Hello Malcolm
I am so pleased to read your posts regarding your researches into OUR family! Yes, I am related to you. My great grandfather was Daniel Davies and his wife Ann was my great grandmother. Their daughter Eliza (or Elizabeth, there is some confusion) was my grandmother , born in 1873 (although the 1911 census record says 1875, which is wrong!) and I lived with her, my mother and aunt (two of her daughters) in Brighton also with my father. I speak it my shame that whilst I acquired Welsh as a child (when my English Dad was at work!), as a stubborn child I singularly refused to speak it to them. How I regret that now!
I have researched this branch of the family but mainly from the marriage of Elizabeth to Evan Nathaniel Thomas in 1892.
However, when I was young and in the afternoons, the three of them my mother, aunt and grandma ('Mam Mumps' as I called her) would frequently talk about 'y hen wlad', meaning, of course, their young life in Lampeter. They often talked about 'Aunty Hannah', or their cousin Hereward (although I now believe he once removed. I didn't know where Blaenwern was, but when we visited in the 1960s, Hannah Jane was living there, I believe. They also mentioned Whibynog farm, but I think it was mainly my Aunty Nancy (Ann Mary) who would visit or play with the children there. How they got there from Lampeter I have no idea.
I will be delighted to share my researches on this branch of the Davies family with you.
Best regards
Tony Hagon