Newport Parish Records: Examination before marriage [on 30 December 1822] of John Williams of Llacca-yr-Wydd, Verwick, Cardiganshire, farmer, that he had occupied the premises at Verwick for more than a fortnight and of Mary Bowen of Holmus, Newport, spinster, that she had lived at Holmus with her father for more than ten months. Both parties were over the age of twenty-on 9 November 1822