When Sarah Brace was born about 1824, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Benjamin Brace, was 45 and her mother, Eleanor Morgan, was 39. She married Thomas Davies on 3 April 1845, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales for about 10 years. She died in 1904, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 81, and was buried in Cefn Coed Cemetery, Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom.
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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.
English (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French braz, brace, brase ‘arm’, probably used of someone with a strong arm or with a deformity of the arm.
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