Mourners and bearers: funeral reports

Funeral reports can be very useful in understanding family trees and relationships. As with other types of records, they need to be checked for accuracy. Someone named in a report as a cousin or aunt might turn out to be just a close family friend. Here below are two reports. The first is of the funeral of David Jones, the Ferryside coxswain, held in 1927; the second is of Annie Jones Fernhill at her death in 1933.

1. Carmarthen Journal 16.12.1927