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United States of America / Re: Peter Christmas Evans
« on: Saturday 15 March 14 13:44 GMT (UK) »
Hello folks
I was doing a search for a Peter Christmas Evans today, and your messages came up on Rootschat. Could you please fill me in on the link with him, as I have been following various Evans links, very carefully, who fit in with my research.
The Peter Christmas Evans I am looking at was born in 1854, in Bersham, near Wrexham, North Wales, with his birth registered in Wrexham, and was a brother of Samuel Evans (born 1847/1848). They were among 5 children of Peter Evans and his wife Rebecca (nee Williams), and Samuel married Caroline Davey Humphreys in 1874 in Caernarvon, living in Llanbeblig most of their life, also in North Wales.
My original quest was to find out more about this branch of the Evans family, as Caroline and Samuel had 12 children by the time of the UK 1911 census, 7 of whom died in childhood before this date, and others died in early adulthood - very sad. I come from South Wales, and in the family archives is an obituary card for one of the daughters (Mary Caroline Evans) who died, and was buried aged 17 in Risca, Monmouthshire, South Wales in 1893. Another daughter died aged 5 a few months later in 1894 in the same area.
What has puzzled me is: why did "my" Evans family in rural Monmouthshire where people didn't travel far afield, have this obituary card for a girl well away from her home area (at least 150 miles and a very difficult and indirect journey at the time), as I can't find any family connection at all with the 2 Evans groups?
If anyone can shed any light on this query, I should be very grateful as it is really annoying me, not to be able to find a direct link, even going back 2 more generations!!
Many thanks.......
I was doing a search for a Peter Christmas Evans today, and your messages came up on Rootschat. Could you please fill me in on the link with him, as I have been following various Evans links, very carefully, who fit in with my research.
The Peter Christmas Evans I am looking at was born in 1854, in Bersham, near Wrexham, North Wales, with his birth registered in Wrexham, and was a brother of Samuel Evans (born 1847/1848). They were among 5 children of Peter Evans and his wife Rebecca (nee Williams), and Samuel married Caroline Davey Humphreys in 1874 in Caernarvon, living in Llanbeblig most of their life, also in North Wales.
My original quest was to find out more about this branch of the Evans family, as Caroline and Samuel had 12 children by the time of the UK 1911 census, 7 of whom died in childhood before this date, and others died in early adulthood - very sad. I come from South Wales, and in the family archives is an obituary card for one of the daughters (Mary Caroline Evans) who died, and was buried aged 17 in Risca, Monmouthshire, South Wales in 1893. Another daughter died aged 5 a few months later in 1894 in the same area.
What has puzzled me is: why did "my" Evans family in rural Monmouthshire where people didn't travel far afield, have this obituary card for a girl well away from her home area (at least 150 miles and a very difficult and indirect journey at the time), as I can't find any family connection at all with the 2 Evans groups?
If anyone can shed any light on this query, I should be very grateful as it is really annoying me, not to be able to find a direct link, even going back 2 more generations!!
Many thanks.......