Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Evans was born in 1841, in Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, David M Evans, was 38 and her mother, Martha Davis, was 37. She lived in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1841. She died in October 1851, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 10.
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- Jane Evans in household of David Evans, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jane Evans -
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1850 · Coal Fields in South Wales Developed
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.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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