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  • teulu WOOD, Welsh gipsies Pleser a Gofid ' Sal o'r Sowth ' claims that she is related to Abram Wood. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists. The principal source of the history of the tribe is the Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society (see under ' Wood ' in the 'Names' section of the indexes to the various volumes), and above all the articles contributed by John Sampson (1862
  • WOODING, DAVID LEWIS (1828 - 1891), genealogist, historian, bibliophile and shopkeeper leading authority on the authorship of Welsh hymns. His library was given into the care of John Ballinger, chief librarian of Cardiff Free Library (and later of the National Library of Wales, by councillor Ben Davies of Beulah. In addition, a proportion of his MSS, in particular his note-books, were handed over to the care of the library. His work is characterise by attention to detail and an endeavour
  • WOOLLER, WILFRED (1912 - 1997), cricketer and rugby player Wilfred Wooller was born at Wentworth, Church Road, Rhos-on-Sea, Denbighshire, on 20 November 1912, the son of Wilfred Wooller, builder and contractor, and his wife Ethel (née Johnson, died 1924). He was educated at John Bright Grammar School, Llandudno, Rydal School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He married 1) Gillian Windsor-Clive (1922-1961) of St. Fagans Castle in 1941, divorced in 1946
  • WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM THOMAS (4th EARL of DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT-EARL in the Irish peerage, 2nd Baron KENRY of the United Kingdom), (1841 - 1926), Glamorgan landowner and politician, sportsman and author cause of Dunraven's later years. He helped to secure the passage of the Irish Land Act in 1903 and the following year joined with other moderate Unionist landlords in the Irish Reform Association to suggest, unsuccessfully, a new scheme for Irish devolution. In December 1921 he seconded John Morley in replying to the King's Speech announcing the setting up of the Irish Free State. He did not, however
  • teulu WYNN Cesail Gyfarch, Penmorfa This family numbered some well-known men among its members and was connected by marriage with many other influential North Wales families. To it belonged MEREDYDD ab EVAN (died 1525), of Gwydir, descended from Owain Gwynedd; he married Margaret, daughter of Morris ap John ap Meredydd, of Clenennau, Penmorfa, and by her (she was his third wife), was the father of HUMPHREY WYNN of Cesail Gyfarch
  • teulu WYNN Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, , but probably there was no mansion house at Glyn at so early a period ' (Wynne, op. cit.). JOHN AP IEUAN, the heir of this marriage, and described as of Glyn, was living on 27 November 1545. His son, ROBERT WYN AP JOHN (died 1589), married (probably in 1544) Katherine, daughter of Ellis ap Maurice of Clenennau, Caernarfonshire, and was the father of MAURICE AP ROBERT WYNNE (died between 9 February
  • teulu WYNN Rûg, Boduan, Bodfean, are given in the usual books on the landed gentry, e.g. Burke, Nicholas, etc. For the pedigree see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 59, 171 (note), 173. JOHN WYNN, of Bodvel (which is near Boduan), who was high sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1551 and 1560, was standard-bearer for Edward VI in the fighting near Norwich against Ket and his co-rebels in 1549; he received Bardsey Island as a gift in honour of
  • teulu WYNN Maesyneuadd, Llandecwyn article on his father). Robert Wynn's heir, WILLIAM WYNN (died 4 April 1795), sheriff of Merioneth in 1758, assumed the name of NANNEY - his mother was Lowry Nanney, [daughter of John Nanney (III) of Maes-y-pandy ]; his heir (by Elizabeth, daughter of John Williams, Tŷ Fry, Pentraeth, Anglesey) was the Rev. JOHN NANNEY, who died 21 March 1838, leaving a son, JOHN NANNEY (died 1868), of Maesyneuadd and
  • teulu WYNN Gwydir, Gyfarch in 1468. His son, Maredudd, to avoid implication in the feuds of his kinsmen in Eifionydd, purchased the lease of Dolwyddelan castle about 1489; he later built Penamnen, and finally purchased Gwydir from Dafydd ap Hywel Coetmor about 1500. JOHN (WYN) AP MAREDUDD (died 9 July 1559) Son of Maredudd ap Ieuan, succeeded to his father's lands at Gwydir, Nantconwy, Dolwyddelan, and Llanfrothen
  • teulu WYNN Bodewryd, their eldest son, the parents went to live at Plas y Brain until the mother's death in 1542. David ap Rhys later married Anne, widow of William John ap Rhys of Llinon, and daughter of Piers Stanley of Ewloe. He repaired the house of Gwredog Esgob, and the family of the second marriage resided there. Pierce ap David or Pierce Lloyd, the first of the Lloyds of Gwredog, was the eldest child of this
  • teulu WYNN Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, castle, continued the line. Humphrey married Annes, daughter of Sir Richard Herbert, Montgomery, and was, by her, the father of JOHN WYNN AP HUMPHREY, who married Ann, daughter of Rhys Vaughan of Corsygedol, and was succeeded by his son, HUMPHREY WYNN (living in 1571). Humphrey Wynn, to whom Siôn Phylip addressed a cywydd asking him to give a harp to Siôn ap Richard, Pennal, married Jane (Hughes, of
  • teulu WYNN Berth-ddu, Bodysgallen, This family was a younger branch of the Wynn family of Gwydir, founded through the marriage of Griffith Wynn (son of John Wynn ap Meredydd, died 1559, and uncle of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir) with the heiress of Robert Salusbury of Berth-ddu. OWEN GWYNN (GWYNNE, GWYN or WYN) (died 1633), Master of S. John's, Cambridge Education, was the third son of this Griffith Wynn. Nominated in 1584 to one of