When John Evans was born in 1850, in Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, George Evans, was 31 and his mother, Maria Howells, was 30. He lived in St Peter Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1871.
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Like the iron and copper mines, the coal fields in South Wales were very important to the industrial revolution. Many of those that worked in the coal mines were part of the Merthyr uprising.
The Great Reform Act of 1867 gave males the right to vote. This also helped to form the Welsh Liberal Party. It was the second of three reforms that would take place.
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Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
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