See also
Husband:
Rees BARRETT (1812-1878)
Wife:
Mary PARRY (c. 1803-1869)
Children:
Marriage:
14 Jul 1842
St Mary's, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire1
Name:
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
1812
Residence:
1841 (age 28-29)
The Lamb Inn, Upper and Lower Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, Wales2
Residence:
1851 (age 38-39)
St Peter, Carmarthenshire, Wales6
Relation to Head of House: Head
Occupation:
-; Road Surveyor Censuses and 1875 Slater's directory and death certificate
Residence:
1861 (age 48-49)
St Peter, Carmarthenshire, Wales3
Relation to Head of House: Head
Residence:
1871 (age 58-59)
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales4
Relation to Head of House: Head
Death:
6 Sep 1878 (age 65-66)
23 Union Street, Carmarthen5
Burial:
8 Sep 1878
Union Street Chapel, Carmarthen7
Name:
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
-
Birth:
c. 1803
Baptism:
1 May 1803 (age 0)
Warwick, St Mary, Warwickshire, England8
Occupation:
14 Jul 1842 (age 38-39)
Shop Keeper according to marriage record
Residence:
1851 (age 47-48)
St Peter, Carmarthenshire, Wales6
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Residence:
1861 (age 57-58)
St Peter, Carmarthenshire, Wales3
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Death:
1869 (age 65-66)
Carmarthen10
In 1841 census staying at Lamb Inn in parish of Llanboidy aged 29, Land Surveyor Living at Johnstown in 1851 Second marriage (1870) was "by licence": witnesses David Morgan Lewis & William Davies At 23 Union Street, Carmarthen from at least 1858 (Slater's directory) Death Cert - died of "Disease of Prostate Gland, 12 years." Certified and registered by James Rowlands FRCS of King Street, Carmarthen. Year of birth calculated from stated age in his death notice - 66 years The Carmarthen Journal of Friday 20 September includes an obituary for him: He was appointed surveyor to the Three Commott's district in 1851 and in May 1856 he was appointed to the Western division. He had been at the Union street Independent chapel on 25th August where he had been a deacon for many years The Carmarthen Journal of Friday 20 September reports the meeting of the Carmarthan District Road Board: "Mr James Bagnall paid a very high tribute of praise to the memory of the late Mr Rees Barrett, surveyor who had died since the last meeting of the board. The Chairman concurred in everything Mr Bagnall said, and said that they had been deprived of a very able and experienced public officer. Mr Carver said that he held in his hand a resolution which he would readand put to the meeting which was as follows " Resolved that this board cannot allow the present meeting to pass without unanimously recording their deep sense of loss they have sustained by the death of Mr Rees Barrett, surveyor. During the time Mr Barrett was turnpike surveyor of the County (upwards of a quarter of a century) he discharged the duties of his office with curtesy, ability and impartiality and to the entire satisfaction of the board. The Board also unanimously express with the bereaved family of the deceased in their affliction and desire their clerk to send a copy of this resolution to his widow."
Year of birth is a guesstimate
Ancestry.com, Pembrokeshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1599-1995, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2020;). Archives Wales; Wales; Pembrokeshire Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. Ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com, 1841 Wales Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). Class: HO107; Piece: 1382; Book: 11; Civil Parish: Upper and Lower Llanboidy; County: Carmarthenshire; Enumeration District: 3; Folio: 35; Page: 13; Line: 19; GSU roll: 464309. Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com, 1861 Wales Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;). Class: RG9; Piece: 4141; Folio: 14; Page: 22; GSU roll: 543241. Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com, 1871 Wales Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;). Class: RG10; Piece: 5498; Folio: 90; Page: 20; GSU roll: 850848. Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com, England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;). Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com, 1851 Wales Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;). Class: HO107; Piece: 2473; Folio: 30; Page: 3; GSU roll: 104228. Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
Carmarthen Journal. Fri Sept 13th 1878.
Ancestry.com, Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). Warwickshire County Record Office; Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers; Roll: Engl/2/1249; Document Reference: DR 447. Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com, Wales, Select Births and Baptisms, 1541-1907, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
1837online.com. Deaths April, May, June 1869.