Two Welsh vicars - father & son, both named David Evans

[Tjapaltjarri]

Thank you Drosybont. Was it 1879 and not 1979 ? Strange that here is no third son on any of the censuses.

[Drosybont]

Yes, sorry, 1879.

Drosybont

[BumbleB]

Ancestry - England Oxford Men and Their Colleges 1880-1892

David Richard Evans, born Wymondham, Norfolk 1869, IS David, cler, Non-Collegiate matric 25 Jan 88, aged 19.  Honours - 3 history 91.

[Drosybont]

They went away to school, that's why they are hard to find.  The youngest was baptised in Llanfor, near Bala, Merioneth, on 3 Feb 1874, abode School House, Sarnau. In 1881 I think he was at Bancroft Hospital Drapers Company School in Mile End Old Town, London, though the birthplace given is incorrect. In 1891 he was a boarder at Christs College, Brecon, where the middle brother was in both 1881 and 1891. In 1901 the youngest was an assistant master at Christs College, Finchley, and he was at the same London address as his middle brother in 1911.  Incidentally, although the two older brothers were born in Norfolk, they were both baptised in Brecon on 13 Aug 1871, abode Orchard Street, Llanfaes.  Maybe the maternal grandparents' address?

Drosybont

[BumbleB]

No wonder I was having problems - I was putting it down to old age 

[Drosybont]

The marriage announcement in the Brecon County Times on 11 May 1867 gives some interesting additional information:  at the time of his marriage David Evans was an Independent minister. He and Mary Davies married at Glamorgan Street Chapel, Brecon.  Link here

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3856296/3856300/19/

Drosybont

[Drosybont]

Norfolk News 24 Nov 1866:  "Wymondham.  Independent Chapel - We understand that the Rev. David Evans of Domgay, Montgomeryshire, has received an invitation to supply the pulpit of this place of worship for four Sundays, with a view to the pastorate."  Domgay is apparently a township in Llandysilio parish, 7 miles east of Llanfyllin.

Drosybont

[Tjapaltjarri]

Ooh my word. That is remarkable sleuthing by Drosybont. Thank you so much for all that hard work. I am thinking that Domgay is a mis-spelling of Dolanog. My friend will be very pleased to hear all this about his great grandparent's brothers and their parents and maternal grandparents Richard (b. ca 1788)& Elizabeth Davies sometime at Sarnau. It is a delightful part of Wales that I have visited several times.

Howard

[Drosybont]

I don't think Domgay is a misspelling of Dolanog.  See this in the Shrewsbury Chronicle 30 Sept 1864:  "Domgay, Montgomeryshire.  The ordination services in connection with the settlement of the Rev. David Evans, late of Brecon College, over the congregational church in this place, were held on Monday and Tuesday, 26th and 27th September."  Later in the same article there is the link to Pontypridd:  "The Rev. H. Oliver, B.A. Pont-y-Pridd, Glamorganshire, Mr. Evans's late pastor, delivered a very powerful and impressive charge to the pastor."  Newspapers are a big help with names like this, especially when they move around so much too.

Drosybont