Will Evans: A Painter of Swansea’s Changing Landscape
Will Evans: A Painter of Swansea’s Changing Landscape A Life Rooted in Place, Atmosphere, and the Welsh Industrial Coastline Early Life in Swansea William Henry Evans was born in 1888 in Swansea, the only child of William Morgan Evans and Elizabeth Ann Davies marriage certificate St. Mary's Church William Morgan Evans and Elizabeth Ann Davies , who had married two years earlier at St Mary’s Church, Swansea , in 1886. His childhood unfolded in Brynmelyn , where the Evans family lived for decades at 60 Wheatfield Terrace , a modest but stable home that anchored his early years. 1891 Census The 1891 Census records the household in its simplest form: William Morgan, aged twenty‑nine, working as a tin cannister maker ; Elizabeth Ann, twenty‑seven; and their three‑year‑old son, William Henry. 1901 Census The same picture appears in 1901, the family still at Wheatfield Terrace, the father continuing his trade, the mother keeping the home, and young William—now thirteen—growing up in a ...
