EVANS / WILSON LLANGYNOG

[Morganllan]

Is this the family in 1901?
4 Thomas St, Merthyr Vale

Robert Evans Head age 37 born Llangynog  Coal hewer
Hannah M Evans Wife age 31 born Merthyr Vale
Robert B Evans Son age 11 born Merthyr Vale
Hannah M Evans Dau age 6 born Merthyr Vale
William J Evans Son age 3 born Merthyr Vale
David J Evans Son age 1 born Merthyr Vale
Thomas Moses Boarder age 40  Coal hewer
Thomas Jones Boarder age 31  Coal hewer
Edward Jenkins Boarder age 39  Coal hewer

RG13 Piece 5026 Folio 98 Page 18

[Morganllan]

and strange list in 1891, at 17 Thomas St, Merthyr Vale

Robert Evans Head Married age 26 Collier born Llangynog
Robert Evans Boarder Married age 47 Collier born Llangynog
William Evans Boarder age 19 Collier born Llangynog
David Evans Boarder age 17 Collier born Llangynog
Thomas Evans Boarder age 46 born Penybont Fawr
Mary Williams Mother Widow age 60 born Blaenffos, Pembrokeshire
Margaret Blake Cousin age 18 Servant born Aberteifi, Cardiganshire
Richard Francis Jones Boarder age 19  Collier born Corris
John Vincent Boarder age 22 Boarder Collier  born Pennal

RG12 Piece 4434 Folio 35 Page 20

Just trying to establish that this is the correct Evans family 

[DavidN]

I hope this will answer your various questions:

ALFRED WILSON place of birth on his Army Medical Papers is given as Llangynog and it is Llangynog on the 1911 census; so, even if he wasn't born there, he would seem to have a connection with that place.

Much of the information I have about him came from his daughter, my late mother (his youngest daughter is still living in Oldham). She told me that his father's name was ROBERT and that his mother's name was JANE EVANS. While he was away serving in the Royal Artillery, she was going through his drawers, as you do, and found a piece of paper with a list of names on it; she remembered ROBERT, WILLIAM, EVAN, OWEN. These, she was told by my grandmother, were her father's brothers; some of them, she thought, were called EVANS. ROBERT, she was told, had been killed in action in WW1.

The only ROBERT from Llangynog to be killed in WW1 is ROBERT EVANS of Tynewydd, Llangynog and he is commemorated in the Memorial Hall, Llangynog and also on the War Memorial in Merthyr Tydfil, (so the 1891 and 1901 census extracts you quoted are the right family).

On his wedding certificate (registry office) the name of his father is given as ROBERT WILSON, a miner. ALFRED WILSON called his eldest son ROBERT, although, perhaps rather unexpectedly, his first daughter was called ALICE; the next daughter was JANE.

Thank you for your interest in this Post.