Thanks All,
Darnity, I will look at the Williams marriages and also came across another Scamp/Williams marriage in Devon that I need to investigate.
trish1120 and Osprey, I am aware of Nelson’s baptism and Thomas Williams Scamp as that is the family I want to know more about. The mother is Clevancy Lee, who died at Defynnog near Brecon. The marriage is listed in Eric Trudgill’s book. Did he continue fathering children with another wife?
I am aware of the funeral, but travellers did not tell the truth, certainly not about their age. There is some confusion, as being an octogenarian fits with the 1829 baptism, but on the oral list, there are 2 called Nelson, possibly father and son. His wife died a few years earlier, which may offer an age. I think she died in Bridgend, but is buried in Swansea and Nelson was buried with her. On census records, he tended not to answer and once gave her name as Nelson also, but I think it was Elizabeth.
Br1gau, I have read many of the articles, but had not seen the one of William Scamp, or Nelson and the bacon. Nelson and Samson are the family I am looking at, as both were Scamps; Nelson baptised as a Scamp, and Samson I have not found. William Scamp I am also aware of, but that was the first mention of him being in Wales, so thanks.
Around that time, there are 3/4 Scamp families in or around Wales from single baptism records, of which some died very young. Some seem to be travelling into Wales from a base in Bristol. I am struggling to find any evidence after that, as Scamp or Williams.
Samson Williams married Gravalina Lee. He and the children are listed on the Scamp oral list of the University of Liverpool. So is Nelson. But there are many on that list, who seem to be brothers and sisters, that I cannot find evidence of.
