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teulu ELLIS Bron y Foel, Ystumllyn, Ynyscynhaearn succeeded by ELLIS AP CADWALADR, of Ystumllyn (died 1597). By his wife, Elin, daughter of Owen Wynn and Elin (Salesbury), Cae'r Melwr, near Llanrwst, Ellis ap Cadwaladr was the father of OWEN ELLIS I (died 1622 - see the elegy composed by Gruffydd Phylip), through whom the line was continued, and, among other children, Griffith Ellis. GRIFFITH ELLIS (died 1667), whose wife was Margaret (died 1667
teulu EVANS Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog Thomas ap Dafydd ab Ifan ab Einion ab Osbwrn. The wife of his son, EVAN AP ROBERT, was Gwen, daughter of Humphrey ap Maredudd ab Evan ap Robert, Cesail-gyfarch, Caernarfonshire, and it was their son, ROBERT AB EVAN, who first stabilized the surname and became known as ROBERT EVANS. Robert Evans married Elizabeth, daughter of John Wynn ap Cadwaladr, Rhiwlas, Meironnydd, their heir being EVAN EVANS
EVANS, CADWALADR (1664 - 1745), Pennsylvanian Welsh Quaker Born at Fron-goch in the parish of Llanfor, Meironnydd. He joined the Society of Friends, emigrated to Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, in 1698, and was accepted into the ministry of the Friends. He died in 1745, aged 81. Cadwaladr Evans was great-great-grandfather of Abraham Lincoln.
GRIFFITH, SIDNEY (bu farw 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris Daughter of Cadwaladr Wynne of Voelas, Ysbyty Ifan (see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 326; her christian name came from her grandmother Sidney Thelwall of Plas-y-ward, Ruthin); married William Griffith of Cefn Amwlch, c. 1741 (her son was born in 1742). Her husband was a boor and a drunkard, and her life with him was unhappy. In 1746, a sermon by Peter Williams (1723 - 1796) brought her into
GRIFFITH, RICHARD (Carneddog; 1861 - 1947), poet, writer, and journalist inexhaustible store of local lore, collected books and manuscripts (see NLW MS 7234-7253 and NLW MS 8404B), and was always ready to give information to inquirers and to his numerous correspondents - he was, in short, an excellent example of the knowledgeable and cultured country-man writer. He married 11 January 1889 Catherine, daughter of Cadwaladr Owen, Nantmor and they had 2 sons. He died 23 May 1947 at
GRUFFUDD ap CYNAN (c. 1055 - 1137), king of Gwynedd himself lord of Gwynedd uwch Conwy, and for the rest of his life he was left undisturbed to consolidate his kingdom. It is true that Henry I led a formidable army into Gwynedd in 1114, but Gruffudd lost no land, and after this he himself did not fight a single battle. The authority of Gwynedd was however greatly extended by his sons, Owain and Cadwaladr, and before Gruffudd's death Ceredigion
teulu HARLEY (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore connections with Wales. THOMAS HARLEY (1548? - 1631) was a member of the Council of the Marches, made a vain attempt to get the stewardship of Maelienydd, but in 1601 bought Wigmore, where his son, Sir ROBERT HARLEY (1579 - 1656) was born. This Robert (Member of Parliament for Radnor borough, 1604-11) was at Oriel College, Oxford, where his tutor was Cadwaladr Owen (1562 - 1617) of Maentwrog, Meironnydd
HYWEL ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (bu farw 1170), soldier and poet The natural son of Owain Gwynedd by Pyfog, an Irishwoman. Hywel played a leading part in the occupation of Ceredigion by the house of Gwynedd. His father assigned southern Ceredigion to him in 1139. There was continual strife between him and his uncle Cadwaladr who held northern Ceredigion and Meirionydd. In 1143 Hywel drove his uncle out of Ceredigion. In 1144 there was a reconciliation and
HYWEL ap RHODRI MOLWYNOG (bu farw 825), king of Gwynedd A great-grandson of Cadwaladr (died 664), and the last king in Anglesey of the line of Cunedda. The blood of Cunedda was transmitted, on Hywel's death, to a new royal house through his niece, Ethyllt (grandmother of Rhodri the Great), daughter of his brother, Cynan (died 816), with whom he had for long contested Anglesey.
IEUAN ap HYWEL SWRDWAL (fl. 1430-1480), poet ladi our leding tw haf.' Elegies to him were written by Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys, Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Gruffydd ap Dafydd Fychan. There is a tradition that he, like his father, wrote a history of Wales from the time of Cadwaladr to that of Henry VI, but the work is not extant.
JAMES, IVOR (1840? - 1909), first registrar of the University of Wales Enoch R. G. Salisbury collection of books relating to Wales and the Border counties for the college at Cardiff. With W. Cadwaladr Davies he was joint secretary of the University of Wales Charter Committee, and he became the first registrar, in March 1895, of the new university, holding the fort until he retired in 1906. Throughout the years Ivor James had shown that he had the instincts of the
JENKINS, ROBERT THOMAS (1881 - 1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography Born 31 August 1881 in Liverpool, son of Robert Jenkins and Margaret (née Thomas). The family moved to Bangor when his father was appointed clerk to William Cadwaladr Davies, registrar of the new college, but after the early death of his parents (his mother in 1887 and his father in 1888) he was raised by his mother's family at Bala; he always acknowledged a deep debt to his grandmother, Margaret

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