The Davis family lived in Blaenavon in 1841. Blaenavon is a village in the parish of Llanover, upper division of the hundred of Abergavenny, county of Monmouth; four miles from Brynmawr, six from Pontypool, and a like distance from Abergavenny. The male members of the Davis clan were iron workers and there were very extensive iron works there.
Interestingly, my future great, great grandmother, Elizabeth Rhydderch, lived just 5 miles up the road in Govilon and shows up on the 1851 Wales census there. By 1851, the Davis family had moved a few miles away to Trevethin near Pontypool. But, I wonder, did the two children possibly attend the same school for a short time? Were they perhaps childhood sweathearts who found their way back to each other nearly two decades later? Something to ponder, especially since if they hadn't met, I might not be here!!!
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