Richard Arnold

  General Notes:

The arrival of the Motor Car
^{Richard's grandson Ernie Pitt (Mary Ann's son) told a tale about how he had been travelling on a horse and trap with his grandfather as a very young boy (approx 1900). A new fangled motor car rumbled past causing Richard to blurt out the immortal question - "What was that farting thing??"}

NOTES FROM CONVERSATION WITH EDITH CLYDE PURNELL (nee Brown): 19/03/1994

Clyde was brought up by James & Mary Ann Pitt, of Pontnewynydd.

She recalled that her Great-Grandfather, Richard Arnold, was in fact a farmer in his own right, and NOT a Labourer - he had to give up the Farm after going blind. She remembers visiting him - every time he met her, he would beckon her over, feel her head, face & shoulders and say "My, how you've grown", and comment on the rate of her growth. She commented how everyone in Glascoed seemed to be related to each other!

Other things she said to me were that Mary Ann's sister, Aunt Nell (Ellen), lived at the first farm on the way into Glascoed - she married Reg Perrott - they were buried next to James & Mary Ann - also that Mary Ann's (four) sisters were buried in a vault by Mary Ann's grave at Glascoed.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Farm Labourer/Farmer. ⁸⁹

• Residence: Upper Twyn, Glascoed, Monmouthshire. ⁷²

• Census: 1871, 2 Apr 1871, Glascoed, Monmouthshire. ⁴³

• Census: 1881, 3 Apr 1881, Near Beech Farm, Glascoed, Monmouthshire.

• Census: 1891, 5 Apr 1881, Upper Twyn, Glascoed, Monmouthshire. ¹⁶

• Census: 1901, 31 Mar 1901, Upper Twyn, Glascoed, Monmouthshire. ¹⁸

• Medical: Blind, 1901, Upper Twyn, Glascoed, Monmouthshire. ¹⁸

Richard married Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Roger Williams and Ann Morgan, on 9 Apr 1857 in Trevethin Parish Church, Pontypool, Monmouthshire.⁴ (Elizabeth Williams was born about 1836 in Glascoed, Monmouthshire,⁶⁵ died on 1 Feb 1916 in Monmouthshire ⁷ and was buried in Feb 1916 in Mount Zion Baptist Chapel, Glascoed, Monmouthshire ⁷.)