Annie Pitt

  General Notes:

NOTES FROM CONVERSATION WITH EDITH CLYDE PURNELL (nee Brown): 19/03/1994

Clyde was brought up by James & Mary Ann Pitt, of Pontnewynydd.
She was sent to them originally, as a baby, because she had a medical condition, that required treatment at Pontypool Hospital. After she recovered, she was wanted back by her parents (Fred & Annie Brown - Annie was James & Mary Ann's eldest child) - at this point I believe her parents lived in the Rhondda valley. There was a disagreement about this - eventually James & Mary Ann won the day and brought Clyde up themselves.

Clyde remembers working in her grandparents' grocery shop.
She remembers her Grandparents with great affection & love.
She described the Pitt family as a very GOOD family.
She idolised James Pitt - he was described as a lovely, good man - she recalled how in his work as an Insurance Agent, he had to go to Weston-Super-Mare every Wednesday on the "Steamer" - and took Clyde with him every week. She kept telling me how Mary Ann was "the most beautiful girl in the Glascoed" - and a very kind, good woman. ⁴

  Birth Notes:

Born in the first quarter of 1880. Volume 11a. Page 128.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Residence: Pontnewynydd, Rhondda & Bargoed.

• Census: 1881, 3 Apr 1881, The Tump, Panteg, Monmouthshire.

• Census: 1891, 5 Apr 1891, 5 Mill Road, Pontnewynydd, Monmouthshire.

• Census: 1901, 31 Mar 1901, 1 Dyke Row, Pontnewynydd, Monmouthshire.

Annie married Frederick John Brown, son of David Brown and Mary (Brown), on 31 Oct 1899 in St. Thomas' Church, Talywain, Abersychan, Monmouthshire.¹ (Frederick John Brown was born on 26 Nov 1878 in Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire ⁵ and died in Dec 1981 in Llanharan, Glamorgan ⁴.)