Absalom Rees & daughter Daisy Rees possibly of Swansea?

[avm228]

Looking at it further, the Rees/Powell children in Gloucester seem to have been as follows:

Jun qtr 1893: William Robert Edward (died Dec qtr 1896 aged 3)
Mar qtr 1895: Caroline Emily
Dec qtr 1897: Sophia (died Jun qtr 1898 aged 0 as Sophia Reece)

Likely death for their mother: Sophia Rees aged 23, Dec qtr 1897 Gloucester.

[avm228]

Found in 1901: “Daisey Reese”, 6 b Gloucester, with Wm E Reese and his wife Rose Ellen as “niece”. (Transcriptions of the surname vary - Reece/Reese - but it looks to me like Reese). RG13/2428/29/10.

This man was in fact William Edwin Rees, brother of Absalom Henry Rees.  On each of the following Gloucester marriages the brothers named their father as Robert Edward Rees, a shipwright:

30 Aug 1891: Absalom Henry Rees to Sophia Powell
30 May 1898: William Edwin Rees to Rose Ellen Smith
28 Nov 1903: Absalom Henry Rees to Clara Benger Smart


I suggest that “Daisey” is Absalom and Sophia’s motherless and only surviving child, officially Caroline but for whatever reason now known as Daisy, staying or living with her uncle and aunt.

[despair]

I agree with avm228 re Caroline Emily.
The Daisy Emma Rees,daughter of Thomas and Mary,marries in London in 1920 and is with her parents in 1939.
I haven’t found the candidate family in 1901 either,but as said ,in 1911,Absalom in Risca is described as a labourer,while Clara is in Gloucestershire.

Regards
 Roger

[despair]

There are newspaper reports re Absalom and Rose Ellen in 1910.

Regards
Roger

[avm228]

There are newspaper reports re Absalom and Rose Ellen in 1910.

Yes I see.  Rose Ellen complained to the court that when they had met on Barton St in Gloucester one night, her brother-in-law Absalom had struck her on the shoulder and said he would “bleed her to death”, and Clara had sworn at her.  Perhaps it was this sort of thing that motivated William Edwin and Rose Ellen to move to the Pontardawe area by 1911? I wonder whether they brought Daisy up.  They don’t seem to have had children of their own, at least by that stage.

Absalom and Clara came before the court in Gloucester again in 1919, accused of slander, but not in connection with their relatives.

[goatfish77]

Fantastic, thank you all who checked this out for me! So not much Welsh blood in me after all. Now to trace the Irish side.