James Andrew was baptised on 3rd.  February 1828 in High Bickington. At about  two years of age, he and his two sisters  and parents John and Ann, all moved to  Swansea in search of a more prosperous  life. Sometime after 1847 when the family  were living at Queen Street, he met Mary  Jane Bennallack. The Bennallack family  had moved from Foxhole to Pleasant  Street, around the corner from James.  Their origins were in Redruth, Cornwall,  and are detailed separately. James and  Mary Jane were married on the 6th. March  1853 and on the 30th. July that year their  first child Emily Bennallack Andrew was  born. James and Mary went on to have ten  children, although three died in infancy. In age order they were:- Emily Bennallack 1853, James  Francis 1854, Harriet 1856, Harriet 1858, Joshua 1860, Joshua 1861, Francis 1863, Elizabeth Ann  1865, William John 1867 and Sydney in 1870.  James Andrew did not follow family tradition and go into the brewing and malting business. He  started off as an apprentice gardener but quickly changed to become a sawyer working in a saw  pit. He later became a topman, which meant that he was in control of the operation at the top of  the sawpit. His son Joshua was a stonemason but all of the other sons became house painters. 

Francis Andrew

QUICK  LINKS William Andrew,     1731 William Andrew,    1763  John Andrew,     1792 James Andrew,     1828 Francis Andrew,    1863 Daniel Andrew,    1885 Daniel Andrew,     1913 Colin Andrew,    1953 Philip Andrew,     1774 Joseph Andrew,     1804 Francis Bennallack,1806 Daniel David c.    1823 James Mock,    1804 William Owen,     1805 William Owen,     1828 George Owen,     1849 Mary Owen,       1896  Mary Owen,     1917 Joshua Short,    1803 William Andrew,    1867 Sydney Andrew,    1870 Thomas Avery,    1807 Belsen    1945

Two of James’s sons: Francis, left and James Francis, right

James Francis Andrew