Light (Gloucestershire, Pontllanfraith)

Isaac LIGHT married Mary CAMBORNE (d. of Andrew and Mary Camborne) at Tormarton with West Littleton in 1751. Their children included James (bapt. 1752, Tormarton), Sarah (1757), Thomas (1759), John (1762), William (1765) and Samuel (1767) all bapt. at St James, Mangotsfield.

Thomas (1759) married Priscilla LOVELL, d. of Charles and Mary (born BURCHILL) at Mangotsfield in 1785. Their children included Thomas (bapt 10 Dec 1786), and Samuel (1788), both at Mangotsfield.

Mangotsfield St James, right.

Mangotsfield is in the south Gloucestershire coalfield close to Bristol (which has since absorbed it). Thomas was quite probably a miner there, because he was a collier living at Pantycelyn, Pontllanfraith, Monmouthshire in 1841, with his wife Hannah, and was described as a collier and widower at Pontllanfraith in 1851. He may have died by 1861 (no reference in Mynyddislwyn or Trevethin census indexes). Little is known of Hannah, other than that she was born in Monmouthshire (according to the 1841 census) and she died of insanity in 1842. Thomas, now described as a shoemaker, was lodging in Ebbw Vale in 1861. He died at Albion Road in 1865.

Dinah Light, his daughter, was born in about 1810. In the 1851 and 1881 census she gives her birthplace as Machen, and in 1861 as Mynerthisloyne, an alternative spelling then in use for Mynyddislwyn. No baptism is listed at either parish church.

Dinah married Joseph SMITH on 18 June 1836 at Mynyddislwyn parish church. Lucy Light, probably her sister, married John LEWIS, a collier, at Mynyddislwyn in 1840. Her address and that of Thomas Light, witness and probably her father, was Pontllanfraith. 

In the 1881 census Dinah is a widow of Albion Road, Pontypool, and her occupation laundress.

Dinah died in 1897 at the Waterloo Inn, Trosnant, home of daughter Eliza, then wife of John POULSOM.