5: Parents:David Michael and Martha Parents:William Saunders Davies and Margaret Griffiths
4: David Frederick Albert Michael (Bert) = Beatrice Matilda Davies(Tilly)
3: Children: Parry, Mary, Alec.
Born 1886 to farmers at Maenseason, Monington and then Old Castle Farm (both near St. Dogmaels). Welsh speaking.
Married David (Bert) Michael in 1909. He was based in Newport (PO clerk) and she moved there. They had three children (Parry, Mary and Alec) in quick succession and Parry was partly brought up by his paternal grandparents who lived next door in York Place.
Later moved to Hafod, Glasllwch (High Cross Newport) - under dining room table when bombed and house destroyed. Then moved to Queens Hill Crescent.
Tilly had a lot of cousins and kept in touch with many of them by
letter. Her mother had 9 siblings (yielding 20 cousins) and her father had
two (yielding 13 cousins; 6 of them in Nebraska) plus 5 half-siblings.
She would talk about "cousin Rosy"; "cousin Evelyn" etc. So her
grandson (CM) aged about 14 made a family tree to get some picture of
this forest of cousins (also extended to his other grandparents). This
manuscript still exists and is the foundation of this tree.
Bert with wife and three children
Beatrice Matilda (Tilly) Michael (née Davies)
b 27 June 1886 Maensaeson, Monington RSD, Pembs
d 4 April 1970 Newport (address 59 Queens Hill Crescent)
(buried Newport/St. Woolos Cemetery - off Bassaleg Rd.)
Maensaeson Farm is between Moylegrove and Monington.
Parents:
father William Saunders Davies farmer, b 1856 Betws Ifan CDGN (d 1930);
mother Margaret Davies formerly Griffiths b 1856 Monington.
Tenant of Old Castle farm (on Cardigan bank of Teifi opposite St
Dogmaels) from 1898.
Sibling: sister Leah Mary (b 1888 Monington)
=David M Clay (Morris)(Q3 1914 Cardigan).
No children. As a widow she lived in Ely, Cardiff. d: Q1 1960.
David Morris Clay, b: Mathry, Pem, to William Henry Clay and Elizabeth (née Perkins);
Mariner: CLAY David M.; b Pembroke, PEM 1888; CC: 51599,
Ship's engineer. M.= Morris.
d: 20 July 1945, Cardiff, listed by Commonwealth War Graves Commission
as 2nd Engineer on SS Lyminge of Cardiff, age 57.
Married DFA Michael (Bert)
Marriage cert 12 Oct 1909 at St Mary, Cardigan
David Frederick Albert Michael (27) postal clerk, Wern House,
York Place, Newport. Father: David Michael, retired tradesman
Beatrice Matilda Davies (23) Castle Farm, Cardiganshire.
Father: William Saunders Davies, farmer
Witnesses: W.S. Davies, Leah Mary Davies, Martha Michael
Children: David Parry Martin (Parry), Cynthia Mary Margaret (Mary),
Alexander Temple Saunders (Alec)
DPM named after uncles (later canons) David, Parry and Martin
Griffiths [maybe in expectation of inheritance?]
Married at Cardigan, parents farmers. Welsh speaking.
Moved to Newport (York Place, next door to husband's parents).
Later moved to Hafod, Glasllwch - under dining room table when bombed.
Then moved to Queens Hill Crescent.
Some memories: an awful cook, rarely getting meat and veg ready at
same time.
Cut bread and buttered it on Sunday - and it stayed under a cloth on
a plate in the front room for a week - in case someone called.
Given to using Welsh sayings and words.
Such as "Cais y bwyd onid y brofi?" - or similar - "try food unless already
tested?" or "mochyn ddu" - "dirty pig" when her granchildren were messy.
Called her daughter-in-law "Mari Vach" [little Mary] to distinguish her
from her daughter Mari [Mary].
Regular church goer (Church in Wales)
Was convinced that God could only be reached properly via Welsh language.
Read with interest the Tivy-Side, a newspaper from the
Cardigan region.
Claimed to have been educated at "Ceibwr College" - Ceibwr Bay being the
beach near Moylegrove.
She recalled being punished for speaking welsh in school (The
"Welsh Not" was a wooden board hung around a child's neck on a rope to
bang against shins- to be worn by whoever was heard speaking welsh)
She remembered being made to remember list of headlands around the
coast - which she could not imagine needing to know [presumably taught
to aid early coastal sailing].
