Rev'd Owen EVANS

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: of Hen Dy Cwrdd Unitarian Church, Cefn-Coed-y-Cwmmer; had issue by second wife. EVANS , OWEN (1808 - 1865), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster ; b. 25 April 1808 at Burlip , Llandysul, Cards. He was educated at Davis of Castellhywel 's school until he went to Carmarthen Academy ( 1826-30 ). After that, he returned to Burlip , preaching occasionally at Pant-y-defaid and opening a school at Llandysul and later at ' The College ,' Maesymeillion ( 1830-4 ). He was for twelve months a schoolmaster at Evesham and Birmingham . In 1836 he accepted a call to Blaen-gwrach and in 1837 moved to Cefncoedycymer , where he remained for twenty-eight years, as minister of the Old Meeting House , and schoolmaster . His school was attended by a large number of pupils of all denominations. He was learned in the ancient languages and was, for years, examiner in Hebrew at Carmarthen College . He was twice m. - (1) to Jennet , daughter of David Davis of Neath , and (2) to Margaret Harries of Penderyn , a descendant of Siôn Llewelyn (q.v.) , one of the founders of the Old Meeting House . Apart from articles for the Ymofynydd he published sermons on Temporal Judgments , 1846 , and a translation of a sermon preached by the Rabbi Raphael of Birmingham on the Unity of God , 1846 , He d. 9 Jan. 1865 and was buried in the Old Meeting House cemetery at Cefn Coed. Source: Welsh Dictionary of National biography llgc.org.uk

Rev'd married Jennett Rees DAVIS, daughter of Rev'd David DAVIS and Catherine REES, in 1838 in Oat Street Unitarian Chapel, Evesham Wor. (Jennett Rees DAVIS was born on 19 Mar 1810 in Neath and died in May 1844 in Cefn-Coed-Y-Cwmmar, Bre.)

Rev'd next married Margaret HARRIES.