EVAN(S)
,
JAMES
(
Carneinion
;
1814
-
1842
),
Trefgarn, Pembs.
,
Congregationalist lay preacher, and author
of
Y Cristion Dyddorgar; neu, Lawlyfr i Broffeswyr Crefydd
(
Llanelly
,
1839
); b. at
Tre-aser-fach
in the parish of
Brawdy, Pembs.
,
28 June 1814
, son of
John
and
Martha
Evans
. He became completely
blind
when he was only 13 years old, but despite this handicap began to
preach
in
1832
. He travelled about considerably;
N.L.W. MS. 3091
contains an account of a journey which he and
Thomas
Nicholas
(q.v.)
made from
Trefgarn
to
Liverpool
in
1838
. He d.
5 June 1842
and was buried at
Brawdy
two days later.
Bibliography:
-
Rhestr gyda nodiadau byrion, o Enwogion
Cymreig o 1700 i 1900
. National Eisteddfod
Association, 1908
, 123-4;
-
National Library of Wales Manuscript
3094.
Author:
Miss Rhiannon Francis Roberts, M.A., (1923-90), Aberystwyth
