When Ruth Hannah Davies was born on 1 August 1876, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, William Davies, was 24 and her mother, Jane Jones, was 21. She married John Gale on 3 August 1896, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1881 and Rhondda, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1911. She died in 1929, in Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 53.
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Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
In 1890, President McKinley and Congress passed the McKinley Tariff, which have had direct effect on Southern Wales. All foreign exports were taxed, including tinplates from the iron and copper mines in Wales.
The strike at Penrhyn Slate Quarry was the longest in Wales history, lasting from November 22, 1900 to 1903. When workers in the quarry were informed that union dues were no longer being collected, they started protesting.
Welsh and English: variant of Davis , a patronymic equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd ‘Dafydd's son’. The name is especially numerous in south Wales. This form of the name probably shows the influence of Davy , the common English form of the personal name David in the late medieval and early modern periods (see Davey ).
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