Tracing the Genealogy of One Branch of the Davies Family in South Wales. Part 1: Glamorganshire

Morley, John O

Annals of Genealogical Research > Vol. 10, No. 1 (2014)

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Tracing the Genealogy of One Branch of the Davies Family in South Wales. Part 1: Glamorganshire

John O Morley, Swansea University

Abstract
The genealogy of one branch of the Davies family in Glamorganshire is covered, starting with Daniel James Davies. He was born in Clydach in the Swansea Valley in 1884 and brought up by his grandparents, James and Ann Tibbs. He became a coal miner and married Elizabeth Jane Rees of Ynysforgan in 1907; they had five children. They were Welsh-speaking and non-conformists. Daniel later moved from Clydach to work in Morriston and became employed as a fireman in a steel works; he died in 1961. His wife Elizabeth had died in 1958. Her father, Richard Rees, was a local councilor on the Llangyfelach Council and a bard; he had married Hannah Lewis in 1881 and they had six children. Richard’s father was Thomas Rees, a wheelwright. Daniel’s family was part English as his grandfather James Tibbs was born in Prestleigh in Somerset around 1838, son of James Tibbs, born around 1810, who, in turn, was son of James born 1770, all in Somerset. Daniel’s father, John Davies, was born in Carmarthenshire in 1859 but spent all of his working life in Clydach. In 1858 he married Martha Tibbs, daughter of Ann (Jones) and James Tibbs. John Davies had been employed by Hill's Merthyr Colliery in Clydach for over 47 years before his death in 1930.

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Cite as: John O Morley, "Tracing the Genealogy of One Branch of the Davies Family in South Wales. Part 1: Glamorganshire ," Annals of Genealogical Research Vol. 10, No. 1 (2014) at http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=54

Subject areas: Davies Family; Rees Family; Glamorganshire, South Wales, UK

Annals of Genealogical Research - ISSN 1555-9904