When Ann Edwards was born in 1848, in Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, John Edwards, was 31 and her mother, Mary Williams, was 37. She married Abraham Jones about 1870, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales in 1881 and Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She was buried in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales.
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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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English and Welsh: variant of Edward , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England c. 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.
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