Life History:

Notes:

• Note dated 17 Jan 2006 on Thomas Treharne from Eiron Treharne of Canada.
  
  Thomas Treharne (b1846 d 1917) was  the son of William (b1813 d 1892) & Mary (b1812 d 1879).  The Gwendraeth Arms, in the village of Cwmmawr, in the parish of Llanon is situated alongside the river Gwendraeth Fawr, adjacent to a bridge spanning the river.  As a result the pub has always been known locally as "the Bridge".
  
  Thomas' first wife was Ann Thomas (b1851 d1879).  There were three
  children William (b1875 d 1921) who was my grandfather, Mary Anne
  (b1876 d?) and Rees Thomas (b1877 sadly he only lived for three months)
  
  After his first wife died he married Catherine (b1862 d1885) Catherine
  like his third wife was a domestic at the pub and young?) There were two daughters Matilda and Sarah Jane to whom I shall refer to later.
  
  His third wife as you know was Margaret (although she ws known by the
  Welsh, Marged) (b1867 d1926) There was one daughter Alice (b1893
  d1981). I didn't know that Marged's maiden name was Harries.
  
  Around 1910 Thomas sold the pub to his son in law Ivor Rees who had
  married Mary Anne and had a house, Maesycelyn, built on the square in
  Cwmmawr where he retired with his wife Marged and daughters Matilda
  and Alice. The terms of the will were that that the house was there
  for his wife and two dughters so long as they remained single. Marged
  died on the 25th June 1926.  Matilda married and brought her husband
  back to live with Alice in Maesycelyn. Aunty Alice as I knew her ran a
  milliners buisness opposite Maesycelyn.  Matilda died in 1967 and her
  husband Harry ten years later. There were no children. Alice, who
  remained a spinster, moved into a residential home and on her death  the house was sold with the remaining children or their decendants as
  benificiaries.
  
  To return to Sarah Jane, she married a Thomas Harries, and I wonder, if by sheer coincidence if this is the Thomas Harries (b Bettws 1876) mentioned in your family tree, the son of David Harries and Margaret Rees, one and the same? They are of the same generation. Thomas Harries was one of the executors of Thomas' will and is described in the probate documents as being a school master.  He later opened a shop selling pianos and musical instruments which evolved to selling radios and latterly televisions ran by his son Gareth. There were six children, I can only recall the names of five of them Wynn,Mary, Bessie, Nancy & Gareth. Their shop was situated a mile from Cross Hands square on the Carmarthen Road at Carreg Hollt.
  
  Kindest Regards Eirion Treharne
  
  Note - Sue Smith.
  The Thomas Harries who witnessed the will of Thomas Treharne is a different Thomas Harries to the one in this tree.7

Sources:

• 1. Census UK 1871
• 2. Census UK 1881
• 3. Census UK 1891
• 4. Census UK 1901
• 5. Memorial Inscription
• 6. FreeBMD
• 7. Eiron Treharne