Daniel Betty - Butchers - Goodwick
Daniel Betty had his butchers’ shop on Quay Road for many years before his son Norman took over the running of the business.
Daniel had been born in Bristol in 1885 – his father Charles worked as an engine fitter, presumably for the GWR as the family moved up and down the line between London, Swindon and Bristol before settling in Neyland.
Daniel’s grandfather, also called Daniel had been a railway man and had moved to Neyland around 1871 – in the years that followed he changed trades and instead became a Master Butcher and it was under the tuteledge of his grandfather, that young Daniel learnt his butchery skills.
Shortly after his marriage to Henrietta Hughes in Neyland in 1909, Daniel and his young wife moved to Goodwick where initially they lived at the Old Post Office with Daniel working as a butcher’s assistant. Very shortly after arriving in Goodwick, Daniel and Henrietta had moved to the Cunard Refreshment Rooms and this is where their first son was born.
As a result of an application for military exemption in 1916 – it is known that Daniel was working as a slaughterman for Daniel Davies Bevan, a butcher of The Myrtle, Goodwick.
When exactly he opened his shop in Quay Road is not known but he ran his butchers’ business up until his death in 1970 – his son Norman worked alongside and latterly took over the business.
Norman was not the only one to follow his father into the butchery business – sister Nancy, who married Marley Davies, also ran a butcher’s shop in West Street, Fishguard in what is now the Post Office.
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