Anne Jones

2G-grandmother of Norma Margaret Oliver

Born:

c1792 Bettws Bledrws, Cardiganshire, Wales

Married:

1 Mar 1816 St Bledwrs Church, Bettws Bledrws, Cardiganshire, Wales to David Price

Died:

25 Feb 1861 Pentrebach, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, Wales. Age 70

Cause of death:

Old age

Buried:

27 Feb 1861 St Peter's Church, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, Wales

Timeline

c1792

1804-1816

Mar 1816

Apr 1816-1822

1825

1830-1861

Feb 1861

Born at Bettws Bledrws, Cardiganshire, Wales. Lived with family at Llwyn-bobby [1] [2]

Lived with parents on their farm, Maes-y-felin-fach [3] [4]

Married David Price at St Bledrws Church, Bettws Bledrws, Cardiganshire, Wales [5]

Lived with family at Dolaugwyrddon Uchaf, Pentrebach, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, Wales [6] [7a and 7b]

Lived with family at Cwmman, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, Wales [8a and 8b]

Lived with family at Pentrebach, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, Wales [9a and 9b] [10] [11] [12]

Died of old age at home at Pentrebach, Lampeter. Buried at St Peter's Church, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, Wales [12] [13]

Biography

Early years

We know from the 1851 census, that Anne was born in the parish of Bettws Bledrws, near Lampeter, in Cardiganshire, around 1792 [1] . Her birth in this parish is supported by her marriage at the parish church in Bettws Bledrws - it was traditional at the time to marry in the bride's home parish [5].

Bettws Bledrws was a small village - only around 200 inhabitants - located on the road to Tregaron [14]. The parish church was dedicated to St Bledrws. The church register does not record any baptisms between 1786-1793, although it is unlikely there were no baptisms at all during that period, as all other years reliably had at least 2-3 baptisms - this gap in the register just at the time Anne was born makes it difficult to ascertain her parentage.

However, the only Jones family having children in Bettws Bledrws around this time was Thomas Jones, a farmer and churchwarden, and his wife Jane. Norma Margaret Oliver has a DNA link to a descendant of Thomas Jones through his second wife, Elizabeth, supporting that Anne was the daughter of Thomas. The timing of her birth meant her mother was Thomas' first wife, Jane Morgan [2].

The Jones family lived at Llwyn-bobby,"baking bush", a forested area north of Bettws Bledrws. In 1801, Anne's mother Jane died. Thomas re-married later that year to Elizabeth Jones and, by 1804, the family had moved to the farm east of Llwyn-bobby, called Maes-y-felin-fach,"the small mill field" [3] [4].

Bettws Bledrws map 1880s - showing Maes-y-felin-fach and Llwyn-bobby.jpg

OS map of Bettws Bledrws from the 1880s showing Llwyn-bobby and Maes-y-felin-fach

Marriage and life in Pentrebach

At the age of about 24, on the 1st of March 1816, a very heavily pregnant Anne married David Price in her parish church of St Bledrws [5]. Immediately after their marriage, the couple moved to David's home at Pentrebach "small village", about 5 miles south-west of Bettws Bledrws, in the parish of Lampeter. It was there, in the farmhouse at Dolaugwyrddon-uchaf, "the high green meadow", that she gave birth to their eldest son, John, who was baptised on the 14th of April 1816 [6].

St Bledrws Church, Bettws Bledrws, Cardiganshire

In those early days, David farmed and laboured at Dolaugwyrddon-uchaf. The family lived there for at least four years, having another child - a son David - in 1822 [7a and 7b].

Dolau Farmhouse, Dolaugwrddon Uchaf, Pentrebach, Lampeter SA48 7JR.jpg

Farmhouse at Dolaugwyrddon Uchaf, Pentrebach, Lampeter, Cardiganshire

Map of Lampeter and surrounds showing Pentre-bach Cwmman Fronbedr and Dolaugwyrddon-uchaf.

Map of area surrounding Lampeter. Dolaugwyrddon Uchaf marked with green pin

In 1825, Anne and David lived at Cwmman, a hamlet south-east of Lampeter, just across the River Telfi but, by 1830, they had returned back to Pentrebach [8a and 8b] [9a and 9b].

David farmed at Pentrebach and we know from the 1851 census that the farm was 18 acres [10 [11]. It was an important place to the family, so much so that David's great-great-granddaughter was able to recall the name over 150 years later in the 1990s (although, by that time, her memory had corrupted it slightly to "Penprybach") [15].

Death of Anne

Anne passed away at Pentrebach on the 25th of February 1861. She was recorded as being 70 years of age at the time of her death, and the cause of death was given as old age [12].

She was buried two days later, at St Peter's Church in Lampeter [13].

Source information

Anne Price [1851], Census return for Pentrebach, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, The National Archives of the UK, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
Thomas Jones and wife Jane Morgan were the only Jones family producing children in Bettws Bledrws at the time of Anne’s birth. Baptismal records for their children John (1786) and Jane (1799) confirm they resided at Llwyn-bobby. Norma Margaret Oliver also has a DNA link (18cM) to a descendent of Thomas Jones’ son, Thomas junior, through his second wife, Elizabeth Jones.
Obituary for Thomas Jones, The Cambrian, Aug 1891. Confirmed family was living at Maes-y-felin-fach by 1804.
Thomas Jones, Burial record, St Bledrws Bettws Bledrws Parish Register [Church of England], 25 Jun 1819, Record no: 43, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]. Died at Maes-y-felin-fach, supporting that he and his family lived at the property between 1804-1819.
David Price and Anne Jones, Marriage record, St Bledrws Bettws Blerws Parish Register [Church of England], 1 Mar 1816, Record no: 9, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
John Price, Baptismal record, St Peter Lampeter Parish Register [Church of England], 14 Apr 1816, Record no: 46, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
David Price [page 1 and page 2], Baptismal record, Tabernacle Chapel Lampeter Parish Register [Calvinist Methodist], 8 Dec 1822, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
Ebenezer Price [page 1 and page 2], Baptismal record, Tabernacle Chapel Lampeter Parish Register [Calvinist Methodist], 8 Aug 1825, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
Mary Price [page 1 and page 2], Baptismal record, Tabernacle Chapel Lampeter Parish Register [Calvinist Methodist], 20 Jun 1830, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
Ann Price [1841], Census return for Pentrebach, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, The National Archives of the UK, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
Anne Price [1851], Census return for Pentrebach, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, The National Archives of the UK, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
Anne Price, England & Wales Death Certificate, Registered 1st Quarter 1861 in Lampeter, Record no: 366, General Register Office [www.gro.gov.uk]
Anne Price, Burial record, St Peter Lampeter Parish Register [Church of England], 27 Feb 1861, Record no: 198, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
Betws Bledrws, Genuki [genuki.org.uk]
Conversations with Norma Margaret Oliver, daughter of Ellen Ruby Price Lane