When Catherine Rees was born in 1826, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Rees, was 40 and her mother, Margaret, was 36. She married William Eynon on 24 December 1853, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Peterston-super-ely, Glamorgan, Wales in 1851 and Garth, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1871. She died in June 1899, in Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
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Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
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.
Welsh: variant of Rice .
German: habitational name from a place in the Rhineland called Rees.
German: from a short form of the personal name Andreas .
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