I am trying to find a record of a death / burial of Harriet Davies ( or Harriet Ann Davies ) around 1857 to 1861. She was born around 1828. Her husband/partner was William Heritage who died in Brynmawr,aged 30 in 1857 of smallpox. Their two little girls, Mary Ann born 1855 and Sophia, born March 1857, were taken to Kington Hfd. workhouse and recorded there on the 1861 census. The workhouse records are in a very poor condition. A family tale says that the girls were found on a bridge near Abergavenny. The 1861 census says the girls came from Llangattock, Brecs. - just down the mountain from Brynmawr. I don't know if Harriet died in childbirth in 1857, or whether she and the girls went first to Abergavenny workhouse and then to Herefordshire. Harriet was not in the KIngton workhouse with her girls. Would Kington have accepted them if there was no Herefordshire link? The girls were known with the surname Davies in Kington but on leaving in their early teens both took their father's surname, Heritage.
