William Dennis should have been my grandfather.

[heddwch]

We record the death of a young friend William Dennis to the place above who died 26th February at the early age of 26 years old.The son of John and Hannah Dennis, Gadlys Street,Aberdare. His mother died when he was just a small child.Soon after this, his father moved to Ferndale to live there and he spent the greater part of his life living comfortably in the house of his aunt,Elizabeth Williams of Taff Street. He was buried the following Saturday at Aberdare public landfill site . The service was carried out by the Reverend D Silent Evans,Aberdare. He left a young widow of six months to mourn him who participated in the ceremony. Let the widows comforter and father of the fatherless look after her in her misery and longing.

[Mabel Bagshawe]

guessing this is a translation of this article in Welsh from Y Celt, 15 march 1901

http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3140945/3140951/37/

Couple of points from reading the image - the OCR of the article is a mess  which doesn't help

William Dennis is noted as 21 yrs of age, not 26

He was buried at Aberdare Public Cemetery (not landfill site, which is another translation of the word used)

[heddwch]

Thank you Mabel.  Heddwch

[Tattyjacket]

Thanks,
I've tried to visit the grave, but the cemetery is HUGE with no numbers marked anywhere. I've been advised to go back there when the grave diggers are on tea break and to take a large packet of biscuits with me.
Phil

[Tattyjacket]

I've made some progress but I've come to a bit of a dead end.

I was initially told by my aunt that my grandmother Annie Smith had a previous marriage.....one that I didn't know about and neither did any of my cousins. I have now discovered that she married William Dennis in 1900.
My aunt told me that he died in a colliery accident just a couple of weeks later. Shortly after that, my grandmother discovered that she was pregnant.
This wasn't correct. William died in February 1901 from scarlet fever.
Now, my aunt told me that the baby had been 'given away', a baby boy.
I became interested in a baby that was born in 1901 and was named William John Dennis but this turned out to be the baby of William Dennis' brother.
So......question. Could somebody have had a baby in 1901 and not registered the birth?
Or, could it be that my grandmother never actually had a baby from this first marriage and that my aunt had got her facts wrong?
Phil

[iolaus]

Legally she should have registered him - however you get concealed pregnancies and abandoned babies even these days (admittedly rarely) and the mother doesn't register them

If the baby was stillborn there also wouldn't be a record

[Tattyjacket]

Thanks,
I'm getting more convinced that there actually wasn't a baby. There would have been no need for her to conceal or abandon the baby as she had married the father and looking at the dates had there been any baby it would have arrived over a year after their wedding. She also had the support of her parents.