Samuel & Sarah Parry of Pentre Broughton
Samuel Parry is believed to have been born around 1805. He became a collier and would have worked in one of the many collieries near Broughton, about 3 miles NW of Wrexham. He married a local girl, Sarah Evans, who was probably born around 1808 and they are known to have had nine children:
Robert
ca. 1830
Mary
ca. 1832
Samuel
ca. 1834
John
born 2 Jan 1837
bapt. 21 April Wrexham
ca. 1839
Harriott
bapt. 17 Nov 1842
Brymbo
Price
born 27 Oct 1844
Sarah
bapt. 12 Sep 1847
Brymbo
Peter Francis
bapt. 31 May 1850
Brymbo
Samuel died on 2nd June 1850 leaving everything to Sarah including “three cottages, gardens and two small fields”. His will, dated 25th May 1850, also named all his children.
There was a piece of land to the north of Black Lane which was known in the family as Sarah Parry's patch. She had two small, 2 up / 2 down, cottages on her patch and apparently water had to be fetched from the nearby stream. This would have been the cottages known as Ty Newydd and Awelfa which remained in the family until 1977 but have since been renamed. Were these two of the cottages mentioned in Samuel’s will?
In 1851 Sarah was living at Pentre Broughton with all her known children. All her sons down to Edwin, then aged 12, were colliers. Sarah was still at Pentre in 1861 with Samuel, John, Edwin, Sarah and Peter.
In 1871 Sarah was living in Castle Town Road, Brymbo, with Samuel and Peter and by 1881 she was in Brake village with her son Peter who was described as an invalid.
Sarah died in 1889, aged about 80.
Of their children:
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There appear to have been two children named Robert Parry born in Brymbo at about the same time, One of them married Elizabeth Griffiths in 1853, lived in Brymbo and worked at Penrhos Colliery but I have found no proof that this was our Robert.
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Samuel was a collier and continued to live with his widowed mother until at least 1871. It is not known if he married but his death was registered in 1897.
- John was a coal miner and in 1871 was living at Pentre with his wife, Hannah, but has not been traced after that.
- Edwin was a collier, married Ellen Thomas and lived in Moss.
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Price became a colliery stationary engine driver and married Sarah Cross in 1869. Their known children were:
William Charles
1870
Blanch
1872
Clara
1877
Rosina
ca. 1879
Enos
ca. 1882
Elizabeth Ann
1884
Mary
ca. 1888
In 1871 Price and Sarah were living at Moss with their son, William, and in 1881 they were in Brake village.
By 1891 Sarah had died and Price was living in Castle Town Road, Brymbo, with all his known children. He was still in Brymbo in 1901 with Clara, Enos and Mary. Enos was a colliery labourer. Price died in 1923.
- Peter seems to have been handicapped as he remained living with his mother and in 1871 was described as an invalid. In 1891, after his mother had died, he was recorded as a pauper patient at the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum in Denbigh.