DAVIES About 25 per cent of the 160,000 Davies who were recorded in the 1891 census were living in Glamorgan.
EVANS In 1881 there were 19,519 Evans’s in Glamorgan, 10,735 in Cardiganshire, 7,618 in Carmarthenshire, 2,033 in Brecknockshire and 5,090 in Monthmouthshire.
JENKINS Glamorgan had Wales’s highest population of Jenkins families in 1891.
JONES Common throughout Wales, there were 32,780 Jones’s recorded in Glamorgan in 1881, 20,030 in Denbighshire and 27,472 in Carnarvonshire (now Caernarfonshire).
LEWIS According to the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names Lewis derives from the Norman name Lowis/Lodovicus, which has Germanic roots.
MORGAN This surname derives from the Old Welsh name Morcan.
ROBERTS Although broadly more common in North Wales, 3,424 Roberts were recorded in Glamorgan in 1881.
THOMAS No fewer than 27,949 Thomases were recorded in…