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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, HUGH (1790 - 1853), veterinary surgeon and musician Born in 1790, son of Evan and Gwen Evans, Pencraig Fawr, Betws Gwerfyl Goch, Meironnydd. He was a good musician and a skilled player on the 'cello; he also was the precentor at Betws Gwerfyl Goch church. In 1837 was formed ' Cymdeithas Gantorawl Cerrig-y-drudion ' under the auspices of which Evans published Holwyddoreg ar Egwyddorion Peroriaeth, in two-shilling parts, for use at the quarterly
EVANS, JOHN (1779 - 1847), cleric, afterwards Calvinistic Methodist minister Born October 1779 at Cwm-gwen, Llanfihangel Iorath parish, Carmarthenshire, son of John and Rachel Evans. He was brought up as an Independent but, after hearing David Jones (1736 - 1810) of Llan-gan preach at Gwaun Ifor, he joined the Methodists there, and later at New Inn. He was educated by some of the local clerics and afterwards opened his own school at Llanpumpsaint where, in 1796, he began
EVANS, JOHN (1796 - 1861), schoolmaster was also skilled in astronomy and in the construction of sundials and mechanical instruments. He married, in S. Michael's Church, Aberystwyth, Gwen Mason (1796 - 1834), of the parish of Llanbadarn-fawr, on 14 May 1821. In 1858 the townsmen of Aberystwyth presented him with a testimonial for maintaining a clock for the use of the town. Evans was an elder in Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist church
EVANS, THOMAS JOHN (1894 - 1965), local government officer and an administrator within the Baptist denomination 1958 in order to facilitate the integration of the treasury functions within the County Council. He was married at Tabernacl, Carmarthen on 23 November 1923 to Margaret Gwendoline Hodges (27 June 1894 - 22 March 1951), a childhood acquaintance in the church, who bore him one daughter. The small volume, Gwen - A tribute of love and remembrance (1951), that he published privately, was his personal
EVANS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1805), early Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born at Ystrad, Llangwm, Denbighshire, but the family moved to Fedw Arian, Bala. He was baptised 31 November 1734. He was a freeholder and afterwards bought the farm of Maesgwyn in Llanfihangel-glyn-myfyr, Denbighshire, letting this out in 1781, and afterwards raising mortgages upon it - the last occasion being in 1797, when he mortgaged it to his son Morris for £500. His wife Gwen died in 1772
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies was born on 25 January 1891 in north London, the eldest of three children of David Ffrangcon-Davies, son of a foundry supervisor at Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, and his wife, Annie 'Nan' Raynor, the daughter of a Manchester doctor with a holiday cottage in Conwy. Gwen had a sister Marjorie (1893-1964), later a singer, and a brother Geoffrey (1895-1915) who was killed in a
GRIFFITH, EDMUND (1570 - 1637), bishop Born in 1570, the fourth son of Griffith ap John Griffith of Cefn Amwlch, Llŷn. Educated at Brasenose, Oxford (B.A. 1589; M.A. 1592; B.D. 1599), he became rector of Llandwrog 1596-1637, canon of Bangor 1600, sinecure rector of Llanfor, Meironnydd 1601, rector of Llanbedrog 1604, archdeacon of Bangor 1606, dean of Bangor 1613-33, and bishop of Bangor 1633-7. By his wife Gwen, daughter of Morris ap
GWEN ferch ELLIS (c. 1552 - 1594), first victim of execution for witchcraft in Wales Gwen ferch Ellis was born about 1552 in Llandyrnog parish, Denbighshire. Her parents' identities are not recorded - only her father's forename, Ellis, is indicated by the Welsh surname prefix 'ferch', meaning 'daughter of". The historic record shows that she had a sister, Elizabeth ferch Ellis (d. c.1579), and an uncle, Harry ap Roger, with whom she was sent to live in Yale at the age of five or
HAVARD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1889 - 1956), bishop Born 23 October 1889 at Neuadd Defynnog, Brecknockshire, 3rd son of William Havard, a deacon of Tabernacl (Congl.) chapel, Defynnog, and Gwen his wife. He was educated at Brecon county school; University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (graduated B.A. 3rd-class honours in history, 1912); St. Michael's College, Llandaff; Jesus College, Oxford (M.A., 1921). He was ordained deacon by John Owen, Bishop
HOOSON, JOHN (1883 - 1969), teacher, scholar papers in Wales. He was prominent in London-Welsh religious life and he was an elder at Clapham Junction Welsh Presbyterian Church for many years. He married Gwen Storey of Wynnstay, Denbigh and they had one daughter. He died 19 July 1969 in London.
HOWELL, JENKIN (1836 - 1902), printer, writer, musician son of John Howell (died 1841) and his wife Gwen, of Tor-foel, Penderyn, Brecknock. He had little schooling, being apprenticed at eight years old to a shoe-maker; five years afterwards he went to work at Pont-Neath-Vaughan. When fourteen, he was at Merthyr Tydfil, a town of poets and musicians and of eisteddfodau; thence he moved to Aberdare, where he attended night-schools kept by John Anthony

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