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GODWIN, JUDITH (bu farw 1746), one of Howel Harris's correspondents Her maiden name was Weaver, and it is often (but incorrectly) said that she was the daughter of John Weaver (died 1712), Puritan minister at New Radnor and afterwards at Hereford; it is however very probable that she belonged to the same family and was born in Radnorshire. She married (1) Samuel Jones (1680? - 1719), of Tewkesbury, and (2) in 1721, Edward Godwin (1680? - 1764), a prominent
GOLDSWAIN, BRYNLEY VERNON (1922 - 1983), rugby league player Bryn Goldswain was born on 3 August 1922 in Merthyr Tudful, the son of Reginald Stephen Goldswain, a miner and then a policeman who died as a young man, and his wife Catherine (née Jones, 1897-1981). The family moved to Aber-craf in the Swansea Valley when Bryn was four years old. He was educated locally and at Ystalyfera Grammar School. He played rugby union for Aber-craf, before going to work
GORE, HUGH (1613 - 1691), bishop, founder of Swansea grammar school believed to have been the living of Nicholaston and the rectory of Oxwich, both in Gower, which he owed to the patronage of the Mansel family; but he would appear to have left Oxwich in 1638 (T. Richards, Religious Developments in Wales, 1654-1662, p. 495). Ejected under the Propagation Act of 1650 for 'delinquency and refusing the engagement', he kept a school at Swansea for some years subsequently
GOULD, ARTHUR JOSEPH (1864 - 1919), Rugby footballer Born at Newport, Monmouthshire, 10 October 1864. One of a family of athletes and footballers, he was in first class football from 1882 till 1898, playing his first game for Newport, as a fullback, at the age of sixteen. He played in the Newport XV for three seasons as a full-back, and it was in that position he got his first ' cap ' for Wales. But it was as a centre three-quarter that he became
GOWER, Sir ERASMUS (1742 - 1814), admiral , Portsmouth, 21 June 1814, 'in his seventy-second year.' Erasmus Gower was the son of Abel Gower; his mother was a daughter of Erasmus Lewes, who was vicar of Lampeter - a Lewes of Gernos, Llangunllo, Cardiganshire (Meyrick, Cardiganshire, 2nd ed., 202, 221). The Gowers, a Worcestershire family, had come into Glandovan (c. 1700) by intermarriage with the Stedmans, who in their turn had acquired it by
GRAY, THOMAS (1847 - 1924), mining engineer and local historian Born 22 September 1847, at Usworth, co. Durham, son of William and Jane Gray. In 1848 the family came to Tai-bach, Margam, Glamorganshire, where he lived the remainder of his life. After serving as an assistant to his father, who was mineral agent to Messrs. Vivian and Sons, he became a consulting engineer to the same industrialists, an inspector of mines, and the inventor of the 'Gray' safety
GREEN, BEATRICE (1894 - 1927), political activist a large family without a waged income coming in. She was asked to speak at rallies in London and to participate in a Miners' Federation of Great Britain delegation to the Soviet Union. The nineteen strong delegation, which included six women representing miners' wives in different coalfields, was designed to cement the bond between British miners and Soviet workers following the donations sent by
teulu GRENFELL, Swansea industrialists They originated from St. Just in Cornwall. They were related, through intermarriage with the St. Leger family, to Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge and Richard de Granville, the founder of Neath Abbey. Sir Richard, a direct descendant of Richard de Granville (Visitations of the County of Cornwall, ed. J.L. Vivian), married Mary, daughter of Sir John St. Leger. PASCOE GRENFELL (1761 - 1838
GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician magistrate who died in about 1970. Both husband and wife were active members of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The family lived at 'Ardwyn', Camglas Road, Sketty in Swansea. D. R. Grenfell died on 21 November 1968 aged 87 years, and was buried at Brynteg Cemetery, Gorseinon. His papers are in the custody of the South Wales Coalfield Archive at the Swansea University library.
GRESHAM, COLIN ALASTAIR (1913 - 1989), archaeologist, historian and author & Craven, a firm established by his grandfather, James Gresham, at Ordsall Lane, Salford, near Manchester, in 1880. (He hailed from Newark-on-Trent, Notts., although there is a record that the family originated from the village of Gresham, near Holt, in north-east Norfolk, as far back as the end of the Middle Ages.) James Gresham was an able engineer and an exceptionally inventive person as his
teulu GRIFFITH Cefn Amwlch, Penllech, Llŷn This family claimed descent from Rhys ap Tewdwr Mawr, prince of Deheubarth, through Trahaearn Goch, lord of Cymydmaen. Associations with Penllech can be traced back to the early years of the 14th century, but the first of the family to be definitely described as of Cefn Amwlch is one Dafydd Fychan who was alive in 1481. Suspected of recusancy during the years 1577-1581, and strongly antagonistic
teulu GRIFFITH Garn, Plasnewydd, Particulars of many of the members of this family are given in The Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd … as registered in the College of Arms from the beginning of the XIth century. Edited … by T. A. Glenn (London, privately printed, 1934), a work based on family and other documents. The descent is traced from Eadwine of Atiscross, the Edwin of Tegeingl of genealogists. At least two members

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