Evelyn Jenkins

Grew up in Newport. Attended  St Julians High School for Girls in Heather Road.Then attended University of Wales,Aberystwyth where she gained ber BA and a later MA at University College London. Career has been in Music working as a principal singer in national and international opera companies, She also leaches and lectures in Music and Singing, but is now undertaking research studies in local history. She has a Certificate in Catholic theology and her lastest studies have been in researching SS Julius, Aaron and Alban, The Austin Friars of Newport, Marriage in the Sixth Century Church, The Cambrai Homily and the lives of three Gwentian saints, Material heritage of the Penal Times, Perjury and Plot. Politics and Religion and St David Lewis in Seventeenth Century Wales.