Individual Details

1. Birth Register David JONES Registered at Crickenhowell on 21 May 1839 Volume 26 Page 290

2. Wales Census 6 June 1841: Penrhys Llanhilleth Monmouthshire Parish Llanhilleth Emuneration District 24 Class HO107 Piece 743 Book 8 Folio 11 Page Number 13 Line 18 GSU Roll 438843 13

3. Wales Census 6 June 1841: Penrhys Llanhilleth Monmouthshire Parish Llanhilleth Emuneration District 24 Class HO107 Piece 743 Book 8 Folio 11 Page Number 13 Line 18 GSU Roll 438843 13

4. Wales Census 30 March 1851: The Argoed Llanhilleth Monmouthshire District Pontypool: Sub District Pontypool Emuneration District 1a Piece 2449 Folio 13 Schedule 63 Page Number 18 18

5. Personal Knowledge David JONES Born/age 21 May 1839 on/during 1868 Stone Mason who possibly built cottages at Troedrhiwfuwch Provided by the Personal knowledge of Gail Denise BEMBRIDGE (JONES)

6. Wales Census 3 April 1881: 17, High Street Troedrhiwfuwch Glamorgan District Merthyr Tydfil: Sub District Gelligaer Piece 5307 Folio 105 Page Number 6 6

7. Wales Census 3 April 1881: 17, High Street Troedrhiwfuwch Glamorgan District Merthyr Tydfil: Sub District Gelligaer Piece 5307 Folio 105 Page Number 6 6

8. Personal Knowledge David JONES Born/age 21 May 1839 on/during 13 October 1884 Died of Cirrhosis of the Liver Note by Gail Denise BEMBRIDGE (JONES) I have not found David on the 1861 or 1871 census, he could be working away somewhere with Joseph Palmer (husband of his sister Ann). In 1874 he must have been over at St. Dogwells because that is when his first daughter was born. I have not yet found a marriage there though. Frances was 19 in 1874, David was 35. In October 1884 when he died, his eldest daughter Elizabeth Anne (aged 8) registered his death. he is buried at Rhymney Churchyard along with his two youngest daughters, there does not appear to be a headstone, so obviously his father (Jones the Gof) did not spend out on a headstone for him, and his own family would have been too poor to buy one. Where was his wife Frances, why didn't she register his death? At the beginning of December 1884 David Jones Senior, re-wrote his Will, and dead David is just mentioned as son David and not "beloved" son/daughter as the other children are called. One gets the feeling that there had been some family trouble. In the Will the children of dead David are left the 5 cottages at High Street, Troedrhiwfuwch, once they got to be 21 years of age. Up until then, (Lizzie Ann would have been 21 in 1895) they would have equal payments of the rents at intervals, the rents being supervised by William Rowlands and then Mr Prynne the rent collector, and yet these 2 were allowed by the Will to deduct their expenses from the rents. According to family tradition, there was hardly ever any rent money to receive. It had always been spent of repairs etc. At the end of December 1884, Frances married Thomas Holmes at the Cardiff Register Office. Did David die of drowning his sorrows in drink because his wife had left him for another man, or did Frances leave him for another man because of his drinking? She married Thomas Holmes six weeks after David’s death. Provided by the Personal knowledge of Gail Denise BEMBRIDGE (JONES)

9. Death Register David JONES Born 21 May 1849 : Died 12 October 1884 Registered at Camarthenshire Volume 11a Page 498 Comments : Died Of Cirrhosis Of The Liver

10. Burials David JONES Born 21 May 1839 Died on 13 October 1884 Buried 27 October 1884 at Rhymney, Monmouth Source: Monmouthshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1551-1994

11. Marriage Certificate Monmouthshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1551-1994: Page 160 Entry 319 On 23 December 1901 at Llanhilleth Parish Church David JONES: age 23 a Single person of Llanhilleth, Monmouthshire a Coal Haulier married Maud COBBETT age 19 a Single person of Llanhilleth, Monmouthshire in the presence of Elizabeth Ann JONES (Sister of David JONES) and John COBBETT (Brother of Maud COBBETT): The Husbands Father is David JONES: shown as a Deceased: The Wifes Father is John COBBETT is shown as a Collier