Rhosgoch
Greeting form the Tywi Valley. At last I find a fellow traveller in the search for ones ancestors.
First I refer to the Rev William Morgan of whom I have a biography and series of sermons put together by his son John Lloyd Morgan, barrister and Liberal MP for the county of Carmarthenshire in the early 1900’s.
The first page (see below) indicates the connection but needs a little adjustment to fit the pieces in place.
LIFE OF THE REV. W.MORGAN
CHAPTER I.
Birth and Parentage.—Early Life.—Business Experiences.— College Course.—Settlement in the Ministry.
WILLIAM MORGAN, the second son of David and Elizabeth Morgan, was born on the 22nd of August, 1818, at a farm called Forge, which was built upon the site of an old abbey, called Whitland Abbey, in the county of Carmarthen. His ancestors were puritans of that good old stock which has done so much for the evangelization and general welfare of the Principality of Wales.
In 1774 his grandfather, John Morgan, of Forge, became a member of the Independent Church at
Henllan, and was the first of that branch of the family who joined that body, his parents being members of the Established Church. But on his grand-mothers side his Nonconformist ancestry can be traced to a much earlier period.
So I shall have to increase my efforts to have the jigsaw set in place!
I move on to Lizzie Lloyd Morgan who I have spent many an hour endeavouring to follow her journey through life after the tragic loss of her mother. Am I right in recording that she married twice. Firstly a John Rowlands of whom she had two children Wilmot and John, and John Snr died in 1887.
Her second husband Thomas James with whom she had five children Martha, Thomas, Ben, Margaret and Edith, the last three children being born in Middlesex. She then for me vanishes off “the radar” and in my notes I query her going to live in Canada! Also in my notes I have her, in her early years, at private school in Narberth, then a governess with an artist in the north of England.
Or were there more than one Lizzie Lord Morgan around at the time?
I now must retreat to bed but look forward to further Rootschats