This name relates to several Price families in the area.
Jane Price of Cwrt Carnau, Penllegaer, married Rev. Evan Seys and gave birth to the last of the Boverton Seys, Jane, b.1750, who married Robert Jones of Fonmon. Her brother, Thomas bought Dyffryn St. Nicholas.
Benjamin Price of Flanders Farm was a wealthy currier here in the nineteenth century.
The Price family of The Hayes was headed by Richard Price who made his fortune as a builder and who built this large house near the Town Hall in 1889. He married Jane Andrews and here they brought up six children. One of the most notable was Andrew Price who served in South Africa early in the 18th century. [See Vol.2]
Artist’s impression of Benjamin Price (image is a generic 19th Century currier)
