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Morning Roy,

This sounds like the family in the 1871 census:

RG 10 / 5388 F38 P17

EDIT! Add address - Deri Newydd, Brithdir.

Thomas DANIEL, Head, Mar., 69, Coal Miner, born Glamorgan Rudry
Ann DANIEL, Wife, Mar, 40, born Glamorgan Eglwsilian
Thomas DANIEL, Son, Unm, Coal Miner, born Monmouth Mynyddislwyn

Regards,
Lee.

Hi Lynda,

I do apologise - I've got the most undisciplined mind in the world; I get side-tracked very easily when I run across a name or place that I think is familiar. It sometimes leads to a remote family connection or, more often, spends weeks following a paper trail to nowhere. I thoroughly enjoy the journey but am mostly disappointed with the results. I also tend to forget that other people don't have all day and every day to meander around their family research. So, if I say that I'm going to post back and it looks as if I've forgotten then, please, give me a (figurative) nudge to remind me! 

Back to the burials:

David LANGDON, of Pentrechwyth, buried at Llansamlet 27 Feb 1886; age 60. The age and place tie in with this being the son of William and Rachel.
 
According to FreeBMD, David LANGDON married Ann DANIEL 4Q 1858 Neath 11a 644. I had a choice of Ann DANIEL or Catherine DAVIES; I finally picked Ann because an Ann LANGDON, of Foxhole, was buried in Llansamlet 04 Dec 1869; age 43. This seems to tally - right area and age and the 1871 census shows David to be a widower. There is no death registered for a Catherine LANGDON in the right time-frame.

The death of a Rachel LANGDON was registered (FreeBMD again) 3Q 1871 Neath 11a 301; age 12. There was a daughter, 12 year-old Rachel LANGDON, living with widower David in the 1871 census. This also tallies with a burial on 27 Aug 1871 of a Rachel LANGDON, of Pentrechwyth,  at Llansamlet; the age in the burial index is, however, given as 13M. There appears to be no Rachel LANGDON birth listed anywhere in England & Wales in 1870.

.... and there's more to come!

Regards,
Lee.

But there again...

I've stumbled over some Llansamlet burials which stir the  pot again:

- William LANGDON, buried 23 July 1855 aged 61, address Cnap Goch. The age tallies well with the information that we already have for your William. This burial also agrees with the fact that, in censuses, William was alive in 1851 but dead in 1861.

- Rachel LANGDON, buried 03 July 1869 aged 62, address Foxhole (which agrees with her last-known address in 1861). But if that age is correct, then Rachel was born around 1806/7! But her age in the 1861 census was given as 64, meaning that the death age should have been about 72 if the census age is correct; I have no reason to believe that the 1861 census age is wrong because it agrees with the two earlier censuses. The death age of this Rachel is given as 61 in FreeBMD and the GRO index. I suggest that you treat this Rachel as a 'maybe' on the grounds that the information from the original informant was inaccurate - or that this could be rogue Rachel having nothing, at this stage, to do with your LANGDON family.

Isn't this fun?  
Lee.

Possible Humphrey sighting!

Marriage between Humphrey LANGAN and Elizabeth TOPHAM 12 September 1779, by banns, at St Mary's Church, Swansea; both of parish.

"Humphrey" in South Wales is not quite as rare as hen's teeth but not far off, so one that has a surname close to LANGDON is worth taking seriously. William and Rachel show up as LONGTON quite regularly in the censuses.

Regards,
Lee.

Error - I should have written LONGDON not LONGTON.