Gentleman Jim Jones' family tree

This is a simplified family tree for Jim Jones Fernhill. The tree has largely been constructed from information contained in Wills, census returns, parish registers, birth, marriage and death certificates, as well as with considerable help from the Llansteffan historian, Alun Davies. See also Alcwyn Evans' pedigree of the Morris family on this site.

Elizabeth = same person

Penhen/Llwyn

William David Morris (d.1785) married Elizabeth ? They rented Penhen from 1767. They had five daughters (Margaret, Maria, Hannah, Elizabeth and Elinor) and a son William, who follows next:

William Morris (1771-1846) married Sarah Thomas b.1781 in June 1808, the daughter of David and Susan Thomas (nee Francis of Coch-y-barlys) of Greencastle. Information on this marriage came from Alcwyn Evans’ pedigree for the Thomas and Morris families (see the Morris pedigree on page on this site) and from the Llettypenhen, Llangain Deeds (Bludworth Papers GB 0211) DD68/1 at Carmarthenshire Archives. William and Sarah bought Penhen c1808. They had eight children, on whom see the Morris pedigree on this site. Of these,

1. William b.1809, farmed Werncorgam Fawr (1841). He married Joyce Evans b.1814 of Pen-y-maes, St. Ishmaels. They lived at Werncorgam Fawr (1851) and then at Llwyn (1861, 1871). They had:

o William Morris (1848-1907) who married Elizabeth Jones (1847-1907) of Penyclun on February 14 1869 at Carmarthen registry office. From at least 1881, they farmed Llwyn and had (1) Elizabeth b.1873 who married Rev.Evan Jones, vicar of Llangain in February 1903. Elizabeth was a first cousin to Jim Jones Fernhill. (2) Margaret Joyce b.1880 who married her cousin David Lloyd Davies of Clyn-mawr and Llwynddu

o Elizabeth who married Henry Jones of Gwar-wenallt.

2. David (1821-1896) who married Jane Davies (1840-1907) of Nantyrhebog, in November 1858 in Llangynog. Jane was the daughter of T. Davies of Nantyrhebog, Llangynog. Jones (1970) describes Nantyrhebog as a mansion and “home of the ancient stock of Protheroe” in Tudor times. By the 1800s, it was a major farm of some 250 acres (1881). There was another Morris link to Nantyrhebog: when Thomas Morris of Clomendy made his Will in 1790, one of those he entrusted with making an inventory of his possesions was David Thomas of Nantyrhebog.

David and Jane farmed Penhen. Their children included:

o James (1866-1934) who succeeded them at Penhen. In 1919, he married Ellen Josiah (1897-1982); there were no children.

o William (1860-1932), who in 1911 was working on Penhen with James. Unmarried.

o David (1868-1947) a farmer of Church House, Llangain (1901, 1911). He married Mary Anne (Davies?) (1873-1933) of Llanfynydd in 1906. They had Mary Jane b.1907.

o Thomas (1863-c1897), unmarried. Died at Green Castle.

o Anne, who married Thomas Williams of Pontcarreg in 1903.

3. Elizabeth (1811-1867) who married Richard Morris (1806-1890) of Clomendy. Their daughter, Rachel b.1839, married Richard Jones of Penyclun. Besides Rachel, Richard and Elizabeth had Sarah (1843-1926), Margaret (1846-1915) and Eliza (1852-1935) (all unmarried who lived with their father on The Green, Llansteffan, after he left Clomendy in the 1870s) and William b.1847, who seems to have died in 1875.

Penhen was inherited by Myra Lloyd-Davies of Llwyndu.

David and Jane Morris, together with their sons William, Thomas, David and James, are buried in Llangain churchyard in a simple but imposing family grave that, in terms of graveyard heirarchy, matches, if not betters, the family grave of the Gwyns of Plas Cwrthir.

Penyclun

James and Ann Jones (both born c1813; James is shown as a widower in 1871) farmed Penyclun from at least 1851, but were not there in 1841; however, the birth place given on census returns for their two children born in the 1830s is Llanstephan and Llangain. They had seven children: William, Mary, Elizabeth, Richard, James, Margaret and Ann. Of these:

1. William b.1838 worked on Penyclun with his parents before moving to work for his widowed sister, Margaret Lloyd at Clyn-mawr (1881) and then to live with his unmarried niece, Margaret Joyce Morris, at Llwyn (1911). She was the daughter of his sister, Elizabeth, who had married William Morris in 1869. Margaret Joyce would later marry her cousin, David William Lloyd Davies (see below).

2. Mary (1842-1909) m. Peter Bowen, a builder of Llanybri, in February 1876. He was the son of Joseph Bowen, a farmer and sometime landlord of the Farmers’ Arms in Llanybri. Peter, who had built the board school in Llanybri the previous year, and Mary lived at Bryn Arlais, Llansteffan, and had Elizabeth (1877-1953) and Hannah Jane (b.1879), who were milliners in Llansteffan until the early 1950s.

