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Dec 24, 2020

Swansea Valley's Titanic loss


A gravestone outside the now-closed Seion Chapel in Glais records how Elizabeth Rogers of Ynys-y-mond Uchaf Farm lost three children, then her husband and - when the liner RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage - a son and ...

grandson. Titanic passengers William John Rogers and Evan Davies were both coal miners. For more about the family and the chapel - where radical 'People's Poet' Niclais y Glais was minister - use your mobile phone to scan the HistoryPoints QR codes on the gatepost. Or click here