Biography:
Isaac Evans
1884 –1923
Isaac Evans
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Unmarked grave Isaac Evans (1884-1923)
Isaac was born in 1884 in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, the fifth child of Independent church minister Isaac Cynwyd Evans and his wife Mary Ann.
In 1891 the family, consisting of Isaac, Mary, two of their daughters and three sons, were living at Ivy Cottage, 33, Quay Street, Ammanford.
By the time he was eighteen Isaac had left home and was living as a boarder in Roath, Cardiff, and working as a ship’s stores merchant’s clerk, His father died in 1910 and Isaac returned home to be a clerk in a colliery and to live with his mother and younger brother Daniel at Ivy Cottage.
On 2 April 1911 the census records a visitor at Ivy Cottage – Rose Comeley, a book-keeper at the British Tavern, Llanelly: Rose and Isaac married that year.
Their first child, Marie Vera, was born in 1912, by which time they had moved to 14, Castle Street, Berkhamsted. Their second child, Stanley, was born there in August 1916, but sadly survived only one day. He is buried in this cemetery. In 1920 Lionel was born.
What had prompted the move to Berkhamsted is unknown, but the 1921 census shows that Isaac had set up as a sports outfitter on his own account and they could afford to employ a live-in domestic servant.
Shortly after the census Isaac must have become unwell, because he died, aged only 39, in Hill End Asylum in December 1923. Rose kept the business going and the 1939 register records her living at the same address with Lionel, who was unmarried, and Vera and her husband.
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Unmarked grave Isaac Evans (1884-1923)
Isaac was born in 1884 in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, the fifth child of Independent church minister Isaac Cynwyd Evans and his wife Mary Ann.
In 1891 the family, consisting of Isaac, Mary, two of their daughters and three sons, were living at Ivy Cottage, 33, Quay Street, Ammanford.
By the time he was eighteen Isaac had left home and was living as a boarder in Roath, Cardiff, and working as a ship’s stores merchant’s clerk, His father died in 1910 and Isaac returned home to be a clerk in a colliery and to live with his mother and younger brother Daniel at Ivy Cottage.
On 2 April 1911 the census records a visitor at Ivy Cottage – Rose Comeley, a book-keeper at the British Tavern, Llanelly: Rose and Isaac married that year.
Their first child, Marie Vera, was born in 1912, by which time they had moved to 14, Castle Street, Berkhamsted. Their second child, Stanley, was born there in August 1916, but sadly survived only one day. He is buried in this cemetery. In 1920 Lionel was born.
What had prompted the move to Berkhamsted is unknown, but the 1921 census shows that Isaac had set up as a sports outfitter on his own account and they could afford to employ a live-in domestic servant.
Shortly after the census Isaac must have become unwell, because he died, aged only 39, in Hill End Asylum in December 1923. Rose kept the business going and the 1939 register records her living at the same address with Lionel, who was unmarried, and Vera and her husband.
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