Vera Bassett descends from #202B Anthony Bassett of Wales as follows:<\/p>\n
Anthony Bassett (b. 1720) and wife Margaret Griffith
\nAnthony Bassett (b. 1746) and wife Catherine John
\nJohn Bassett (b. 1783) and wife Jane Samuel
\nDaniel Bassett (b. 1830 and wife Mary Morgans
\nJohn Bassett (b. 1849) and wife Elizabeth
\nWilliam John Bassett (b. 1884) and wife Mary Sarah Lloyd
\nVera Bassett (b. 1912)<\/p>\n
Pontardualais Town Council<\/p>\n
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 \u2013 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\u2019s shop on St. Teilo Street. His father, J. Rhys Morgan, had established the Spot newspaper about 1920. It ran to 1938.<\/p>\n
While on my recent trip to England and Wales, I visited the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. I ran across the following painting.<\/p>\n
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 … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/VeraBasset1t.jpg\")
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