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Experience: a postcard delivered 121 years late led me to my long

Davies is the fifth most common surname in the UK, with a huge concentration in Wales, so it’s a wonder it found meI n August last year I received a message on Ancestry.com. A lady called Rhian, who shared my surname, had sent me a link to a recent BBC news story, which I read with mounting interest.The head office of the Swansea Building Society, the story said, had recently received a postcard postmarked 1903 and originally sent to a girl called Lydia Davies, who had lived at the address. Having mysteriously received the postcard 121 years after it was posted, staff were hoping to trace one of her descendants. Continue reading...


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