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JONES, WILLIAM (1770 - 1837), Calvinistic Methodist minister widow, of Mathafarn (the ancestral home of Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn) in Llanwrin, Montgomeryshire, and removed there, setting up as a cattle dealer. He began preaching in 1802. In 1805, he removed to the neighbouring farm of Dôl-y-fonddu, where he died 1 March 1837. There is a memoir (1840) by John Hughes of Pontrobert.
JONES, WILLIAM (1834 - 1895), Baptist minister , London, 1883; and once again at the end of 1884 to Hermon, Fishguard, where he remained until his death on 24 March 1895. He was buried in Hermon burial ground. His wife predeceased him by a year, and he left two sons. His denomination honoured him with the chair of the Welsh Baptist Union, 1894. He was a man of wide reading, and his preaching was remarkable for the philosophical nature of his sermons
JONES, WILLIAM ELLIS (Cawrdaf; 1795 - 1848), poet and man of letters parts of the world, written in a highly didactic vein, has often been described as the first Welsh novel, but has none of the attributes of a novel. He died 27 March 1848.
JONES, WILLIAM HENRY (1860 - 1932), journalist and local historian , constitute his most valuable contribution to local history. He was appointed, c. 1920, librarian and curator of the Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea; he was also regarded as the official archivist of the town of Swansea. He died 17 March 1932 at his home in Sketty Road, Swansea.
JONES, WILLIAM JENKYN (1852 - 1925) Brittany, Calvinistic Methodist missionary Born 29 March 1852 at New Quay, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Bangor Normal College and at University College, Aberystwyth, and became a schoolmaster at Ystradgynlais. Ordained (1882) for the Brittany mission-field, he worked for forty years from the Quimper centre, the capital of Finisterre and a Roman Catholic stronghold; facing insuperable odds he exerted great influence, distributing the
JONES-DAVIES, THOMAS ELLIS (1906 - 1960), doctor and international rugby player Born 4 March 1906, elder son of Henry and Winifred Anna Jones-Davies, Bremenda, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, St. George's School, Harpenden, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St. George's Hospital, London. He was awarded the degrees of M.A. and M.D. (Cantab.), and F.R.C.P. and D.P.H. (London). After serving for some time as an
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) grandfather (18 March 1577/1578) became the ward of the earl of Leicester, who, however, gave his consent to the completion of the marriage agreement. Maurice Wynn died in August 1580. There were two children of Katheryn's third marriage, (a) Edward and (b) Jane. (4) Sometime in 1583, to Edward Thelwall, son of Simon Thelwall of Plâs-y-ward, Denbighshire. At the same time a child marriage was arranged
KELSEY, ALFRED JOHN (1929 - 1992), association football player to play at the Halfway Park, Winch Wen, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of his first club; Kelsey died before the match took place, but Arsenal honoured their commitment and came to Swansea on 31 July 1993 to fulfil the fixture. Kelsey married Myrtle Elsie Hodgetts, (also known as Hudson) (1929-1987), at Swansea Registry Office on 22 March 1954. They met at a dance in Islington Town Hall in 1951
teulu KEMEYS Cefn Mabli, sheriff of Glamorgan for the period 18-24 March 1689. He was also governor of Cardiff castle in 1702. He died December 1702. His son, again named CHARLES KEMEYS, born 23 November 1688, became the 4th baronet on his father's death. He was sheriff of Glamorgan, 1712-13, M.P. for Monmouthshire, 1713-15, and M.P. for Glamorgan, 1716-34. He died 29 January 1735, without issue, and the baronetcy became
teulu KENRICK Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, co-defendant in the suit before the Great Sessions at Wrexham (18 March 1788), in which the 'New' Meeting maintained against the 'Old' its right to use the graveyard devised by Daniel Lloyd (died 1655) to Morgan Llwyd's congregation; another son, SAMUEL KENRICK, a Unitarian and an accomplished linguist who travelled widely (as a tutor) and met Rousseau and Voltaire in France, joined his brother
teulu KENYON Gredington, Peel Hall, Lloyd fought on the side of Parliament, and letters to and from him in 1644 have survived. Sometime, also, during the reign of Charles II, he was imprisoned with Philip Henry on account of his nonconformity. LLOYD KENYON (1696 - 1773) Eldest son of Thomas and Catherine Kenyon was born 17 March 1696 and educated at S. John's College Cambridge. He married, November 1730 Jane, daughter and coheiress of
KILVERT, ROBERT FRANCIS (1840 - 1879), cleric and diarist September 1879. Kilvert's fame rests upon the diary which he began in January 1870 and kept up till March 1879; parts of this (June 1876-December 1877) have been lost, but considerable selections of the remainder, edited by William Plomer, were published in 3 volumes in 1938-40. Kilvert's observations on nature and on social life in the Wye valley are of the highest interest and value.

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