DAVIES
,
DAVID
(
1753
-
1820
),
Methodist cleric
;
b.
1753
, son of
John
and
Catherine
Davies
of
Pen-y-bont
,
Newcastle Emlyn
. His parents were the leading supporters of the
Methodist connexion
in that town, and the society used, at one time, to meet at their house. There was a
David
Davies
,
curate
of
Llanddarog
and
Llanarthney, Carms.
,
1769-1785
, who was a strong
Methodist
but, if the age recorded on his tombstone is correct, the subject of the present note was only 16 years of age in
1769
. He became
rector
of
Llanfyrnach
and
Penrieth
,
Pembs.
[
9 Dec. 1797
], and co-operated with the
Methodists
until the secession in
1811
. He was one of the
trustees of the chapel
at
Newport, Pembs.
, which the
Methodists
lost in
1811
, when he repudiated them. He d.
18 Oct. 1820
. His tombstone is in
Llanfyrnach
churchyard.
Bibliography:
- Parish register, Llanfyrnach;
-
Methodistiaeth Cymru
, 1851–6
, ii, 459-61;
-
D. E. Jenkins
,
Calvinistic Methodist Holy Orders
,
1911
, 217;
-
A History of Carmarthenshire
, 2 vols.,
1935–9
, ii, 199;
-
Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid
Calfinaidd
, xxxiii, 74 ff.;
-
[
West Wales Historical Records
,
1910–29
, ii, 245].
Author:
Rev. Gomer Morgan Roberts, M.A., (1904-93), Pont-rhyd-y-fen / St
Dogmael's / Llandybïe
