Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Chains at Penarth Dock - Macey, Mules and Wallace Family History . . .

left - The Tower Hill Memorial with 11 of the 14 crew named, including Ivor Mules.   Captain Ramien sunk a British 60 ton fishing smack the same day, further down the coast near St Ives. However, he had his comeuppance the following year when his submarine hit a mine off Folkestone. He was captured and held as a prisoner of war in England until 1919.   left - Ivor’s name appears on the Merchant Navy Memorial at Tower Hill in London.

ii) Arthur George Mules

Arthur was born in 1891 in 14 Maughan Terrace, Penarth to William Mules and his second wife, Elisabeth. He was therefore a ‘step-uncle to Ivor and a step-brother to my great grandfather.

In his 20’s, he worked as a coal tipper in Penarth dock, just like his father. In 1910, his step-sister, Amy Martin lost her husband. She was 36, and has 6 children at home. Young Arthur decided to support her, and in 1916, moved into her house at 5 John Street just around the corner.