When Mary Matthew Trenowith was born in 1843, in Paul, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Trenowth, was 26 and her mother, Mary Ann Matthews, was 29. She married Nicholas Mann Grylls on 11 February 1865, in Golden Square, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Christchurch, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 16 February 1919, in Eddington, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 76, and was buried in Eddington Cemetery, Eddington, Victoria, Australia.
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Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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.
End of transportation to Western Australia.
Cornish: locative name from one or more of at least twenty places in Cornwall named with Cornish tre ‘house, settlement’ + nowyth ‘new’, with the spellings Trenewth, Trenouth, Trenowah, Trenower, Trenoweth, Trenowth, Trenute, or Trenuth.
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