Vera Bassett descends from #202B Anthony Bassett of Wales as follows:
Anthony Bassett (b. 1720) and wife Margaret Griffith
Anthony Bassett (b. 1746) and wife Catherine John
John Bassett (b. 1783) and wife Jane Samuel
Daniel Bassett (b. 1830 and wife Mary Morgans
John Bassett (b. 1849) and wife Elizabeth
William John Bassett (b. 1884) and wife Mary Sarah Lloyd
Vera Bassett (b. 1912)
Pontardualais Town Council
Vera Bassett held her first one-woman exhibition in the Hendy Urdd Centre in 1943, followed by others at the Mechanics Institute in the Bont in 1948 and the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, in 1949. She was born on the Fforest, Pontardulais, in 1912, and lived in Glenview and, after 1946, at 7, Fforest Road. Her parents were William John Bassett, a furniture salesman, and Mary Sarah Lloyd – they married in 1907. They had six children, of whom Vera was the youngest. She married William Owen Reynolds in 1956 and they moved to Bury Port in 1969. Vera died in 1997. In 1938 her sister, Edna, married Gethin Morgan, who later ran the Spot newsagent’s shop on St. Teilo Street. His father, J. Rhys Morgan, had established the Spot newspaper about 1920. It ran to 1938.
While on my recent trip to England and Wales, I visited the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. I ran across the following painting.
