Following back the family tree to a miner from the 1780s
William, son of David Jones, Miner, by his wife, Rachel, Cilycwm, 1786. In my previous post , I explained how a combination of ancestry records and DNA matches had helped me to finally 'fill in the blanks' that had long existed on the family tree for my adopted grandfather, Thomas. Thomas' mother's name had been given on his 1880 birth certificate as "Mary Powell formerly Davies, a dairymaid". This dairymaid, Mary, is therefore my great grandmother: My grandfather's birth certificate Jane and David, my second great grandparents Now, as explained in that previous post, if I have put the puzzle pieces together correctly, I am fairly certain that Mary's father must have been David Davies (2GG) , a blacksmith originally from Llanddeusant in the Black Mountain area of what is now the Brecon Beacons National Park. I also believe that he r mother was Jane Davies from Llywel, a village about ten miles from Llanddeusant. However it appears that Jane - who lat...