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WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795? - 1873), musician Born (according to her gravestone) in 1795 at Aberpergwm in the Neath valley, Glamorganshire (see Williams family of Aberpergwm). She received a good education; she also inherited her father's love for what was best in the life of Wales. A good vocalist, with a fairly extensive acquaintance with music, she became an accomplished player on the guitar; she also was given lessons in harp-playing by
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795 - 1873), folklore collector and musician Maria Jane Williams was born at Aberpergwm in the Neath Valley, Glamorgan, on 4 October 1795, the fifth and youngest child of Rees Williams of Aberpergwm (1755-1812) and his wife Ann (née Jenkins, 1759-1834) of Ystradfellte. The Williams family of Aberpergwm claimed descent from Iestyn ab Gwrgant and the poet Dafydd Nicolas had a home with them in the second half of the eighteenth century. The
WILLIAMS, MARY (1883 - 1977), French scholar Mary Williams was born in Aberystwyth on 26 June 1887 and grew up in Tabernacle Chapel. She was the first child of John Williams (born 1827), a Welsh Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Jane Williams (born 1845). She had a younger sister, Jennie Williams (later Ruggles-Gates) (born 1884) and a brother, John Williams (born 1889), who died in childhood. Williams received her early education at
WILLIAMS, MATHEW (1732 - 1819), landsurveyor, author, and almanack-maker? is now in the Cardiff Public Library - is a reference under August 1790 to the death of ' Mathew Williams, author of a Welsh Almanack, this 14 years past, printed yearly in Carmarthen. He was from them parts by birth, by trade a weaver, by profession a dissenter, 55 years of age '; note, however, that our Mathew Williams describes himself as ' land surveyor ' in some of his works. It is possible
WILLIAMS, MATTHEW (bu farw 1801), actor
WILLIAMS, MEIRION (1901 - 1976), musician William Robert Williams was born on 19 July 1901 in Glanywern, Dyffryn Ardudwy. He began to use the name 'Meirion' when a student and adopted it officially during the Second World War. He was the son of Robert Parry Williams and Mary Elizabeth (née Roberts), the father a shopkeeper and sub-postmaster. His dark colouring was attributed by some to Italian ancestry on his mother's side. Meirion
WILLIAMS, MORGAN (c. 1750 - 1830), cleric Editor of two booklets entitled Collectanea; neu Gasgliadau o Flodeuog-Waith yr Awduron Brytanaidd (Carmarthen, 1820, 1823). He may be the ' Morgan Williams of Penderin ' who was ordained deacon 14 August 1774 and priest 6 August 1775, in which case he became curate of Aberedw, Radnorshire, in 1775, and curate of Vaynor and Taf-fechan, Brecknock, in 1788. It is as curate of Bayvil, Pembrokeshire
WILLIAMS, MORGAN (1808 - 1883), chartist the time of his death, 17 October 1883, at Merthyr, he had been registrar of marriages, etc., there for thirty years. An article by him on Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) appeared in Red Dragon, ii.
WILLIAMS, MORGAN, Dissenting layman - gweler WILLIAMS, ROGER
WILLIAMS, MORRIS (Nicander; 1809 - 1874), cleric and man of letters pulpit in Bangor cathedral. In 1840 he married Ann Jones of Denbigh; they had five daughters and three sons. One son, WILLIAM GLUNN WILLIAMS, became headmaster of Friars school, Bangor from 1879 to 1919; he died 23 February 1938, at the age of 87; in 1901 he published his father's work, Damhegion Esop ar Gân; and another, Richard, headmaster of Cowbridge grammar school. Whilst at Holywell, Nicander
WILLIAMS, MOSES (1685 - 1742), cleric and scholar Son of Samuel Williams of Llandyfrïog. Born 2 March 1685 at Glaslwyn, Cellan, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Carmarthen grammar school and University College, Oxford (B.A. 1708). He became M.A. (Cantab.) ten years later. He was one of Edward Lhuyd's assistants in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and was subsequently on the staff of the Bodleian Library. He was ordained deacon 2 March 1709 and
WILLIAMS, MOSES (bu farw 1819), General (but Trinitarian) Baptist minister, and blacksmith wing, and maintaining (as John Richard Jones of Ramoth did) that 'faith' was nothing more than simple belief. In 1797 he was ordained minister of Llandyfân, and in 1798 started another church in Pontbren-araeth in the parish of Llangadog. In the 1799 schism, he and his two churches broke away from the Particular Baptists, although they continued to be Trinitarians; Williams welcomed the advent of the

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