Old Families of Glamorgan
This file will contain information relating to old families of Glamorgan. Information can be in the format of images or text; images of people or places, like old churches or schools....even entries to old cemeteries; Text can be family group sheets, wills, bible records, census.....anything which might provide a clue to researchers.
From: mona everett
December 29, 2006 11:31 AM
This is a photo found in an attic in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. On the back it says, "David DAVIES, New Mexico". I have a David W. DAVIES, b. Wales (likely Glamorgan), in abt. 1842, who came to the US with his father, Thomas D. DAVIES (later DAVIS). The DAVIES men were copper smeltermen in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. We had relatives living in Llanelli in the 1830s and 40s, at least. If this is my David in the photo, he died in New Mexico abt. Jan. 10, 1881 at age 37and is buried in Baltimore, Maryland. Does anyone recognize him? If that is his wife and daughter in the photo (which I assume it is) they are both born in Maryland. Thanks!Mona Everett, 1314 Woodvale Drive, madison, Wisconsin 53716, USA
McGee, ship workers from Morgan area ca 1702:
On the thinnest evidence possible, this may be part of my ancestral family from Wales. But this connection did not come by personal research, but from potential McGee cousins who saw my McGee records, saw a possible connection, so contacted me with their information that their family came from Morgan area Wales and that they were ship builders.
My own research found my 4gPatrick Stuart McGee first in Burke County, North Carolina and after 1820 in Habersham County, Georgia.
On that information the cousins added that the McGee's first lived in Camden, South Carolina, but to escape the dangers of the Revolutionary War left Camden which was a hot box of Tories and moved north to what would later be Burke area where they found better security among the Quaker Community.
So this scant history is for you descendents of McGee in Wales to add what you know about this family. Note also that other potential cousins think McGee came from Ireland........still others think Scotland. So there you have it.
Don Kelly McGee
