WATKINS Merthyr Tydfil / Gelligaer Common

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Hello
  Non Conformist Jenkin Watkin farmer died 1829 merthyr tydfil  left will 1830   wife as Anne  children   
  Mary    Margaret     John     Thomas    and Edmund
 I am looking for any help on Edmund Watkins and family who were farmers towards upper Bargoed Valley around Nany y Ffin  Bryn Caerae  the Watkins farms were called Blaen Bargoed also called Blaenycwm Farm  which was Thomas Watkins wife Sarah  children  Sarah born abt 1804 and Thomas born abt 1818
and Cwmbargoed Farm which was farmer Edmund Watkins married in  1818  to Margaret Llewellyn they had children
Gregory born abt 1817   married twice first to Jane  and later to Elizabeth
Edmund born abt 1819   
Jenkin         abt   1820
Mary            abt  1824    married in 1853  to   David Powell
Ann                   1825    married in  1847  to   James James
Rebecca             1828    married in   1850 to   Herbert Robert Harris
Llewellyn            1830   
John                  1832  married in  1858  to     Margaret Morgans
Jane                  1835  married  in  1855  to    Joseph Griffiths
Barbara             1837   married in   1867  to    Enoch Davies
Isaac                 1840   married in   1868 ??  to  Elizabeth Jenkins 
Thomas             1836   married in               Margaret Thomas
are you researching any of the above families
any information gratefully for
thanks  Christine

[Mabel Bagshawe]

This advert has Thomas Watkins retiring in1840 and selling all stock from Cwmbargoed Farm

http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3633428/3633430/8/

he appears stil to be alive in 1856, when he is reported as 87 years of age

In 1860 four of the Watkins brothers got into a spot of bother
http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3072718/3072722/17/

jenkin watkins was in a long running bastardy case with a Hannah Lloyd c1864

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Edmund Watkins died 5 November 1864 at Blaen Bargoed, aged 76

Isaac Watkins of Blaenbargoed died 23 December 1910 in his 71st year.