Swansea Family History

  Gower was designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956 and was the first area in the United Kingdom to be granted this status.  One person who was instrumental in this being granted was the psychoanalyst,  Ernest Jones .  Jones  was the lifelong friend of  Sigmund Fre ud.  Jones ’ first wife the composer  Morfydd Llwyn Owen , had died 1918, in mysterious circumstances. Gower does have a dark and mysterious past, and in this article, we’ll be looking at two cases. 2023 marks the bicentennial of the first event. We’ll start slightly earlier than 1823, at Christmas 1822, the  Talbot  family of Penrice, were informed that “ bones of elephants ” had been found after  Daniel Davies  and  Rev. Davies  had found animal bones earlier that year. The following January  Rev. William Buckland , Professor of Geology at Oxford University, arrived for a week. During this time,  Buckland  made a discovery of more bones in Paviland Cave, between Port Eynon and Rhossili.  Buckland  mista

Below are the list of names of the service men/women who have died during either First or Second World Wars and they are buried locally in the different cemeteries in the Swansea area Surname , Initial Page Number Volume A’Hearne , L. G 1 Local Cemeteries Abbott , J. S. 1 Local Cemeteries Adams , W. J. 1 Local Cemeteries Anderton , F. 1 Local Cemeteries Argent , G. 1 Local Cemeteries Attwell , D. W. 2 Local Cemeteries Baglow , A. 3 Local Cemeteries Bailey , R.L. 3 Local Cemeteries Balanco , C. H. 3 Local Cemeteries Baker , T. M. 3 Local Cemeteries Bartlett , W. E. 3 Local Cemeteries Bartley