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The First Stationmaster of Brynmenyn Station and the Coleman Family

Local StoriesadminJune 29, 201022

(Kindly provided by David J.K.Jones of Porthcawl who is the Great Grand Nephew of Peter Coleman). Peter Coleman was born on 23 May 1837, in Shoreditch in London. He married Jane Mathews in July, 1863 in Newport, Monmouthshire. Jane was born in 1843 in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan.

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