After Jenkin's marriage and departure from Candleston, his brothers gradually followed suit. First was David (#153), the youngest, who married Anne Powell (#129), daughter of William (#462) and Catherine (#485) of Home Farm, Merthyr Mawr - the "Other" Powell family. David and Anne first moved to Angleton, Newcastle, Anne's uncle Thomas' farm, then, in 1863, they took over Warren Farm, Merthyr Mawr. This was the beginning of another tragic story. Between 1858 and 1872 David and Anne saw no less than ten children into the world. The first three, Mary Powell Davies (#497), Richard Davies (#498) and William Rhys Davies (#499), all born in Newcastle, appear to have been perfectly healthy children, and to have survived to maturity; but after the move to Warren Farm, seven more children were born to Anne, and only one survived childhood, most dying within a few months. In giving birth to her last child on 15^th March 1872, Anne herself departed this world, aged only 38, to be joined the next day by her new-born baby, Gwenllian (#136). The 1881 Census shows David still at Warren Farm with three children, Richard (#498), William (#499), and Anne (#128), by then aged 21, 20 and 11 respectively.

 

Of Jenkin's other brothers, only George (#151) remained single and remained at Candleston with his mother, Gwenllian. By the time of the 1881 Census, he was there alone, running the farm with the help of employees; Gwenllian had died, aged 78, in 1871 and was buried with her husband, Richard, at St.Teilo's, Merthyr Mawr, but not before she had attended the weddings of her other sons. Rees (#152) had married Catherine Jones (#137), daughter of Thomas Jones (#271) and Margaret Howell (#272), and sister of Rees Powell's first wife, Margaret (#143). Rees and Catherine had taken over Whitney Farm, Merthyr Mawr. Richard (#64) had married another Catherine Jones (#606) and moved to the nearby parish of Coity to farm Wild Mill; and William (#150) had married Margaret (#4560) and moved to Van Hamlet, Caerphilly, where the couple farmed Wern y Domen farm; Margaret died, childless, in 1871, and in 1873 William remarried. He and his new wife Sarah started a new life together at Stocklands Farm, St.Fagans, where they had three children before Sarah died tragically in childbirth, aged only 26, so the 1881 Census shows William as a widower at Stocklands Farm with three young children, Richard, George and the new-born baby, Gwen. Two years later, the three youngsters would be taken in by William's brothers, when he, too, died. In fact, the 1881 Census was the last one to show all of Richard and Gwenllian's sons still alive. Perhaps a good point at which to check on their whereabouts (see map).