Thomas 1a

Birth Name Thomas
Gender male

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Death       2

Families

Family of Thomas
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
J Lloyd Thomas

Family of Thomas and Mary Moses
Married Wife Mary Moses ( * + ... )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Dafydd Arafnah Thomas

Source References

  1. Dictionary of Welsh Biography
      • Date: 1959
      • Page: Moses-Evans, David Lewis
      • Citation:

        MOSES-EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1822 - 1893), poet and schoolmaster
        Name: David Lewis Moses-Evans
        Date of birth: 1822
        Date of death: 1893
        Child: Mary Thomas (née Moses)
        Child: E. Tudor Moses-Evans
        Child: D.L. Moses-Evans
        Child: John Moy Evans
        Child: T. Moy Evans
        Gender: Male
        Occupation: poet and schoolmaster
        Area of activity: Education; Literature and Writing; Poetry
        Authors: Moelwyn Idwal Williams, John Lloyd Thomas

        Born 1 May 1822 at Cwm-pib, Cribyn Clotas, near Lampeter. He was of the same family as David Davis, Castellhywel. At the age of 12 Moses moved to Blaenbidernyn near Pencarreg. Some five years afterwards, he opened a school on his own account in Pencarreg and later at Rhydcymerau, Brynaman, and Cwm-twrch. He finally returned to Brynaman where he became employed as a clerk in the local iron works, a post which he held for forty years. He was recognised locally as a good Welsh scholar.

        In the 1840's he contributed a series of character sketches to Yr Haul and in the 1850's he was a frequent contributor to Yr Ymofynydd on botanical subjects. He translated ‘The Vicar of Wakefield’ and ‘We are Seven,’ etc., into Welsh. At the Lampeter eisteddfod of 1859 he was second to John Morris Jones (Ioan Cunllo) for an ode to the memory of Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), his work being highly praised by Eben Fardd.

        He was known colloquially as Dafydd Moses but about 1860 he added the surname Evans after researching his family history, and this was the surname used by the 5 or 6 youngest of his 9 children, 4 sons and 5 daughters. Moses died 1 Sept. 1893.

        His daughter Mary was the step-mother of J. Lloyd Thomas, headmaster of Llanfyllin grammar school, and the mother of Dafydd Arafnah Thomas, a minister. See T.J. Morgan's article on the eisteddfod poets of Cwmaman and the Swansea valley in J.W.B.S., 9, 162-85, for his role as a teacher of poets in the area and the comments of Watcyn Wyn (Watkin Hezekiah Williams and Gwydderig. See also Huw Walters, Canu'r pwll a'r pulpud, 94-103.

        Gwydderig (Richard Williams, 1842 - 1917) bequeathed his manuscripts to T. Moy Evans, one of D.L. Moses-Evans's sons, headmaster of St. David's College school Lampeter before becoming a solicitor in Ammanford : he edited a volume of stories, Hirnos Gaeaf.

        Another son, John M(oy) Evans, was a prominent solicitor in Swansea, a town council member and chairman of the library committee and of the Royal Institution. He was president of the South Wales Unitarian assembly and edited series of articles in the Cambrian Daily Leader. Other sons were D.L. Moses-Evans, a solicitor in Ystalyfera, and E. Tudor Moses-Evans, vicar of Monkton, Pembs. and canon of St. David's.

        Authors
        Dr Moelwyn Idwal Williams, Aberystwyth
        John Lloyd Thomas, (1889 - 1974), Pontardawe

        Sources
        Cymru (O.M.E.), 1894, 269;
        NLW MS 9267.

        Published date: 1959
        Article Copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/

      • Citation:

        The source says that David Lewis Moses Evans lived in Brynaman (Carmarthenshire) for 40 years, however I have also cited this source for references that he lived in Llanguike (Glamorgan). These places are right next to each other, on opposite sides of the county border; it seems he lived in one and worked in the other, and the source refers to where he worked.

  2. (Death unknown but obviously not living)