BEAVAN OF COLVA

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BEAVAN

1 JOHN BEAVAN of Colva, Radnorshire,[1] married on 29 June 1731 at Aberedw, Radnorshire, ELINOR POWELL.[2]

Children of John and Elinor (Powell) Beavan:

i ELINOR BEAVAN, bap 15 Sep 1733, Colva;[3] m 9 Jul 1757, Colva, RICHARD MEREDITH.[4]

2 ii JOHN BEAVAN (bap 1736); m ELIZABETH WILLIAMS.

iii SAMUEL BEAVAN, bap 22 Dec 1738, Colva.[5]

2 JOHN BEAVAN of Cwm Kesty, Colva, yeoman, was baptised on 1 November 1736 at Colva[6] and buried on 4 March 1833 at Llandegley, Radnorshire.[7] He married on 3 March 1764 at Llandegley, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS,[8] daughter of Evan and Alice (Watkin) Williams (see here). Elizabeth was born about 1745 and buried on 29 June 1829 at Llandegley.

Children of John and Elizabeth (Williams) Beavan:[9]

i JOHN BEAVAN of Styconny, Old Radnor, yeoman, bap 24 Feb 1765, Colva,[10] bur 24 Dec 1834, Llandegley;[11] m 25 Aug 1797, Colva, SUSANNA WILLIAMS.[12]

ii EVAN BEAVAN, bap 3 Jan 1767, Colva.[13]

iii ANN BEAVAN, bap Jan 1769, Colva.[14]

iv MARY BEAVAN, bap 4 May 1770, Colva;[15] m 19 May 1788, Colva, THOMAS MORGAN.[16]

vi ELINOR BEAVAN, bap 24 Dec 1771, Colva.[17]

v THOMAS BEAVAN of Glascwm, farmer, b Colva, bap 11 Jul 1773, Colva,[18] d 22 Sep 1853,[19] bur 27 Sep 1853, Cregrina;[20] m(1) 16 May 1796, Glascwm, ELIZABETH DAVIES;[21] m(2) GWEN.[22]

vii SUSANNA BEAVAN, bap Jan 1775, Colva;[23] m 27 Sep 1800, Colva, NIMROD MORGAN.[24]

viii ALICE BEAVAN, b ca 1777, Colva,[25] d 29 Aug 1853, Llowes, Radnorshire;[26] m 10 Apr 1802, Colva, THOMAS DAVIES[27] (see here).

ix SARAH BEAVAN, b Colva,[28] bap 29 Jun 1779, Colva;[29] m 4 Feb 1811, Colva, THOMAS PROBERT.[30]

x MARGARET BEAVAN, bap 28 Sep 1782, Colva;[31] m 25 Feb 1805, Colva, JAMES HAVARD.[32]

xi ELIZABETH BEAVAN, bap 14 Jun 1785, Colva.[33]

xii SAMUEL BEAVAN of Llanfihangel Nant Melan, farmer, b Colva, bap 1791, Colva,[34] d 3 Mar 1876, Brilley;[35] m 28 Nov 1816, Bryngwyn, ELINOR JONES.[36]

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[1] He was perhaps the John Bevan buried at Colva on 25 Apr 1760 but there was also a John Beavan buried at Llandegley on 2 Apr 1783.

[2] Letter from Dianne Foster, 17 Apr 2001, citing Aberedw bishop’s transcripts.

[3] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[4] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[5] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). He may have been the Samuel Beavan, late of the parish of Colva, officer of excise, who married Mary Bedward on 24 Jul 1770 at Llanfihangel Nant Melan.

[6] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

[7] Llandegley parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[8] Llandegley parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[9] Some of the baptism dates are unclear in the register. The will of Thomas Williams of the Carney in Llandegley, dated 21 Sep 1782, mentions the children of his niece Elizabeth by John Beavan, including sons John, Evan and Thomas, and daughters “Ann, Mary, Elinor, Susannah, Alice and Sarah” (National Library of Wales, BR1783-36).

[10] Letter from Dianne Foster, 5 Apr 1999, citing Colva bishop’s transcripts.

[11] Llandegley parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); letter from Dianne Foster, 4 Jan 2001, citing abstracts of Llandegley monumental inscriptions.

[12] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[13] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[14] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); letter from Dianne Foster, 5 Apr 1999, citing Colva bishop’s transcripts.

[15] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[16] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[17] Letter from Dianne Foster, 5 Apr 1999, citing Colva bishop’s transcripts.

[18] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); 1851 census returns, Aberedw (National Archives, HO 107/2488, fol. 209).

[19] National Library of Wales, BR1853-23.

[20] Cregrina parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[21] Glascwm parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[22] Gwen is named as the mother in the baptism entry for Thomas’s son William in 1816 in the Glascwm parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[23] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[24] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[25] 1851 census returns, Llowes (National Archives, HO 107/2491, fol. 234), where Alice’s age is given as 71; death certificate, where her age is given as 78.

[26] Death certificate.

[27] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[28] 1861 census returns, Gladestry (National Archives, RG 9/4228, fol. 40).

[29] Letter from Dianne Foster, 5 Apr 1999, citing Colva bishop’s transcripts. It appears from the Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk) that Sarah was baptized on 27 Jun 1782, but the register entries are somewhat haphazard and the 1779 date seems to fit better with the apparent baptism date of her sister Margaret.

[30] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[31] Letter from Dianne Foster, 5 Apr 1999, citing Colva bishop’s transcripts.

[32] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[33] Letter from Dianne Foster, 13 Aug 1998, citing Colva bishop’s transcripts.

[34] Colva parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); 1861 census returns, Llanfihangel Nant Melan (National Archives, RG 9/4228, fol. 69).

[35] Grant of probate (will dated 18 Jun 1874, proved 10 Jan 1877).

[36] Bryngwyn parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).