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JONES, WILLIAM GARMON (1884 - 1937), professor of history and librarian of Liverpool University Miscellany); ' Bosworth Field, an episode of Welsh history ' (Trans. Liverpool Welsh National Society), 1912; York and Lancaster (Bell's 'Source Books of English History'); ' Welsh Nationalism and Henry Tudor ' (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1917-18). In 1923 he married Eluned, only daughter of (Sir) John Edward Lloyd of Bangor. He died 28 May 1937 and was buried in the family
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) Hamburg, where Clough died in 1570. She and Clough had two daughters, (a) Anne (born 1568), who married Roger Salusbury, and (b) Mary (born 1569), who married William Wynn of Melai. Clough provided handsomely for his widow and daughters and for his two stepsons. Katheryn returned to Berain and engaged William Cynwal of Penmachno, the bard and genealogist, to compile a record of her family - see his own
KELSALL, JOHN (fl. 1683-1743), Quaker diarist Born in London in 1683. He came to Wales in 1702, and kept school (he was a man of good education) at Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, while also acting as clerk in the iron-works belonging to the Lloyd family of Dolobran. He was in the Lloyds ' service till c. 1743, being dispatched here and there in their industrial interests; e.g. he supervised their furnaces near Dolgelley in 1714-20 and again at
KELSEY, ALFRED JOHN (1929 - 1992), association football player Born at 382 Jersey Road, Winch Wen, Llansamlet, Swansea, on 19 November 1929, the second of three children born to Alfred Kelsey (1897-1980) and Sarah Ann Kelsey née Howe (1902-2000). His father was a Londoner, born within the sound of the Bow bells, who came to Wales with his family in 1911 where he was subsequently employed as a smelter furnace man in one of the many works that peppered the
teulu KEMEYS Cefn Mabli, The Cefn Mabli branch of the Kemeys family is said to be descended from one Stephen de Kemeys, who held land in what is now Monmouthshire c. 1234. The first connection with Cefn Mabli came when DAVID KEMEYS, son of Ievan Kemeys of Began, married Cecil, daughter of Llewelyn ab Evan ap Llewelyn ap Cynfig of Cefn Mabli c. 1450. They were succeeded by their son LEWIS. The next heirs were JOHN KEMEYS
teulu KENRICK Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, , remained in the 'Old Meeting' and became a trustee of its endowments in 1747; but of John's six sons, JOHN KENRICK II (heir to Wynn Hall, died 1803) and WILLIAM (a brazier in Wrexham died 1793) were both trustees of the 'New Meeting' (1783), and the former (who married into the old Montgomeryshire. Dissenting family of Quarrell of Llanfyllin of the 'Old Chapel' at Llanuwchllyn also, while William was a
KENTIGERN (518? - 603), saint, the founder of Glasgow He appears in the Welsh genealogies as Cyndeyrn, son of Owain ab Urien and grandson of Urien (of) Rheged; Owain is an important figure in the romances included in the ' Red Book of Hergest,' and he and his father, Urien, figure in the early Welsh poems which recount the struggles of the North British princes against Hussa the son of Ida - see the articles Llywarch Hen and Taliesin. The family
teulu KENYON Gredington, Peel Hall, The settlement in Wales of the family of Kenyon dates from the marriage, c. 1694, of THOMAS KENYON (1668 - 1731), fourth son of ROGER KENYON of Peel, Lancashire, with Catherine (born 1660), daughter and heiress of Luke Lloyd (died 1695), of Bryn, in the parish of Hanmer, Flintshire, whose family had been long settled in the hundred of Maelor Saesneg, and claimed descent from Rhodri Mawr. Luke
KILMISTER, IAN FRASER (1945 - 2015), musician Ian Fraser Kilmister was born on 24 December 1945 in Stoke-on-Trent, the son of Sidney Davy Albert Kilmister and his wife Jessie Milda, 'June' (née Simpson). His father, a former RAF chaplain, deserted the family when Ian was just three months old and he was raised by his mother and grandmother in a small Staffordshire town. When he was ten years old his mother married George Willis and the
KNIGHT, HENRY HEY (1795 - 1857), cleric and antiquary the second marriage. The family of Knight of Tythegston, originally of Bristol, had by marriage in 1708 succeeded the Lougher family as owners of a cluster of manors around Newton Nottage in Glamorgan : Sker, Tythegston, Nottage, etc. The vicar of Tewkesbury predeceased his brother, the reigning head of the house, but his eldest son (1789? - 1854), also a ROBERT and also a clergyman (rector of
KOTSCHNIG, ELINED PRYS (1895 - 1983), psychoanalyst and pacifist Elined Prys was born on 16 February 1895 in Trefeca, Talgarth, Breconshire, the eldest of the two daughters of Owen Prys, the Principal of the Calvinist Methodist College, and his wife Elizabeth (née Parry). The family moved to a new home in Lluest, North Road, Aberystwyth, when the college was relocated in 1906, and Elined went on to study at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. In
KROCH, HEINZ JUSTUS (1920 - 2011), engineer and businessman in 1951 to a small family company, AB Metal Products, employing no more than 100 people, which had been persuaded to move to Abercynon in the Cynon Valley as government sought to find new light manufacturing operations to absorb miners losing their jobs as the south Wales coalfield contracted. Kroch became a director of the company in 1959, rising to managing director in 1964 and chairman in 1978

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