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Jane Frances Morgan (1846)


Jane was born in 1846 at Glascoed and was christened on 18th June 1846 at Usk Parish Church. Interestingly she was also baptised in Monkswood Church in 1847 along with her elder sister Anne Elizabeth Morgan (who had also previously been baptised at Usk)!

Her parents were John Morgan and Mary (nee Arthur). I had assumed that Jane spent her early life at Hill Farm although she was found at Bettws House (although called Bettws Mount” in 1861), Bettws Newydd with relatives on the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses, so maybe that assumption of mine is incorrect.

I received the following information on Jane Frances from Rufus McLachlan last week, along with details of the 1851 to 1871 censuses. Thank you Rufus!

“It looks like Jane Frances lived with her grandmother Susanna Sharp. At the age of four she is listed in 1851 census as a grand-daughter staying at Bettws House, Bettws Newydd. Ten years later in 1861 she is staying there again. This time her age is given as 15 and she is described as a niece. Susanna died at the age of 90 in January 1867 (her burial date being 11 January), and her son James is given as the owner of Bettws House in the 1871 census. The next house in the census list is ‘Brooks’ where Susanna’s daughter Anne Arthur is the owner, and her niece Jane Frances is living there with her age given as 23.

I have yet to find an 1881 census entry for Jane Frances. Anne Arthur’s sister Fanny was living at ‘Brooks’ as well in 1871. Fanny is listed as the owner at ‘Brooks’ in 1881, but Jane Frances is no longer living there.

Jane Frances married George Baynon Jones in mid-1890, and I have not managed to find census records for her after her marriage.”

I was pleased to hear that she lived to a good age, having been reliably informed by some of her parents’ descendants, Mary and Monica Morgan that Jane “lived to age 72.  She died on February 25th 1919 according to her death notice in the Abergavenny Chronicle of 7th March 1919.

DEATHS

JONES - February 25th, suddenly, at Hampstead, Jane Francis Jones, recently of "Hadlow", Llanwenarth Citra, widow of the Rev. George Baynon Jones, late Rector of Llangattock Lingoed.  Buried at Bettws Newydd, March 5th.

There is information about her house, Hadlow, part of the Marquis of Abergavenny’s estate in Ty-r ywen here:

“HADLOW, residence pleasantly situated at Mrs. Jones, Green Ty-r-ywen, containing three bed, subject to six on rooms, sitting-room, kitchen and month’s notice.  Wash-house being part of 552 on Plan.

When the Marquis’ [of Abergavenny] estate was sold in 1916, Hadlow was tenanted by Mrs. Jane Frances [Morgan] Jones who purchased the property.  She died in 1919 leaving Hadlow to her nephew, James Frederick Fothergill Rowland who lived in London.”

As noted in the article, Jane left the Welsh Hadlow to her nephew, James Frederick Fothergill Rowland (son of Jane’s sister, Mary Susanna Morgan) who was an analytical chemist living in West Hampstead, London.  She apparently also left some money to our great-aunts who used it to build the house in Maine – the house they named Hadlow after Aunt Jane’s house.  Since the house was built in 1920 and Jane died in 1919, this fits perfectly.”

Thanks for your brilliant sleuthing Monica!

Census records:

1851 census with her Grandmother, Susanna Sharp (married name Arthur) and her extended family at Bettws Newydd.

1861 census with her Grandmother, Susanna Sharp (married name Arthur) and her extended family at Bettws Newydd.

1871 census - this time with her Aunts at Bettws Newydd (her Grandmother Susanna had died in 1867).