1842 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1842 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1842 to Wales and its people.

Incumbent[]

Monarch - Victoria

Events[]

12 April – Chartist Convention meets in London to arrange to submit another petition to parliament. Delegates include Morgan Williams, who brings with him a petition signed by 36,000 people from south Wales.
7 May – of Flintshire, and his wife Elizabeth, arrive in Nauvoo on the John Cummins to join the Mormon community.
12 June – The first Welsh language service in Waukesha County, USA, is held at Bronyberllan, home of Richard "King" Jones.
July
- The Rebecca Riots, which had seen sporadic outbreaks in 1839, begin in earnest.^[1]
- Boughrood bridge completed over the River Wye.
August – Workers at Cyfarthfa and Penydarren ironworks join the general strike.
30 August – Sir William Nott defeats the Afghans at Ghazni.^[2]
10 October – The Town Dock at Newport is opened.^[3]
date unknown
- Missionary Thomas Jones produces his first Khasi Reader and his translation of a Welsh-language work Rhodd Mam ("A Mother's Gift") into the Khasi language.^[4]
- A Royal Commission chaired by Robert Hugh Franks reports on the employment of children in the coal industry in South Wales. They find that children as young as six are working twelve-hour shifts underground.
- A stone viaduct is built to carry the Glyncorrwg Railway.^[5]
- Henry Robertson arrives in Wales to work as an engineer. Later he settles near Wrexham and builds Palé Hall.
- John Cory and his family move to the docks area of Cardiff and open a ship's chandlery business.^[6]
- Henry Hussey Vivian takes over the management of the Liverpool branch of the firm of Vivian and Sons.
- A Calvinistic Methodist mission to "the Welsh people in France" is established by Rev James Williams and his wife in Brittany.^[7]
- Two explosions at the Blackvein Colliery in Crosskeys result in a total of five deaths.

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

Charles James Apperley (Nimrod) – The Life of a Sportsman
Anne Beale – Poems
Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) – A History of Wales to the Death of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 14^[8]

Music[]

John Orlando Parry – Anticipations of Switzerland

Births[]

12 February – Megan Watts Hughes, singer (died 1907)^[9]
11 March – Sarah Edith Wynne, singer (died 1897)
15 April – , minister (died 1902)
14 June – William Abraham (Mabon), politician (died 1922)
28 September – William John Parry, quarrymen's leader (died 1927)
31 October – , musician (died 1908)
19 December – , minister and American consul (died 1905)

Deaths[]

26 May – Benjamin Heath Malkin, antiquary and author, 73^[10]
September – William Ouseley, orientalist, 73
10 November – John Jones of Ystrad, politician, 65^[11]
22 December – Thomas Phillips, minister and writer, 70

References[]

^ Paul O'Leary (15 October 2012). Claiming the Streets: Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, C.1830-1880. University of Wales Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-78316-275-8.
^ Tony Jaques (2007). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-313-33538-9.
^ Charles Frederick CLIFFE (1848). The Book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire and the Wye ... Illustrated with maps and engravings. Hamilton, Adams & Company. p. 85.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
^ Stephen Hughes (1990). The Archaeology of an Early Railway System: The Brecon Forest Tramroads. Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales. p. 325. ISBN 978-1-871184-05-1.
^ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
^ Sir Thomas Phillips (1849). Wales: The Language, Social Condition, Moral Character, and Religious Opinions of the People, Considered in Their Relation to Education: Withsome Account of the Provsion Made for Education in Other Parts of the Kingdom. J. W. Parker. p. 570.
^ Wales - Zygophyllaceae. 1843. p. 222.
^ James Duff Brown; Stephen Samuel Stratton (1897). British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors, and Composers Born in Britain and Its Colonies. S.S. Stratton.
^ Report of the general meeting of the Camden Society for the publication of early historical and literary remains ... on Tuesday the 2nd May 1843: (Council.) Acc. 1, Works of the Camden Society. 2, Laws of the Camden Society. 3, Members of the Camden Society for the fifth year, ending 2 May 1843. 1843. p. 1.
^ "JONES, John (1777-1842), of Ystrad Lodge, Carm". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 January 2019.

[1] Paul O'Leary (15 October 2012). Claiming the Streets: Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, C.1830-1880. University of Wales Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-78316-275-8.

[2] Tony Jaques (2007). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-313-33538-9.

[3] Charles Frederick CLIFFE (1848). The Book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire and the Wye ... Illustrated with maps and engravings. Hamilton, Adams & Company. p. 85.

[4] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

[5] Stephen Hughes (1990). The Archaeology of an Early Railway System: The Brecon Forest Tramroads. Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales. p. 325. ISBN 978-1-871184-05-1.

[6] Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.

[7] Sir Thomas Phillips (1849). Wales: The Language, Social Condition, Moral Character, and Religious Opinions of the People, Considered in Their Relation to Education: Withsome Account of the Provsion Made for Education in Other Parts of the Kingdom. J. W. Parker. p. 570.

[8] Wales - Zygophyllaceae. 1843. p. 222.

[9] James Duff Brown; Stephen Samuel Stratton (1897). British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors, and Composers Born in Britain and Its Colonies. S.S. Stratton.

[10] Report of the general meeting of the Camden Society for the publication of early historical and literary remains ... on Tuesday the 2nd May 1843: (Council.) Acc. 1, Works of the Camden Society. 2, Laws of the Camden Society. 3, Members of the Camden Society for the fifth year, ending 2 May 1843. 1843. p. 1.

[11] "JONES, John (1777-1842), of Ystrad Lodge, Carm". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 January 2019.

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