3. Richard (1839-1906) married (1) Rachel Morris (1839-1874) of Clomendy farm, Llangain, on August 12 1862 and, secondly, (2) Margaret Davies (1845-1914). Richard farmed Pentrewyman, just south of Fernhill. The two marriages produced eleven children over some twenty years. They were:

o James “Jim” Jones (1864-1942), the eldest child, who married Annie Williams and lived at Tirbach, Pentowyn, Fernhill and Mount Pleasant, and had Idris.

o Ann.

o Richard (1873-1901), worked on Pentrewyman until at least 1891 and then as a cattle man on Bremenda Uchaf farm, near Llanarthne. Killed in an accident on September 20 1901 – see Note 11 above for details.

o Rachel (b.1874), “Aunt Rach Morgan” in The Peaches, who worked on Pentrewyman for her father and and then for her brother, David. She farmed it in her own right from c1919 until c1929. Unmarried, and had Albert.

o David (1879-1943), who farmed Pentrewyman from at least 1911 to 1919, Dolaumeinion (1919-1930) and then Ffynnonfair, Llansteffan. In 1919, David married Lettice Maud Evans of Waunfwlchan (1889-1978).

o Mary (b.1880), who married Henry Davies and lived at Pwntan-bach (14 acres), just north of Llangain. They had Olwen and Les.

o John b.1881.

o Margaret b.1882. She was almost certainly the cook at Pentowyn for Jim and Annie (1901 census).

o Elizabeth (1884-1937).

o Jane (1885-1914).

o Sarah (b.1887), who married Daniel Thomas Evans B.Sc., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Evans of Port Talbot, in October 1926. For more on Daniel, see http://www.historicalporttalbot.com/blogging-port-talbot/poetry-and-port-talbot

4. Margaret (1844-1936) married Thomas Lloyd (1843-1871) of Graig farm, Llangynog, on October 8 1864. Thomas was the son of John and Mary Lloyd of Graig farm; Mary was the sister of John Williams Pen-y-coed, Dylan’s great-great grandfather. Thomas and Margaret farmed Clyn-mawr, and had Mary and Margaretta, both unmarried. In 1884, Margaret married, secondly, William Davies (1854-1932) of Llwyncelyn, a 13 acre farm in Llangain, and they continued at Clyn-mawr. They had a son, David William Lloyd Davies (1886-1973). In 1918, he married his cousin, Margaret Joyce Morris (1880-1957) of neighbouring Llwyn farm. In 1920, David and Margaret had a daughter, Myra, and they farmed Redcourt, alongside the A40, from 1926. David’s parents, William and Margaret, also acquired Llwynddu in 1926 and lived there for most of the 1930s, together with David’s half- sisters, Mary and Margaretta,. David and Margaret moved in during the early 1950s. Myra inherited Llwynddu, Llwyn, Clyn-mawr and Penhen. She died in 2005. For more on Llwynddu, with photos, see Haydn Williams (2007).

5. Elizabeth (1847-1907) married William Morris (1848-1907) on February 14 1869 at Carmarthen registry office. He was a grandson of Penhen, and son of William and Joyce Morris of Llwyn. By 1881, William and Elizabeth had taken over Llwyn, and had (1) Elizabeth b.1873 who married Rev. Evan Jones, vicar of Llangain in February 1903; Elizabeth was a first cousin to Jim Jones Fernhill. (2) Margaret Joyce b.1880 who married her cousin, David William Lloyd Davies of Clyn-mawr.

6. James (1850-1914), unmarried, farmed Penyclun after his parents until at least 1911. The farm went out of the family in 1918.

7. Ann (b.1854), who married Thomas Thomas b.1847, and farmed Wauncorgam-fawr, Llangain, to about 1914, having previously farmed Ty Gwyn (1881) on the A40, and Bwlch, Abergwili (1891 and 1901). Their children included William J. b.1875, David R. b.1877, Mary A. b.1878 and Albert b.1881.

Clomendy

Thomas Morris and his wife Margaret farmed Clomendy in the second half of the 1700s. Thomas died in 1790. Their children included Richard, Thomas, Benjamin, Morris, Anne, Hannah and Eleanor.

Clomendy then went to their son, Richard Morris (1762-1834) and his wife Hannah. Their children included Richard, David, James, Griffith (Llangain Mill 1841-1881), Thomas, William and Benjamin. In the early 1800s, Clomendy was “from situation one of the most desirable in the county. It was a very respectable farmhouse with every appropriate building, homestead and yards, together with a small cottage called Dan-y-Lan, situated on the distant lands near the Tywi.” (Williams 2007)

Richard and Hannah were succeeded at Clomendy by their son, Richard (1806-1890) and his wife Elizabeth (1811-1867), daughter of William and Sarah Morris who owned and farmed Penhen (aka Llettypenhen), a 250 acre farm just north of Clomendy and Penyclun on the estuary.

Richard and Elizabeth had married on May 31 1839 at Llangain parish church. They were at Clomendy in 1841 and were there until the 1870s when the farm went out of the family. Their daughter, Rachel b.1839, married Richard Jones of Penyclun; their eldest son was James “Jim” Jones.

Besides Rachel, Richard and Elizabeth had Sarah (1843-1926), Margaret (1846-1915) and Eliza (1852-1935), who lived with their father on The Green, Llansteffan, after he left Clomendy, and William b.1847.