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HOWELL DAVIES OF FELINGWM

Many devotees of science fiction will be familiar with the name of the author Andrew Marvell. What they may not know, however, was that this was a nom de plume – the real Andrew Marvell was in fact Howell Davies, born at Cwrt Farm in the small village of Felingwm Uchaf, between Brechfa and Nantgaredig in the parish of Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire, on 3 September 1896. In 1819, a Daniel Davies, a member of the Welsh Saints, who with his family later helped set up a Welsh Morman community in Utah, married Sarah Thomas, of Cwrt Farm. This began the link between the farm and Davies family, whose family group was spread throughout the local area. The Census of 1901 shows three servants and six children at Cwrt Farm – probably the great-grandson of Daniel Davies and his family, also Daniel Davies, and his wife Dinah – one of whom was our subject, Howell Davies.

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