An Anglo-Welsh teaching dynasty

by William Edward Marsden

John Adams was born in 1817 in Chapelhill in St. Twynell's parish, Pembrokeshire, Wales. His father was William Adams. He married Eliza Bateman (1819-1856) in Castlemartin in 1839. They had six children. John received teacher's training in Westminster, London. He returned to Wales where he taught school in Pembrokeshire. Three of his sons, a daughter-in-law and a grandson all became teachers. Follows their careers and families through the 1930s in Wales, Hampstead and London.