My husband's grandparents, Benjamin and Annie Evans and (right) an earlier photo of Annie.
	Clover Hill, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, in 1905 - birthplace of at least four generations of the Davies/Evans/Stevens family. The children in the photograph are (left) Margaret Euronwy Evans and (right, in the baby carriage) one of her younger sisters, Mary Morfudd Evans, b. 1904. The man on the bicycle is their father, Benjamin Evans, and the old couple are Annie's parents, Thomas and Margaret Stevens. The other two women are not identified.
	Annie and Benjamin Evans's daughter, Martha Ann Stevens Evans, at the time of her marriage to Edmund Rowland Davies (1940) - my husband's parents. More branches of the family tree can be seen by clicking here .
	The 1891 Ordnance Survey map shows Clover Hill, in Dinas, Pembrokeshire, marked with "P.H." indicating a Public House. Annie Stevens was born in Clover Hill in 1871 and in turn gave birth to all five of her daughters there; Euronwy left first, at the early age of 13, to begin her nursing career. Bessie and her family lived there and looked after the old lady until she died in 1951. In 1946, Annie's daughter Martha and her husband (Edmund Rowland Davies) were living with them in Clover Hill when twins Gilian Elizabeth and Peter Edmund, were born. Clydfan was built across the road for Ingrids parents and their children and they moved there in 1956, and on her marriage Ingrid stayed on in Clydfan with her husband Anthony Greatrex and their children were subsequently born there. Martha (Pat) and her husband Edmund Davies built Seaways on land next to Clover Hill for themselves and their family, and Mary lived in Glandy on the other side, the house being eventually inherited by Ann, Annie's eldest granddaughter. Clover Hill remained empty for around 18 months but still in family ownership, and Martha's mother-in-law lived there briefly around 1960 before Euronwy returned on her husband Gerald Holman's retirement in 1962. On Euronwy's death in 1987 Clover Hill was bequeathed to her niece Gilian (Annie's youngest granddaughter) but was subsequently sold; her three nieces, however, are all still living in properties adjoining Clover Hill. Margaret Stevens (Annie's mother) is an interesting character in that Annie's birth certificate gives her mother's name as "Margaret Stevens, previously Gronow, formerly John, nee Owen." She was twice-widowed before her marriage to Thomas Stevens, both her previous husbands having died at sea, and went on to bear him six children!
	Family tradition has it that the Evans line was descended from a shipwrecked Norwegian sailor who took the surname because the Welsh-speaking locals were unable to pronounce his real name; the truth of that story is uncertain, but it would certainly explain all the blonde, blue-eyed children in the family for several generations in a region where nearly everyone else is of the dark-haired Ancient British genotype!
	Birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial details for the Stevens and Evans family since 1798 have been recorded in the family Bible - click here to see the details. For my husband's family tree, derived from these records, click on the "family tree" button below.

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