David LLOYD

1937 - 2004  (67 years)

• Name	David LLOYD
  Birth	2 Mar 1937	Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Dec 2004	196 Mount Pleasant Road, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales
  Notes	When David left school he worked in the Chemistry Laboratory at Richard Thomas and Baldwins Steelworks in Ebbw Vale. He left there to join the Royal Marines in 1956. On the 20th. August 1960 David was on leave and visiting his mother in 27 Pennant Street, ebbw Vale and on Saturday night of the 20th. August 1960 he went to the dance at the drill hall, David had been to the pub before going to the dance as the Drill Hall was alcohol free and like a lot of men needed some dutch courage to approach girls for a dance. David asked Joyce for a dance and they had a couple of dances together and then for the last waltz they danced for the last time that night. David walked Joyce home and arranged to see Joyce the following morning as he had to return to the Royal Marine Barracks, Eastney in Portsmouth that Sunday evening. This was the start of a blossoming romance which culminated in David and Joyce getting married at Christ Church, Ebbw Vale, in December 1961. The happy couple went on honeymoon to Cornwall and then to Torquay in Devon for an Idyllic two weeks. They then collected their belongings and moved down to Portsmouth together, renting a "Flat" with a shared bathroom at Francis Avenue in Southsea. This proved to be a problematical arrangement because the landlady in Joyces's words "was a very unpleasant person". Joyce found work with Vosepr Thornycrofts' shipyard, working in their drawing office as a tracer, a job she had done at RTB's in Ebbw Vale before her marriage. Joyce, one day, was taken ill at work and sent home to recover. When Joyce arrived at the flat she opened the living room door and found the landlady and the Landlady's aunt nosing through their belongings. When David found out he arranged a move to rooms at Winstanley Road, Northend in Portsmouth with a lovely landlady and her husband who were in their late sixties, a Mr and Mrs Waites. He was disabled following the removal of a lung after a T.B. infection. They were very kind to David and Joyce, a far cry from their previous miserable landlady.
  Person ID	I2227	Silk Weavers and Stay Makers
  Last Modified	2 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	William Ewart Gladstone LLOYD,   b. 25 Dec 1907, Brymbo, Wrexham, North Wales d. 5 Oct 1979, Newport, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England (Age 71 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Emily MORGAN,   b. 2 Sep 1913, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 19 Nov 1994, Abergavenny Hospital, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales (Age 81 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	26 Dec 1935	Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales
  Family ID	F564	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joyce DUNNING,   b. 14 Sep 1939, 118 Eureka Place, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 29 Feb 2016, Neville Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	12 Aug 1961	The Parish Church of Christ Church, Church Crescent, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales   [2]
  	Type: Church in Wales after Banns.
  Children	+ 1. Living + 2. Living > 3. Living
  Family ID	F567	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Oct 2025

  
  

• Photos

  David and Joyce Wedding, Christchurch, Ebbw Vale

  
  

• Sources

  [S3571] The National Identity Register for England and Wales, taken on the night of Friday, the 29th September, 1939, (FindMyPast). [S1961] From their Marriage Certificate.