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Hello Barbara - I received your PM.
I am not related in any way - the pic you can see is my father and his family!
Just a tip - do not mark anything as 'answered' unless your query is finished with.
Jan x

Hello
I am most grateful for such helpful replies about Jacob Owen from Mwnt/ Meont in Cardiganshire. It has helped me such a lot in my search for my Welsh ancestors and taken me back a further stage.

Jacob was born in 1818 and moved to Ebbw Vale where in 1840 he married Mary Lewis and together they had 7 children. They lived in Ebbw Vale, originally in ' houses near the pit' moved to ' houses near the Methodist Chapel' then to 'Slopes of Forge Row' which must be the steepest road I have ever walked up before moving to chapel Ros then 14,Penuel Square.

He worked as a railman at the steelworks, became a rail overman and retired age 63 as a rail inspector. I guess they were making rails for railways but I don't yet know.

Jacob and Mary a Lewis had 7 children, Benjamin. is my ancestor.

If anyone out there has any information please do get in touch

Once again thank you for help

Barbara :-)

Hello Barbara and welcome to the Community Boards.






Note: I'll let Barbara know that she has replies to her query. :-)

Lack of opportunity of work in his home village?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mwnt

Grooms Last Name:Owens
Grooms First Name:Jacob (Bachelor. Railman)
Grooms Fathers First Name:Benjamin (Labourer)
Grooms Fathers Last Name:Owens
Grooms Parish:
Grooms Age:Full
Brides Last Name:Lewis
Brides First Name:Mary (Spinster)
Brides Fathers First Name:Edmund (Farmer)
Brides Fathers Last Name:Lewis
Brides Parish:
Brides Age:Full
County:Monmouthshire
Place / Parish:Bedwellty
Marriage Year:1840
Marriage Month:Mar
Marriage Day:30
Record source:Monmouthshire Marriages - Transcripts
Data provider:Welsh Archive Services / Gwasanaethau Archifau Cymru
(Residence at time for both, Ebbw Vale. Wits. John Thomas. Anne Lewis)

(if above)

Chris :)

There was a lot of movement, even well before this time. Our ancestors did not always stay in the same village for generations.

People move to London ......... the streets were "paved with gold"!


However, that movement increased in the mid19th century as the Industrial Revolution occurred, and people moved from the countryside and agricultural endeavors to the towns ..................... the steel works in Wales, the cotton mills in Lancashire, the woollen mills in Yorkshire, shipbuilding, etc etc


It only needed one person to move, get a job and begin to make good money, and then others from the same village, both relations and friends, would also move.

My own ancestors moved from 3 small villages in Buckinghamshire where they were agricultural labourers and lace makers to around Durham / Newcastle and into the Lancashire cotton towns beginning in the 1860s.

I have people in my tree who moved to South Wales from Wiltshire in 1850/1860's.
I would think they moved to find work as the area industrialised with coal and metal works.

Andy

Hello. I'm researching my Owens family who worked in the Ebbw Vale Steelworks. I've got back to Jacob Owens who came from Mwnt or Meont in Cardiganshire.

Does anyone know anything about the area and the people who lived there?

I wondered how he heard about the work and how he travelled all that way as such a young man to start a new life.

Any help or information would be really appreciated. Thank you :-)