Charity No. 1187117
A page to document the personalities of the Garw Valley
The Garw Valley Heritage Society has heard this week of the sad death of Kevin Sinnott, renowned artist who amongst his many achievements has supported us with lending his paintings for display on our newsletters, and for the Glamorgan Family History Society journals.
MINISTER of the Independent Church, TRANSLATOR, AND PRINTER.
Evan was born on the 18th of January 1795 at Gelli-Beblig, Betws, Nr Brynmenyn. the youngest of seven
children. His father died when he was 3 years old, and owing to the extreme poverty of the family he had
no educational advantages in life, his mother tutoring him at home using the family bible as a text book.
Colin has put together this presentation about Fanny Margaret Thomas.
Thank you to Colin for a great piece of research on Daniel James. Please find his document below.
‘A doughty warrior in the women’s cause’: by Ryland Wallacern In April 1912 Miss F. M. Thomas, headmistress of the Ffaldau Girls’ School at Pontycymer in the Garw Valley, rose to address the National Federation of Women Teachers (NFWT) at its annual conference in Hull. This organisation was a pressure group within the National Union…