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Peter was born into a family of carpenters from Corfe, near Taunton in Somerset in 1826 to
Peter and Elizabeth Oliver who was born in Chishidon in Devon. Peter learned carpentry from his father, Peter, and maybe even his grandfather Stephen who was born in Silverton, Devon
who was also a carpenter.When Peter travelled to work in many places doing mostly agriultural labour. He worked in Culmstock, Devon in
1841, and North Petherton, near Corfe in 1851. By the early 1860s Peter was living and working in Pontypool, and Abersychan. He met Eliza Price whose
parents were tailors from Herefordshire. In the Spring of 1864 they married. Maybe Peter travelled to Wales via a boat from Watchet to
Cardiff. He Eliza Price, who was born in Pontypool around 1834 to Edward and Amelia Price. After conceiving their youngest son Edward
died and Amelia quickly remarried to a Mr Pecker, but within a year Amelia was again a widow. Before marrying Peter, Eliza seems to have
married a Mr Morgan who also died which would
explain the confusion around her maiden name. Peter worked as a gas man in Pontypool. Their first
child was a daughter named Annie Sophia born around 1866. In around 1868 Eliza gave birth to a son named William. The family then moved down to 19, Peter Street, in Bath, where Peter work as a blacksmith. Here they had a daughter named Rachel Rose on the 10th October 1870, before they returned to Pontypool. Rachel Rose went by her middle name, Rose, as she grew older. After the family returned to Pontypool, the next child to be born was a daughter named Elizabeth Jane on 21st December 1873. In 1876 Herbert was born, and 4 years later in 1880 Emily was born. At some point the Oliver family moved into Albion Road Pontypool. When Rose was old enough she moved to Newport. By 1896 her father had died. In Newport she met a man named Frank, Francis Walter Morris, who came for Chipping Norton, in Oxfordshire. He was born to George and Ann Morris who were both wool weavers. Frank's father, George died before he was nine years old. The family then moved to Mill Road, in Pontypool.Eliza died aged 50 years old in the summer of 1889. Elizabeth by this was a seamstress in the parish. She met a young miner named Samuel John Barnes and they married at Abersychan Parish Church on 5th August 1893. Samuel and Elizabeth moved to Gwent Street, and Elizabeth gave birth to a son at her mother-in-laws home at 7 Moreton Street. This was Herbert George who was born on 9th August 1895. Rose lived at Thorn Tree House, no doubt working as a domestic, in Park Square, and Frank lived in Ruperra Street. Frank was working in the iron industry. In the summer of 1896 Peter, Rose's father died. Rose and Frank married 23rd December 1896 at the Welsh Baptist Chapel in George Street, Newport. After the marriage they moved to Camelot Place, nearby. On 20th September 1898 at home at 17 Gwent Street, Elizabeth gave birth to another son, named Samuel Lionel. Shortly after this Samuel her husband signed up for the South African Mounted Rifles, for the Boer War. Unfortunately Samuel deserted and returned to Pontypool, but he could not stay home and avoid arrest and probable death sentence, so he boarded the maiden voyage of the Lusitania in 1907 in Liverpool, set for safety in America. Elizabeth was now left with two sons and an ailing sister, Sophie. Elizabeth was introduced to Thomas Lewis from Abertillery, who was a widower. Samuel's older brother Oliver had married Thomas's younger sister, Sarah Ann lewis and they lived a few doors away. Eventually Thomas and Elizabeth married and moved to Blackwood. Elizabeth also had two sons with Thomas, L.Reginald, and Harold Melville. . Elizabeth received letters and furs from samuel in New Mexico, USA, and this angered Thomas. Thomas died in a pit accident in 1929. Samuel out lived Elizabeth and his two sons. Elizabeth died of a stroke in 1941, Herbert died in Ramsgate from Cancer, in about 1943, and samuel known as Lionel died in 1946 from stomach Cancer. Later Rose and Frank moved away from industrial South Wales, and back to the South West of England, Ilfracombe, Devon, which wasn't so far from where Rose's family originally came from. They never had children, but they opened a guest house, and Frank cooked, and in the Summer Rose's Welsh friends and relations would take Paddle Steamers from Cardiff to Ifracombe for there holidays, in the Summer time. Rose also sent fish parcels to Elizabeth in Blackwood. |
