The Detroit times., 1909-01-28
WOMAN TOLLS AND
KEEPS FAMILY IN
FISH VILLAGE
NAN ROCKS CRADLE AND is NO.
TicEA6LY IN BACKGROUND -
PLAN TO Assign LIVERPOOL uN.
FoRTUNATEs.
BY RICHARD A8ERCoRN.
Especial Cable TO The Times.)


LONDON. Jan 2S-There is one
place In the British isle where the
motto The hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world" falls fiat, and that is
In Llaagwm, a little oyster village on
an estuary of the great harbor of Mil
ford Haven. for In Llangwm II ls the
man that rocks the cradle. When you
speak or Llangwm, YOU mean the Liam
swm women Ii rs she VINO goes ont
fishing; II is she who quantity dressed
In short home-spun skirt. felt hat and
red shawl. and with donkey pannier,
hawks her oysters and fish round the
countryside, and IL is she who holds
the purse and dresses the family in
Guiding her man. She holds sway by
the moral suaslon OF physical force
She is Il match for a varsity rowing
blue in points. any waterman In
strength and any fisherman round tn"
coasts OF fouI nations In doggedness
against wind and tide, in undaunted-
ness in "a high sea, or in net handling
Mentally. SHE Is quite up TO the times
Llangwm women were among the FIRST
to apply for small holdings. Llangwm
has banished the public house, and
there are many Llangwm women await
ing old age pensions. Needless 10 say
she is a Liberal Her life is severe
and spartan. Her religion is OF the
breed OF that OF Cromwell's lronsides.
The llangwm man Is somewhere In the
background. He is domestic ami
pal lie has not even claim TO his
own name He is Mary Palmer's
man" or Bessie Liewellin's son.
There is no off-hand talk of the wife
or 1.-The missus' in Llangwm.
An attempt is being made In Liver
FOOL To alleviate many OF those cases
in which pride and poverty are trag-
ically blended II is a departure from
the ordinary methods OF relieving dis
tress, and the opportunity OF bringing
IL about is due 20 the generous public
spirit or Sir Peter Carlaw Walker. the
head OF the w2ll-known firm Of brew
els. Messrs IT, Lee Jones, Ii. Ashley
Shute and T.. Ellis. The CHIEF aim or
the fund is TO reach those on the verge
o; starvation whose pride prevents
their appealing for or divulging their
poverty Through the Inauguration OF
this fund cases have been discovered
where the people concerned were once
weiI.to-do. 70 such a class Sir Peter
Walkers benefactions-wh is said
TO he 81 600 .000--has come as an In
having assured the organizers OF the
genuineness of case, relief Is admin
istered with the greatest secrecy
A strange romance OF secret mar
al Itt fsa,.in %.
tales has just come TO light About
a month ago, Capt Thomas Ereke
Lewis Of Moyne Court, near Chepstow
and Abbeydore court, Herefordshire,
died. He was buried at ST. Pierre.
Chepstow. the family burial place. IL
was generally thought that he was d
widower and the supposed heir to the
estates in the two counties or Mon
mouth and Hereford was present az
the funeral But since then rnmors
have been afloat that Capt. Erekc
Lewis left a wife and two children.
Inquiries prove that this is true. AMI
that the captain has left his estates
TO the CHILDREN OF the secret marriage
ana his wife.
A sprcal interest in the affair arises
from the fact mat Lewis, at the time
of his death, was described as the last
OF the IewiSes OF 81. Pierre who had
occupied their estate near Chepstow
since 1350-and the last in the direct
line of the great family OF Morgan,
from which Viscount Tredegar, the
hero Of Baaklava Is descended or.
local archologist wrote: He was the
last of the old family Of Lewis, OF st.
Pierre. and also the last male de-
scendant OF Llewelyn at lvey, Lord or
the rredegar Though not a"Morgan
by name. he was the last Of the Nor
cans in the direct line. Llewelyn had
three sons. The eldest Morgan re
ceived the paternal estate of Trede-
gar. the second was Ivor Hazel. inc
lcrd of Gwern Cleppana. patron of the
great Welsh poet Dafydd Gwilym. For
his third son. Philip. he bought the
state OF st. Pierre about the year 1850.
and from that day right down to the
present line there has always been
a Lewis OF ST Pierre In the County or
Monmouth.
How il came about that all the coun-
ty was ignorant that Capt. Ereke
Lewis had married again and that ne
left Il son and a daughter there Is no
examinations tits first wife, by whom
there was no issue, died In 1899, after
over 40 years OF married. life. As
Capt. Erekc Lewis was "a years OF
age nj his death he must have been
well advanced IN years at his second
marriage to Miss Morgan. whose
house was in the neighborhood Of his
Abbcydere estate in Golden Valley,
Hercfordshire
she lives at charming little house