Tag: Welsh family history

• David Jenkins (1850–1891), A Quiet Life Broken by Misfortune

  

  In the upland districts of Montgomeryshire and southern Meirionnydd, the late nineteenth century was an age that demanded toughness and restraint. Men worked long hours in all seasons, living by the hard arithmetic of livestock, rent, weather, and market prices, and measured as much by reputation as by income. Within that world, David Jenkins, eldest…

  Antony David Davies

  25/01/2026

  History

  19th-century-wales, agricultural-labourers, ancestry, camlan-farm, cwmrhaiadr, david-jenkins, dinas-mawddwy, family history, farming-accidents, Genealogy, History, jenkins-family, llyfnant-valley, Local history, Machynlleth, maescelyn, meirionnydd-history, methodist-wales, montgomeryshire-history, Rural communities, Rural Wales, rural-labour-history, Upland farming, victorian-farming, victorian-wales, Welsh family history, Welsh genealogy, welsh-hill-farming, welsh-rural-history

• Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell (1877–1918), Science, Service, and a Life of Exceptional Promise

  

  Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell stands out within my family history as a figure whose life moved far beyond the rural landscapes of Mid Wales into the international worlds of science, medicine, and imperial service. Though his career was cut short by the First World War, the scale of his intellectual achievement, and the geographical breadth…

  Antony David Davies

  21/01/2026

  History

  Antony David Davies, British biologists, Edwardian medicine, Edwardian scientists, First World War medical service, Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell, History, history of zoology, Llyfnant Valley families, medicine, Merton College Oxford, Old Llyfnant Valley Farming Families, Oxford scientists, philosophy, Royal Air Force medical board, science, science and empire, South American exploration, Spurrell family, University of New Orleans, Welsh family history, Welsh genealogy, West Africa exploration, writing, zoological discovery