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Thank you, Deb! For your interest, at some time, for some reason, in Moses Davies!

My principal source is the "Family Notes", written by another son, David, who followed his elder brother William into sculpture and London, and was my great-grandfather. His a hand-written account in an exercise book extends to nearly 200 pages. David describes family life in Merthyr, his father's work, commercial and as a musician and choirmaster, and his own life in London. It has not been published - I doubt it ever could be! - so I cannot use it as a reference, but I donated a copy of a transcription to the Merthyr Public Library some time ago. Sad to say, they cannot find it (!) and worse, neither can I some several changes of computer later. It has been lost in some old hard drive, so I am transcribing it again.

I feel I know Moses well. My own grandfathers died before I was born so he has been a patriarchal figure. From his son's account, he was a considerable personality, and he is 'around', as David, a sculptor like William, made a full length, quarter sized figurine of Moses as an elderly man, seated and reading a newspaper, that was in my family's home and now in my house. "Great Big Grandpa" has been in my life since I can remember, and will be in those of my son and grandsons, their great^4 grandfather!

I know the Wiki and often consult it, but have never thought of contributing, or of looking Moses up there, until today when, bored by lockdown, I did so. I will study the tutorial you sent, and if it seems appropriate propose some additions to the Wiki entry for Moses. I'll start by creating a Wiki account!

Best wishes, John Davies — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:A52A:B601:85C3:4573:7C1B:A458 (talk) 16:02, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

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Moses Davies

Hi. There are a couple of things you should understand about Wikipedia. One is that articles don't belong to anyone, although there is a Welsh Wikipedians' Notice Board and a few other places where you will be able to discuss these topics with people who are likely to be interested. The person who created the article seems to have given up, or at least they haven't edited for about three years. I was the last person to edit it but I forget what led me there. However, you have done the right thing in asking me rather than trying to change the article yourself. The second thing you need to know is that the information we include in any article has to be able to be verified in what are called "reliable sources". That effectively means published sources. So documents such as census records would be allowed, but others, such as unpublished letters or a family Bible, for example, wouldn't be acceptable. If you want to go any further with this, please give me an idea what sources you have and we'll see if there is anything that can be, or needs to be, added to the article.Deb (talk) 13:42, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

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