He was born on the 1^st. November 1849 in the Hamlet of St.  Thomas. As William Owen’s eldest son he started work in 1859 with  his father in the foundry, at the age of about ten. The foundry was not to his liking however and he continued his working life as a trainee  mariner, probably working initially on the coastal vessels taking coal  to West Wales and the West of England. The earliest records so far  found in 1867 show George Owen working as a ship’s apprentice on  the Swansea registered barque “Hawkeye” and there are several  later records from the same ship and also from the barque  “Glenudal”. Both of these barques regularly sailed the Chilean run to  Valparaiso from where orders were taken to collect cargo from  Antofagasta or La Serena. These routes were part of the Swansea  copper ore trade although other cargo was also transported.  George Owen married Eliza Rees on Christmas Day, 1876. She  came from Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire but nothing else is  known about her. Her parents were William and Emma Rees who  came from North Pembrokeshire and moved to Swansea after 1871, living at Riverside, Foxhole.  Initially George and Eliza lived at Foxhole, probably with Eliza's parents but by 1881 they were  living at 23 Sebastopol Street with eleven other people! It is likely that in such a crowded house  they only had one room to themselves. They had two sons, William George and Albert Edward.  Eliza Owen suffered for two years with phthisis pulmonalis, essentially consumption or TB, and  died on 20^th. March 1882, aged just 26 years. George Owen re-married on 29^th. October 1887 at St. Peter's Church, Cockett. He had met  Mary Whalen, an Irish immigrant to Wales. Following his marriage to Mary Whalen, George's two  sons William George and Albert Edward lived with him and their stepmother Mary. George and  Mary Owen had four children, Rachel Mary born 1888, Edith Maud born 1890, Joseph Brinley  born 1891 and Mary Sophia born in 1896, although their first child Rachel, only lived for seven  months. 

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