When Rev. Daniel Davies Jeremy was born on 31 August 1828, in Pencarreg, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, John Jeremy, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Evans, was 18. He married Ann Swanwick Hutton on 10 September 1861, in Saint Peter's, County Dublin, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in St Peter Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 17 January 1900, at the age of 71.
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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 and Welsh (southern): from the Middle English personal name Jeremy, from a French form of Jeremias, a Latinization of the Greek form of the Hebrew name rendered Jeremiah in England and Wales.
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