Records relating to the Kenway family of Neath

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Reference
- GB 3167 NAS Z 52
Dates of Creation
- 1869-2008
Name of Creator
- Neath Antiquarian Society Archives
Language of Material
- English
Physical Description
- 10 items

Scope and Content

Photographs and personal items

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Records relating to the Kenway family of NeathNAS Z 52

Photograph of Sarah Harriet Kenway (née Reynolds), wife of Llewellyn Brock Kenway, and mother of Ethel, Gawen Pearse, Ivor, James Llewellyn, Mabel and Thomas Llewellyn KenwayNAS Z 52/1

Photograph of Mabel Kenway, daughter of Llewellyn Brock Kenway and Sarah Harriet, his wife, and granddaughter of James Kenway and Elizabeth, his wife. (Mabel was a nurse and during her career she tended to Florence Nightingale; hence the items concerning the latter which are catalogued below)NAS Z 52/2

The Book of Common Prayer. (Oxford University Press) (with Hymns Ancient and Modern. (William Clowes and Sons, London)). Inscribed: Nurse Kenway with very best wishes from Florence Nightingale Sept 16. 1906.NAS Z 52/3

Invitation to presentation of honorary freedom of City of London to Florence Nightingale at Guildhall, [London] (with description of casket to be presented to her by Corporation of City of London). (Florence Nightingale was represented by a relative at the ceremony. The casket was made of oak rather than the originally intended gold, as she requested that the money that would have been spent on this should instead be used for charitable purposes; as a result the Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen received 100 guineas)NAS Z 52/4/1-2

Ticket and order of service for memorial service for Florence Nightingale, held at St Pauls Cathedral, [London]NAS Z 52/5/1-2

Photographs of Sarah Harriet Kenway, alone and with Ethel Barrow (daughter), Gawen Pearse and Ivor Kenway (sons), and Harrison Barrow (son-in-law)NAS Z 52/6/1-2

Family tree of James Kenway, originally from Dorset, who married Elizabeth Thomas in 1836 in Neath, where they raised their family and he died in 1898, aged 86 (with genealogical information)NAS Z 52/7/1-7

Cutting from [The] Daily Telegraph concerning Florence Nightingale (including photograph of her at home in London in her final days). (She died on 13 Aug 1910)NAS Z 52/8

Photograph of statuette of Florence Nightingale at Claydon House, Buck[ingham]s[hire]NAS Z 52/9

Photograph of Alice Maud [Collen] (born 29 Nov [18]65), Daniel [Collen] (born 1 Aug [18]67) and James Kenway [Collen] (born 26 Feb [18]69) with [their parents, Daniel and Elizabeth Ann Collen]. (Elizabeth Ann was the daughter of James and Elizabeth Kenway of Neath)NAS Z 52/10