Hi Elaine
I've just linked up with this message board in June 2004, so I hope you'll read this! I tried to contact your e-mail address directly, but it was returned.
I've recently been told by my elderly aunt that my great grandmother Elizabeth, her grandmother, was probably a Pembro, which I am now researching. If this is so, we may have a link. She mentioned in her letter that "the Pembro family owned all the quarries in the area, and did until the 1980s. Aunt Libet (her aunt, probably the Elizabeth you refer to), she was a Pembro lived in Ynysddu in Commercial Road. She was a widow with one daughter, Gwendolyn, who died of a brain tumour (In the 1940s?). We were first cousins. Aunt Libet was married to Mr Bream (could be your Harry Brean?). They were all buried in Twyn Gwyn Chapel. The Pembros were a well known family, quite well-to-do. They still live in the area round Cross Keys, I think."
My 95 year old aunt is my last link with my family from South Wales and she lives in Australia. She has been helping fill in cracks in my knowledge, but I think there is a definite link with the Pembros on the 1901 census and the 1881 census, if only I could find it.
My Great grandmother Elizabeth (Pembro?) married Lewis Lewis and lived at Pantyffynnon farm till she died in 1889, aged 47. If anyone else can fill in details for me, I'd be very grateful.
Janet