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  • teulu DAVIES-COOKE Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, Griffith ap Howel, fifth in descent from Elstan Glodrydd. The patronymic Davies was first assumed by JOHN AP DAVID, who married Jane, widow of Richard Mostyn and daughter of Thomas Salisbury, of Leadbroke, Flintshire. They had three children - two sons, Robert and John, and a daughter, Catherine, who married Edward Morgan of Golden Grove, Flintshire. ROBERT DAVIES (?- 1600), who succeeded to the family
  • teulu DAVIS, coalowners DAVIS, DAVID, sen. (1797 - 1866), son of William David Jeffrey and Margaret (Lewis), was born in 1797 at Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire. After serving as apprentice to his maternal uncle, Lewis Lewis, a grocer and draper at Merthyr Tydfil, he opened a shop of his own at Hirwaun, and soon afterwards married Mary Lewis, who seems to have been a daughter of Thomas Lewis, another uncle of his. They
  • DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster (Iolo Morganwg), Thomas Roberts, of Llwyn'rhudol, John Jones of Glan-y-gors, and Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi); and through his influence many in his neighbourhood became supporters of the French Revolution. In 1801-2 there was dissension in his churches, and the more advanced elements built the Unitarian chapels at Pant-y-defaid and Capel-y-groes. He retired 16 January 1820 after having been a
  • DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller English people unable to pronounce 'Cadwaladr'. She adopted 'Davis', as had her older siblings in a similar situation, because it derived from her father's first name and thus used the traditional Welsh patronymic system. A well-known preacher with the Calvinistic Methodists, Dafydd Cadwaladr was a member of Selina Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion and a close friend of the Rev. Thomas Charles of Bala
  • DAVIS, THOMAS - gweler DAVIES, THOMAS
  • DAVYES, THOMAS - gweler DAVIES, THOMAS
  • DAWKINS, MORGAN GAMAGE (1864 - 1939), Congregational minister, poet, and hymnist Born 16 December 1864 at Bryncethin, near Bridgend, his father, Thomas, being farmer of the smallholding of Cae-helyg Bach, a collier at Park Slip, and a lay preacher, and his mother, Mary, a member of the David family of Pencoed. On his father's side, he was descended from the illustrious families of Gamage and Dawkins. His mother died in 1877, his father was killed in the colliery, 14 August
  • DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician
  • DEE, JOHN (1527 - 1608), mathematician and astronomer of his extant which definitely connects his family with Radnorshire; this is in Peniarth MS 252, and it is in Dee's autograph, addressed to his 'Cosen Nicholas ap Meredith at Prestene,' and containing allusions to 'cosens' William, Thomas, and John Lewis - the last-named being the John Lewis of Llynwene, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, Radnorshire, whose collection of papers forms the manuscript in
  • DENNIS, HENRY (1825 - 1906), mining engineer, colliery owner, etc. with John Taylor and Son, mining engineers, who entrusted him with the work of constructing a tramway from the Llangollen slate quarries to the Shropshire Union Canal at Llangollen. After spending a short time in Spain, where he was engaged in lead mining, he returned to Denbighshire and became manager of Bryn-yr-owen colliery, near Rhosllannerchrugog, then owned by John Taylor and Son. He
  • DERFEL, ROBERT JONES (1824 - 1905), poet and socialist traveller, his territory covering Staffordshire, part of the Midlands, and North Wales as far south as Aberystwyth. He was a lay preacher among the Baptists and was a contributor to their periodicals, Y Tyst Apostolaidd and Y Greal. In Manchester a literary society consisting of four persons - Creuddynfab (William Williams, 1814 - 1869, Ceiriog, Idris Fychan (John Jones, 1825 - 1887), and Robert Jones
  • teulu DEVEREUX Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, A Norman family, one branch of which settled in Herefordshire soon after the Conquest, and eventually acquired important interests in south and central Wales. WALTER DEVEREUX, 1st viscount Hereford (c. 1491 - 1559) The eldest son of John, lord Ferrers, to whose title he succeeded in 1501, adding to it in 1550 that of viscount Hereford. He became a member of the Council of Wales in 1513; in 1525