The Owen family were Welsh speaking and came from  Llanelli and Kidwelly. They also married into other Welsh  speaking families from Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire  and also provided an Irish connection to the Andrew Family.  It is fair to say that in the early years of the family in  Swansea, they made a significant contribution to Swansea's  history, so much so that the effects are still visible at the  time of writing in 2013. We shall see how they helped dig out  the river's New Cut, how they were instrumental in  establishing Fabian's Bay Church, and  even the Miers Street  Foundry, parts of which survive today in 2013 as a derelict  engineering workshop.  The Owen surname still lives on in Swansea, with some  family contact being re-established after almost sixty years. I  have been fortunate in meeting up with Phillip Owen, who  like us is descended from George Owen, but from his first  marriage to Eliza Rees. Mary Andrew kept in contact with  that branch of the family until the 1940’s but lost touch when  Mary and Daniel moved away from Kilvey Terrace to  Bonymaen.  The early origins of the family are uncertain due to the slight difficulty of identifying  the parents of William Owen, born 1806. There are two options here: Moses Owen of Llanelli is one possibility. Another is John Owen. Unfortunately the records are far from clear and it  has so far proved impossible to take the name back. We must resign ourselves to the fact  that, for now at least, William Owen represents the start of our family.