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teulu MATHIAS Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey (June 1644 - see Laws, Little England, 327), and died in 1681 (W. Wales Hist. Records, loc. cit.). His son LEWIS MATHIAS (died in 1733 - ibid.), was opposed to the Revolution of 1688, and at the end of June 1693 was involved, at Narberth, in a brawl against the new regime; in the same year, he was accused of 'drinking, at his own house at Llwyngwaren, and also at Slebech and at Narberth,' and shouting
MATTHEWS, ABRAHAM (1832 - 1899), minister (Congl.) and one of the pioneers of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia Born at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, November 1832, son of John Matthews, weaver, and Ann Jones, but brought up by Edward and Ann Lewis, farmers living nearby who moved to Blaencwmlline, in the parish of Cemaes. At 12 years of age he was apprenticed to a factory in Cwmlline for three years, becoming a craftsman working around Montgomeryshire and south Merionethshire. When 22 years old he decided
MATTHEWS, JOHN (1773 - 1848), surveyor and public man Lewis Edwards and Henry Richard.
teulu MAURICE Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa married (1) John Jones, Wern, Penmorfa - see Wynn family of Peniarth; and (2) Ellis Anwyl, Parkie, Caernarfonshire Sir William Maurice was succeeded at Clenennau by his grand-daughter, ELLIN MAURICE (1578 - 1626), heiress of Clenennau, Porkington, and Llanddyn, daughter of William Wynn Maurice (who had died in 1568, i.e., before his father, Sir William Maurice), and Mary, daughter of John Lewis, Chwaen
MAURICE, MATHIAS (1684 - 1738), Independent minister and writer pamphlet, Byr a chywir Hanes Eglwys Rhydyceished yn eu Nheulltuad o Henllan, trwy y Blynyddoedd 1707, 1708, 1709, which he printed in 1727 as an appendix to his book Y Wir Eglwys (it was reprinted by D. M. Lewis in the 1925 number of Y Cofiadur, 41-9); Jeremy Owen's pamphlet, Golwg ar y Beiau, etc., 1732, was a reply to it. He published a number of English books, including Monuments of Mercy (1729), A
MAURICE, WILLIAM (bu farw 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts The son of Lewis Maurice, who descended from the Moeliwrch family in Llansilin, by Jane, daughter of John Holand, vicar of Guilsfield (1586-1639), he spent his life at Cefn-y-braich or Ty Newydd in Cynllaith, Llansilin. It is said that he erected a building of three stories, locally known as ' the Study,' to house his library.He had sufficient means to collect books and manuscripts, to employ
MENDS, CHRISTOPHER (1724? - 1799), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1942, 33-41, there is a most interesting parody of ' Young Mends the Clothier's sermon - obviously this was one of the two brothers. The parody is from NLW MS 67A, in the writing of Lewis Morris of Anglesey; it does not follow that it is his own composition, but he probably heard of ' Young Mends ' when he was surveying the Pembrokeshire harbours. What grains of wheat
MEREDITH, LEWIS (Lewys Glyn Dyfi; 1826 - 1891), preacher and writer
MERRETT, Sir HERBERT HENRY (1886 - 1959), industrialist Born 18 December 1886 in the parish of Canton, Cardiff, son of Lewis and Elizabeth Merrett. He married, 1911, Marion Linda Higgins and they had two daughters and one son. He was educated at Cardiff; was Justice of the Peace for the county of Glamorgan and was High Sheriff of Glamorgan 1934-35. He was acknowledged a leading Welsh coal exporter of international repute whose career began in the
MEYLER, JAMES (1761 - 1825), minister (Congl.) Born in 1761 at Penysgwarn, Llanwnda, Pembrokeshire. He was well educated in his youth, and served as a solicitor's secretary for a while. He became a member of Rhos-y-caerau church, where he began to preach. He went to Wrexham academy under Jenkin Lewis, and after completing his course he received a call from his mother-church of Rhos-y-caerau and was ordained there on 20 October 1795. He took a
teulu MEYRICK Bodorgan, noting here that it was he who engaged Lewis Morris to measure the Bodorgan estate. Owen Meyrick was succeeded by his son, OWEN MEYRICK II (1705 - 1770), who married a wealthy heiress, the daughter of John Putland of London; and by his grand-son, OWEN PUTLAND MEYRICK (1752 - 1825), who was equally fortunate in his marriage - to Clara, daughter and heiress of Richard Garth of Morden, Surrey. The estate
teulu MEYRICK Hascard, Fleet, Bush, Wigmore, swordsmen who had served with him abroad, and his own connections in Radnorshire (where he had married c. 1584, the daughter of Ieuan Lewis of Gladestry, widow of John Gwynn of Llanelwedd, who brought him both estates), and in Carmarthenshire (where his daughter Margaret was the wife of Sir John Vaughan of Golden Grove, later 1st earl of Carbery, as well as his brother Francis (below)). He was responsible

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