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children born into the Welsh-speaking family of Richard Walter Jenkins Sr. (5 March 1876 - 25 March 1957), and Edith Maude Jenkins (née Thomas; 28 January 1883 - 31 October 1927). Jenkins Sr., called Daddy Ni by the family, was a coal miner, while his mother worked as a barmaid at a pub called the Miners Arms in the village where she met her husband. They married, without approval of her parents, at Neath Register Office on 24 December 1900. According to biographer Melvyn Bragg,

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