1842 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1842 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1842 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of AngleseyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williamshttps://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300006802-penpont-including-attached-conservatory-and-rear-service-ranges-trallong#.YakSuNDP3cs Penpont including attached conservatory and rear service ranges British Listed Buildings 2 December 2021Edwin Poole The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions Edwin Poole 1886 378 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de EresbyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulphhttps://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872 Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx. History of Parliament Online 5 December 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of WestminsterOld Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders not known William Retlaw Williams "Old Wales" Office 1907 3 106 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron MostynEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury LeighAmy Audrey Locke The Hanbury Family Arthur L. Humphreys 1916 147 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powiss-POWY-HER-1674 Herbert family (earls of Powis) Evan David Jones 1959 30 November 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st BaronetThorne R.G. John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 History of Parliament 27 March 2020 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron RodneyJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115William Stockdale Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom 1833 86 Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305 Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston Bishop of St Asaph – William CareyCarey, William (1769-1846)The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Connop ThirlwallOld Yorkshire, volume 3 1882 90 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95 Events 12 April – Chartist Convention meets in London to arrange to submit another petition to parliament. Delegates include Morgan Williams, who brings with him a petition signed by 36,000 people from south Wales. 7 May – John Bennion of Flintshire, and his wife Elizabeth, arrive in Nauvoo on the John Cummins to join the Mormon community. 12 June – The first Welsh language service in Waukesha County, USA, is held at Bronyberllan, home of Richard "King" Jones. July The Rebecca Riots, which had seen sporadic outbreaks in 1839, begin in earnest.Paul O'Leary Claiming the Streets: Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, C.1830-1880 https://books.google.com/books?id=mMAmDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 15 October 2012 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-275-8 194 Boughrood bridge completed over the River Wye. August – Workers at Cyfarthfa and Penydarren ironworks join the general strike. 30 August – Sir William Nott defeats the Afghans at Ghazni.Tony Jaques Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh6jydKXikoC&pg=PA392 2007 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-33538-9 392 10 October – The Town Dock at Newport is opened.Charles Frederick CLIFFE The Book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire and the Wye ... Illustrated with maps and engravings https://books.google.com/books?id=eS95RjrKJgYC&pg=PA85 1848 Hamilton, Adams & Company 85 date unknown Missionary Thomas Jones produces his first Khasi Reader and his translation of a Welsh-language work Rhodd Mam ("A Mother's Gift") into the Khasi language.https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-THO-1810 Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam) Robert Thomas Jenkins Dictionary of Welsh Biography 18 April 2019 A Royal Commission chaired by Robert Hugh Franks reports on the employment of children in the coal industry in South Wales. They find that children as young as six are working twelve-hour shifts underground. A stone viaduct is built to carry the Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway Railway.Stephen Hughes The Archaeology of an Early Railway System: The Brecon Forest Tramroads https://books.google.com/books?id=C-pzUWrCU5sC&pg=PA325 1990 Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales 978-1-871184-05-1 325 Henry Robertson arrives in Wales to work as an engineer. Later he settles near Wrexham and builds Palé Hall. John Cory and his family move to the docks area of Cardiff and open a ship's chandlery business.Meic Stephens The new companion to the literature of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ 23 September 1998 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1383-1 121 Henry Hussey Vivian takes over the management of the Liverpool branch of the firm of Vivian and Sons. A Calvinistic Methodist mission to "the Welsh people in France" is established by Rev James Williams and his wife in Brittany.Sir Thomas Phillips Wales: The Language, Social Condition, Moral Character, and Religious Opinions of the People, Considered in Their Relation to Education: With Some Account of the Provision Made for Education in Other Parts of the Kingdom https://books.google.com/books?id=C2Q1AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA570 1849 J. W. Parker 570 Two explosions at the Blackvein Colliery in Crosskeys result in a total of five deaths. Arts and literature New books Charles James Apperley (Nimrod) – The Life of a Sportsman Anne Beale – Poems Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) – A History of Wales to the Death of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 14Wales - Zygophyllaceae https://books.google.com/books?id=4_9eAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA222 1843 222 Music John Orlando Parry – Anticipations of Switzerland Births 12 February – Megan Watts Hughes, singer (died 1907)James Duff Brown Stephen Samuel Stratton British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors, and Composers Born in Britain and Its Colonies https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.154100 1897 S.S. Stratton 11 March – Sarah Edith Wynne, singer (died 1897)s-WYNN-EDI-1842 Wynne, Sarah Edith ('Eos Cymru'; 1842-1897), vocalist Robert David Griffith 1959 5 December 2021 29 March – Emilia Baeyertz, née Aronson, Jewish-born Christian evangelist (died 1926 in England) 15 April – John Hughes (Glanystwyth), minister (died 1902) 14 June – William Abraham (Mabon), politician (died 1922)s-ABRA-WIL-1842 Abraham, William (Mabon; 1842-1922), M.P. and first president of the South Wales Miners' Federation Huw Morris-Jones 1959 5 December 2021 28 September – William John Parry, quarrymen's leader (died 1927)s-PARR-JOH-1842 PARRY, WILLIAM JOHN (1842 - 1927), Labour leader, and author 12 September 2019 31 October – Moses Owen Jones, musician (died 1908) 19 December – Daniel Thomas Phillips, minister and American consul (died 1905) Deaths 26 May – Benjamin Heath Malkin, antiquary and author, 73Report of the general meeting of the Camden Society for the publication of early historical and literary remains ... on Tuesday the 2nd May 1843: (Council.) Acc. 1, Works of the Camden Society. 2, Laws of the Camden Society. 3, Members of the Camden Society for the fifth year, ending 2 May 1843 https://books.google.com/books?id=uz5SAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA26 1843 1 September – William Ouseley, orientalist, 73P. Thankappan Nair Proceedings of the Asiatic Society: bk. 1 and 2. 1833-1841, James Prinsep's period The Asiatic Society 1980 1978 10 November – John Jones of Ystrad, politician, 65https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/jones-john-1777-1842 JONES, John (1777-1842), of Ystrad Lodge, Carm. History of Parliament Online 28 January 2019 5 August 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190805075942/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/jones-john-1777-1842 dead 22 December – Thomas Phillips, minister and writer, 70s-PHIL-THO-1772 Phillips, Thomas (1772-1842), Congregational minister, and master of Neuadd-lwyd school, Cardiganshire John Dyfnallt Owen 1959 5 December 2021 See also 1842 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1842 in Europe Category:1840s in Wales