealogy of the Morleys in South Wales: The Tinplate Industry and the Twentieth Century
Morley, John O
Morley Family; south Wales, Tinplate industry
This article describes the life of one branch of the Morley family in south Wales from the final quarter of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The account begins with a description of the life of Thomas Morley (O1) and his family following his time in Ystalyfera which was the subject of a previous article. He was employed as a roll turner at the Upper Forest or Worcester Tinplate works in Morriston and his three sons followed him into this skilled occupation. His second son, William Morley, who was born in Workington, married Margaret Matthews in 1886. Following an initial job in Morriston, he moved frequently in his career. It appears that he first moved to Llangennech in Carmarthenshire for two years and then to Germany for around two and a half years at a tinplate works on the Rhine near Cologne. He returned to South Wales in late 1892 to work at the Gwalia Tinplate Works at Briton Ferry. He left this works in 1897 and moved with his family to Pontardawe to join the tinplate works owned by W. Gilbertson and Co., Ltd. About 1899, he moved yet again with his family to the Avondale Tinplate Works in Pontnewydd, Monmouthshire. By 1911 he had left Avondale to work at the Cardonnel Tinplate Works in Skewen but his wife Margaret refused to move and remained in Pontnewydd with most of his children. His sixth son Oswald (Os) Morley, who also features in this account, was born in Pontnewydd and worked initially in the local coal mine. Following the closure of the mine in 1927, he moved to London to seek work and stayed there for around ten years. He returned to his home in Pontnewydd in 1937 having gained employment at the newly opened Metalitho Factory in Cwmbran. He married Mary Davies from Ynysforgan, Swansea, in 1941 and shortly afterwards he was called up and served in the Royal Marines, travelling to North Africa and Italy. He was demobbed in 1946 and became active in local politics. He was a Labour Party councillor for Pontnewydd from 1952 to 1958 and retired from work in 1968. This account also provides some details of his brothers and sisters who were living in Pontnewydd at this time.
2012-04-04
Non-Refereed Article
http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=40
Annals of Genealogical Research; Vol. 8, No. 1 (2012)
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South Wales; UK; ;
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oai:agr.www.genlit.org:article/41
2012-08-20T19:38:31Z
issue-9
The Duttons of Hatton Did Not Die Out: The Case Against the Rev'd Edward Dutton's Supposition
Dutton, Edward
Duttons of Dutton; Duttons of Hatton, Waverton, Stanthorne Hall, William Dutton; Gentry; Cheshire
In 1810, the leading reference work Magna Britannia implicitly accepted that the legitimate male line of the Cheshire Gentry family called the Duttons of Hatton had died out. This article demonstrates that there is a high probability that the Duttons of Hatton did not die out in the legitimate male line in the eighteenth century. They actually survived through the yeoman family called the Duttons of Waverton and their nineteenth century descendants the Duttons of Stanthorne Hall. The article shows that there are two legitimate lines through which the Duttons of Stanthorne Hall may have descended from the Duttons of Hatton, with one much more probable than the other.
2012-08-20
Non-Refereed Article
http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=41
Annals of Genealogical Research; Vol. 8, No. 1 (2012)
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Cheshire; ;
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oai:agr.www.genlit.org:article/42
2012-07-22T20:24:28Z
issue-9
Was Odard, First Lord of Dutton, a Distant Relative of William the Conqueror?
Dutton, Edward
Odard, Duttons of Dutton, St Saveurs, Viscount Cotentin,
According to the Dutton tree researched by antiquarian P. H. Lawson, Odard, first Lord of the Manor of Dutton in Cheshire and progenitor of the noted Gentry family the Duttons of Dutton, was related to William the Conqueror on his mother’s and on his father’s side. This article reviews the evidence and argues that Odard was not related to the Conqueror on his mother’s side. Regarding his father’s side, the evidence is perhaps most parsimoniously explained by Odard indeed being a distant relative of the Conqueror’s. However this conclusion is only fractionally more persuasive than the opposite one and accordingly there is good reason to seriously doubt it and reserve judgement.
2012-07-22
Non-Refereed Article
http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=42
Annals of Genealogical Research; Vol. 8, No. 1 (2012)
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Cheshire; ;
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oai:agr.www.genlit.org:article/44
2012-08-06T18:38:39Z
issue-9
The “Syrians” in St. Louis, Missouri: The Descendants of Joseph Webbe
Stricklin, Dawn C.
genealogy; Lebanese genealogy; Middle Eastern genealogy
Webbe; Maronite; Turkey; Syria; Hadchit; Hadsheet; Hadcheet; Lebanon; genealogy; St. Louis, Missouri; Azar; Elias; Simon; Leisure; Nassif; Mueller; John; Kopchala; Griffin; Thomas; Nasser; Wahby; Wehby; Reask; Provance; Powell
Since their immigration to the United States, Webbe and Wahby family members who settled in St. Louis, Missouri self-identified, or were identified by others, as “Syrian.” However, their areas of immediate origin are located within the current boundaries of Lebanon. This article provides a condensed historical account of Lebanon’s boundary changes, a brief genealogical summary of the descendants of Joseph Webbe and Sarah Azar who immigrated to the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and recommendations for further research.
2012-08-06
Non-Refereed Article
http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=44
Annals of Genealogical Research; Vol. 8, No. 1 (2012)
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Hadchit; Mt. Lebanon; Syria; Lebanon; Turkey; St. Louis; Missourii; late 1800s; early 1900s;
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