Peter Hunnisett

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:

Samuel died on 2^nd June 1850 leaving everything to Sarah including “three cottages, gardens and two small fields”. His will, dated 25^th 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:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.