Evan Owen Manuscripts,

Papers, [1871x1921], largely comprising historical and other material by or collected by Evan Owen which relates to the Welsh Baptist churches in Liverpool and surrounding districts, together with material relating to the temperance movement in Liverpool and surrounding districts, and to Baptist churches and the temperance movement in other parts of England and in Wales. Also included in the collection are essays on theological subjects by Evan Owen; letters, 1877-1921, addressed to Evan Owen; and material relating to Susannah Owen, wife of Evan Owen.

Evan Owen is listed in the Liverpool Directory of 1870 as a 'paint manufacturer' and in the 1924 Directory as an 'oil and colour merchant'. Towards the end of the nineteenth century the Baptist church decided to compile material in preparation for a history of the Liverpool Baptists and Owen was allotted the task of researching the city's Welsh Baptists and their churches. He appears to have begun this work by the turn of the twentieth century and to have continued it into the 1920s, eventually leaving a legacy comprising not only copious autograph notes but also a considerable amount of printed material. As Owen bequeathed this collection to the National Library in 1925 it is assumed that he died around this time.

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 10443-10548.

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Evan Owen, per Mr J. T. Wynne Jones; Liverpool; Bequest; 1925

Evan Owen is listed in the Liverpool Directory of 1870 as a 'paint manufacturer' and in the 1924 Directory as an 'oil and colour merchant'. Towards the end of the nineteenth century the Baptist church decided to compile material in preparation for a history of the Liverpool Baptists and Owen was allotted the task of researching the city's Welsh Baptists and their churches. He appears to have begun this work by the turn of the twentieth century and to have continued it into the 1920s, eventually leaving a legacy comprising not only copious autograph notes but also a considerable amount of printed material. As Owen bequeathed this collection to the National Library in 1925 it is assumed that he died around this time.

Title based on contents.

Formerly Evan Owen MSS 1-106.

Preferred citation: NLW MSS 10443-10548.

Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), pp. 219-226.

September 2008 & June 2011.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifan for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS, and revised by Bethan Ifan. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961); Liverpool Record Office website; Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940 (Llundain, 1953); Oxford Dictonary of National Biography on-line;

Usual copyright laws apply.

There is a further collection of Evan Owen papers, dated 1816-1921, deposited in the Liverpool Record Office.
See also the collection of Liverpool's Welsh Baptist Papers housed at Bangor University, a description of which can be accessed via the Archives Wales website at http://anwc.llgc.org.uk (in Welsh) or http://anws.llgc.org.uk (in English).

There is some information on Evan Owen's research methods in Ian Sellers: A History of the Liverpool Baptist ... [1962].

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales