Baptist Minister Samuel Davey Thomas

[chapla1n]

Hi Tsumi,

I've tried to record all the ministers who have served baptist Churches in this area and the info I have on S D Thomas is:

THOMAS   SAMUEL DAVEY
PONTYPOOL location of the Baptist College which moved to Cardiff

Ministries in:
Waterford 1868-1871
Wrexham 1874-1877
Walton Suffolk 1877-1882
Union King's Lynn 1882-1889
Aberdeen 1889-1901
Earlstown 1901-1906
Lliswerry Newport 1911-1926
b30.6.1841 d 1.4.1930

This information comes from various Baptist Union Handbooks.

Hope it all helps,

Regards

Rev Bob Evans

[Arranroots]

Hello Rev Bob - welcome to Rootschat! 

We always give an extra special welcome to people who come bearing gifts!  I hope you stick around, though and that we can help you in return.

Kind regards, Arranroots 

[tsumi]

Many thanks for your time and help Rev Bob.

I did contact the Pontypool Training College,about  getting details of Rev Sam D Thomas, education,but to date I have heard nothing from them .
Maybe time to ask them again.

Cheers Tsumi 

[alwyn21]

The Pontypool Seminary/Training College, was the Baptist Training College for Wales until about 1891 when it moved to Cardiff, where it still is, at
54-58 Richmond Rd
Cardiff, CF24 3UR, Wales, United Kingdom
+44 29 20256066 www.swbc.org.uk .
If you contact them, they have a full list of the yearbooks, and should be able to find Samuel Davey Thomas and also the churches where he subsequently was a minister. The college is in fact  department of the Unversity of Cardiff, with whom it shares lecturers and staff

Tsumi - if you wrote to Pontypool Baptist Training College, then you're over 100 years too late - as I said, it moved to Cardiff about 1891. However, I think Rev Bob Evans has already done your work for you - the list thta he provides looks like the information one would get from the annual handbooks, which, as I said are all held at the cardiff Baptist Training College. The only other information which might be added to it is by looking at the handbook for the year after his death, when the college generally produced an obituary which summarised all his previous career.  Otherwise, I would look for information in the local papers and Public Record offices of the areas where Bob Evans says he ministered

[chapla1n]

Hi Tsumi

Please find attached the obituary of Rev S D Thomas from the 1931 Baptist Union Handbook.
Hope it helps.

Blessings

Rev Bob

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[tsumi]

Hi all,

Sorry I should have said Cardiff ,when I put Pontypool College,as the one I contacted a while ago.

Many, Many, thanks Rev Bob for your kindness and time.

Good luck with your own research.

Cheers Tsumi

[alwyn21]

Rev Bob, you're a real star!

The only thing I can add is that Lliswerry Baptist Church , which is near Newport, South Wales, has a web-site which can be contacted at

http://www.lliswerrybaptist.org.uk/

They probably have some written information about S D Thomas, and maybe a photograph, though of course, there are unlikely to be any of the members alive there now who remember him

Bob - since you clearly have access to the Baptist College library, do you have anything on the Rev Alexander Evans, my great, great uncle,who was brought up as a member of Ramoth Baptist Chapel Hirwaun, ( and wrote a history of Ramoth). He was minister at St Mellons,near Cardiff  then King St, Blaenavon, and finally Builth Wells? He died on April 20th 1938 ansd I belive that his obituary is in the Baptist Handbook of 1939.

Diolch yn fawr

Alwyn 

[chapla1n]

Hi  Alwyn21,

Please find attached the required obituary. Whilst I have access to the small Baptist College archive, I have most of the directories at home. However, the Library at South Wales baptist College contains a large number of individual church histories, and there is usually a review of their ministers in them. There is no mention of Al;exander Evans in Huw Matthews recent history of the College, nor in Brynmor Pierce-Jones "Sowing Besides All Waters, but there may be something about him in Caersalem Baptist, St Mellons, Church History 1794-1984 by Russell Williams.

Happy hunting - Blessings

Rev Bob

[graf]

Alwyn21 - Here is a photo of the pastor and deacons of  Caersalem Baptist in St Mellons from
the period 1910-1920 and the central figure may well be the pastor Rev Alexander Evans
who would have been 48 in 1920. Do you recognize him ?

Rev Bob - My greatgrandfather Samuel Williams of Hermon, Nantyglo was a
Baptist minister and died in November 1876. I am told he is
mentioned in the Baptist Union handbook of 1878. Any chance of a copy ?

thanks,
Robert