When Hannah Owen was born about 1835, in Llangyfelach, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, John Owen, was 35 and her mother, Charlotte Lewis, was 41. She married John Thomas on 19 September 1858, in Llansamlet, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. She died on 3 May 1861, in Llansamlet, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 27, and was buried in Mynydd-Bach, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom.
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The Rebecca Riots were a group of protests in west Wales from 1839-1843. The people involved were mostly poor farmers, primarily men dressed as women. The group was called “Rebecca and her daughters”, a title believed to have come the book of Genesis. They mostly fought against the toll-gates. There is only record of one death during the riots: a young Sarah Williams had been warned that the rioters were coming, but upon refusing to leave, was killed.
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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.
Welsh: from the personal name Owain, from Latin Eugenius (see Eugene ). This Welsh personal name is cognate with Old Irish Eogán, see 2 and 3.
Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eoghain ‘son of Eoghan’. See McEwen .
Irish: from Ó hEoghain, ‘descendant of Eoghan’. See Ewen .
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