Levi Gibbon was a Welsh balladeer. Born in Llanboidy

Llanboidy

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, Carmarthenshire

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 in approximately 1807, he was a well known fiddler and writer and performer of ballads, in South

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, mid and West Wales

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He was married to Anne and they had 5 children - John, Benjamin, Esther, Mary and Anne.

Levi died on 1 August 1870 and is buried at Cwmfelin Mynach

Cwmfelin Mynach

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 in the Ramoth Baptist graveyard. On the death certificate

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 the cause of death is given as "Consumption

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Levi is one of the foci of a PhD that was submitted to University of Wales Lampeter

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 in the 1990s. It can be viewed at the Library and also requested for Inter-Library Loan. The details are: Parry-Jones, Lilian: Astudiaeth o Faledi Levi Gibbon, Thomas Harris a Stephen Jones, yn ogystal â Rhai Baledi Eraill o’r Un Cylch, Traethawd PhD Prifysgol Cymru

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(Llanbedr Pont Steffan), 1992.

See also Parry-Jones, Lilian: ‘Baledi Levi Gibbon, Thomas Harris, Stephen Jones, ac Eraill’, Llên Cymru, 19 (1996), tt.85-129.