Continuing in 4th Generation of Oakley Leighs
7th Generation of Leighs
unmd ELIZABETH WILLIAM (abt 1745 - 16 Mar 1814 Llandeilo - Talybont), dau of John WILLIAM, farmer, and ELIZABETH UNKNOWN
77 DAVID LEIGHNothing is known of why Rev. Edmund did not marry ELIZABETH WILLIAM. In the Bishop's Transcripts he gave as DAVID’s father the name of his maternal grandfather JOHN WILLIAM, but the boy grew up with the LEIGH name and his descendants continued it. In several ways Rev. EDMUND treated DAVID as his eldest son, and he himself apparently remained the trusted family pastor. See the biographies of Rev. Edmund Leigh and David Leigh
md ANNE PUGH (chr 8 Feb 1751 - 11 Dec 1833 both Llanedi), dau of MORGAN PUGH and JOAN JOHN, on 12 Oct 1773 in Llanedi.
The PUGH family were farmers at Cae Corryn farm just south of the Llanedi church. By local standards they were considered prosperous, and ANNE'S father MORGAN and uncle John were literate by 1744 when they first signed their names as Llanedi parish churchwardens. We found their father HENRICUS who married MARY MORGAN in the Llandeilo-Talybont parish church on 15 June 1700, but they moved to Llanedi, where their two sons John and MORGAN later lived. MORGAN married JOAN JOHN in 1736 in Llanedi, and five children were born to them, our ANNE PUGH coming in the middle. JOAN JOHN's father DAVID was buried in 1722, and other JOHNs were present in Llanedi, but we could not construct a family group. ANNE'S elder brother Henry PUGH married Ann HOPKIN in 1762, and had eight children. Henry's family is memorialized in a large gravestone next to EDMUND and ANNE's graves in the Llanedi churchyard.
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Cae Corryn Farm
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Notation on back of
photograph, made by Rachel Lloyd, 3rd great granddaughter of Morgan Pugh
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The photograph was taken in
1920 and was provided by David Daves, great grandnephew of Rachel Lloyd
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The PUGH family were known as supporters of Methodism.
Gomer Roberts describes Henry PUGH as intervening with the local squire in
favor of a Methodist man preaching in front of the church. Henry's wife
Ann was one of the "founders of the fellowship at Capel Hendre."
In 1792 ANNE’S father MORGAN PUGH had his will witnessed by two friends
Griffith and Daniel Morgan, who were "guiding lights of Goppa
Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Pontarddulais," according
to Derek Williams. These actions and associations occurred during the
period of internal differences about reform within a single church body,
and long before the Welsh Methodists separated from the Anglican church
in 1811 after strong objections to the split by Howel Harris, the major
Methodist leader in Wales, whom Rev EDMUND admired greatly according to
his own letter to Harris in 1771. During that same period the PUGHs continued to christen their children and bury their dead in the Llanedi parish church, and the large graveyard
monument for Henry PUGH’s whole family in 1833, would seem to indicate
that despite their desire for reform in the Church of England/Wales and
their liking for the warm, informal, non-liturgical Methodist
spirituality, they remained faithful Anglican members, as did Rev EDMUND
himself.
The local newspaper, the Carmarthen Journal dated 13 December 1833, commented upon the funerals of ANNE PUGH LEIGH and her brother Henry PUGH, which by chance occurred in the same week, as follows: "She was nearly 70 years a communicant of the Church of England and adorned her Christian profession by her personal virtues. Also, at the same place, much lamented, on the 12th instant, the day Mrs Leigh was interred, Mr. Henry Pugh, aged 100 years [was buried]; ;and it is a remarkable fact that they both entered the pale of the church the same day, and were buried the same week. He also remained in communion with the church till his death" (p.3. col. 6).
78 ANNE LEIGH
80 DANIELLEIGH
81 John LEIGH (chr 7 Nov 1778 - 11 Nov 1778 Llanedi)82. Rev. Samuel LEIGH (chr 7 Feb 1780 Llanedi - aft 20 Apr 1831 ?Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire). Father: 74 Rev. EDMUND LEIGH
md Elizabeth HANDLEY on 16 Jul 1811 in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.Rev. Samuel was ordained a deacon on 25 Sep 1803 and the next day licensed as curate under his father in Llandielo Talybont, then he was ordained a priest on 23 Sep 1804, according to the St David’s Clergy List Transcription Project made available on the internet by Paul Vivash (June 2001). In 1818 he translated to English the Welsh funeral poem in honor of his father Rev. EDMUND LEIGH. His later career as priest is unclear, but he was curate or officiating minister in the English parish of Chipping Norton in 1814 and for much of 1820-31, then he disappears from the Bishop’s Transcripts (Film no.0095229). No children of his own were christened in that time, though his marriage was given. His wife Elizabeth may have been the woman of that name buried in Chipping Norton on 28 December 1829, but if so she was not identified as his wife and she was fourteen years older than her husband, who was then 49 years old. That reference to the burial of Elizabeth LEIGH age 64 was the only LEIGH reference found in the Chipping Norton parish records (Film no.95229).86 Edmund LEIGH (chr 14 Jun 1789 - 20 May 1803 Llanedi)Several birth and death dates of Edmund's children appear in various records, but their source is unknown. We have used the christening and burial dates from the Bishop's Transcripts (Films no.105162 and no.104472). The step-brother DAVID is confirmed in SAMUEL LEIGH's manuscript journal. See Edmund's biography for all that we have learned of this energetic, well-loved country parson and his children.
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