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You say you haven't found a death for their mother so could it be that she remarried to someone called Webb?

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England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966

Name:
William Mayers

Probate Date:
15 May 1923

Death Date:
21 Jan 1923

Death Place:
Monmouthshire, Wales

Registry:
Llandaff

of 79 High Street, Blaenavon
Probate to Isaac William Jordan Colliery overman

Effects - £525 13s 7d

The 1851 Census shows coal miner John Mayers living in Little Lane Trevethin with his wife Mary (nee' Bowen) and their two sons John Bowen Mayers born 19 Apr 1846 in Trevethin and younger brother William. I have no record of the death of Mary but John died of Pthisis in 1863. So there maybe a reason why the 1861 Census shows William Mayers then 10 living with his grandmother Elizabeth Bowen a bit further west in Buthchers Row Cadoxton Juxta Neath with two of Elizabeth's children - son Ebenezer Bowen a 22 yr old butcher and a John Bowen a 19 yr old collier. A marriage cert for 4 July 1871 shows William Mayers of Trevethin,son of John Mayers Collier (no mention of deceased) marrying Mary Price, both aged 21 in the Parish Church at Trevethin; no Mayers acted as witness. By 1871 William's older brother John Bowen Mayers was living in KIdderminster Rd Stourport with his wife Eliza and ten years later JBM and Eliza were still in the West Midlands at Comberton Rd. In 1886 John Bowen Mayers obtained probate on his 23 years deceased father's estate swearing as the "only child and only next of kin". But surely brother William was alive and well?
In 1891 there is a 38 yr old coal miner William Mayers living in King Str Llanover Blaenavon with his wife Mary a year older, and 5 children. By 1901 they seem to have moved to High Street Blaenavon AND to have added the name WEBB, so that it is now William Webb Mayers. in 1911 they were at 79 High Street.

Was that 1891 William Mayers living in Llanover, with his family, the brother of the John Bowen Mayers who married Eliza Poole?
Has anyone a clue as to why William would have added the name Webb before his surname Mayers?
I would also be grateful for any signs of the date/cause of Mary Bowen's death.

Guy