Trinidad

Trinidad was built before 1911.

On the 1911 census William Kidner and his wife Lucy are in residence, William is 43, an iron moulder born in Glascoed, his wife Lucy is 44 born in Abergavenny.

William married Lucy Thomas in Abergavenny in December 1899.

The poor rate of 1914 is issued to William H Kidner.

An advert was placed in the Free Press in 1914 selling point of lay leghorn pullets at 4s 6d each – apply Kidner, Trinidad, Goytre.

By 1915 William and Lucy had moved to Pentovey Place, Little Mill where William died on the 28th October 1915 aged 44. He left £159 2s 3d to his wife Lucy May.

On the 1921 census Lucy is a housekeeper for two brothers at 7 King Street Abergavenny.

On the 1921 census at Trinidad is a 51 year old widow Mary Walker, a retired farmer born in Llangwm, living with her are her two daughters, Mary Rhoda 25 and Gladys Clara 22, both were born in Goytre.

Gladys Clara Walker married William Arthur Evans a motor proprietor of Clarence Street Pontypool at St Peter’s Church on June 11 1923, followed by Rhoda Mary who married Frederick Joseph Walters also at St Peter’s on August 6 1923, Frederick was a collier and lived at Glan-y-nant Little Mill.

On August 8th 1925 at St Peter’s Church Ethel May Walker of Trinidad Goytrey married Charles Henry Denner, Charles was a butcher from Finchley.

It appears the Walker family left Trinidad late1925 as the electoral register gives Sarah Ann Voyce in residence. Sarah Ann (nee Williams) was born in Goytre, she had married James Voyce.

On the 1911 census they were living at Gafr Llwyd. Sarah Ann died in 1926.

In 1930 Fred and Polly Walters were in residence.

On the 1939 register John Roberts, a general labourer, his wife Ann and Anthony B Crump are living at Trinidad.

 

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