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Walter Vaughan and Katherine verch Griffith ap Rhys of Newton

 




Husband Walter Vaughan



 
         Born:  - Carmarthenshire, Wales
   Christened: 
         Died: 1598 - Carmarthenshire, Wales
       Buried: 



 
       Father: John Vaughan (Abt 1525-1574)
       Mother: Catrin Morgan \Verch Harry Ap Trahairn (Abt 1525-After 1552)



 
     Marriage: 

 
 Other Spouse: Lettice Perrot(      -      ) 1



Wife Katherine verch Griffith ap Rhys of Newton



 
         Born:  - Trenewydd, Carmarthenshire
   Christened: 
         Died: Abt 1640 - Carmel, Carmarthenshire, Wales
       Buried: 



 
       Father: Griffith Ap Rhys (1529-1592)
       Mother: Eleanor Jones (1528-      )





Children


1 M John Vaughan 1st Earl of Carbery 2



 
         Born: Abt 1572 - Carmarthenshire, Wales
   Christened: 
         Died: 6 May 1634 - Carmarthenshire, Wales
       Buried:  - LLandello Fawr, Carmarthenshire, Wales
 
       Spouse: Margred Kyffin (      -      ) 2
 
       Spouse: Jane Palmer (      -      ) 3
 
       Spouse: Margaret Meyrick (      -      )



2 M Sir William Vaughan



 
         Born: 1577 - Carmarthenshire, Wales
   Christened: 
         Died: Aug 1641 - Carmarthenshire, Wales
       Buried:  - St. Cyndeyrn Church, Llangendeirne, Carmarthenshire, Wales
 
       Spouse: Elizabeth verch David ap Robert (      -1608)
 
       Spouse: Ann Christmas (Abt 1592-1672) 1
         Marr: Abt 1610 - Colchester, Essex, England




General Notes: Husband - Walter Vaughan


He was a member of parliament for Carmarthenshire in 1576 and 1593. His biography is as follows:

Family and Education
1st s. of John Vaughan II of Carmarthen and bro. of Henry. educ. ?G. Inn 1561. m. (1) Mary, da. of Griffith Rice of Newton, Llandefaison, 10s. inc. Sir John 3da.; (2) Lettice, illegit. da. of Sir John Perrot, wid. of Rowland Laugharne of St. Brides, Pemb., 2da. suc. fa. 1574.2

Offices Held
Bailiff, Carmarthen 1572-3, mayor 1574, 1580, 1597; receiver, Kidwelly 1574; j.p. Carm. from c.1575, q. by 1579, Pemb. from c.1591; sheriff, Carm. 1584-5, Pemb. 1593-4; commr. Exchequer, Carm. 1581; ragler, Carm. by 1589.3

Biography
Within three years of his succession to his father's estates Vaughan began to accumulate lands in the neighbourhood of Carmarthen and Llanstephan. In 1581. he leased the manor of Llandeilo from the bishop of St. David's, and ten years later the addition to his holdings of a grist mill on the Llwchwr, near Llanelly, gave him a more southerly foothold. Here he worked 'for the space of halfa year ... one vein of coal'. In 1593 he acquired from Lord Audley a life interest in the manors of Hirfryn, Perfedd and Llandovery.4

Both Vaughan's offices and his lands brought their tale of litigation. In 1589 he charged before the court of Exchequer 26 tenants of four of the manors of Cantref Mawr (north of the Towy) with defrauding the Crown, and himself as ragler, by withholding customary dues. Two years later he defended before the same court his mill rights on the Llwchwr from tenants who were declining suit of mill. In 1591 he was accused of forging a bond, and the president of the council in the marches of Wales was directed by the Privy Council to look into the matter. In the last year of his life he was arraigned before both Exchequer and Star Chamber on charges of misusing his influence as magistrate to suborn, in the interests of a servant of his under sentence for murder, the jury in an Exchequer commission investigating the title to lands in Llangathen, near Llandeilo; his son John was further accused of assault and battery on the claimant to the lands.5

Vaughan was twice elected for his county, where his marriage into the house of Rice of Newton had enhanced his standing. He was elected to the 1576 session of the 1572 Parliament in place of his deceased father. At the beginning of the third session of of that Parliament his membership was challenged because he had been outlawed for debt, but a small and sympathetic committee consisting of the Speaker, Henry Knollys II and Henry Townshend excused him on the ground that the debt had been incurred as surety for a friend. Vaughan's brother-in-law Walter Rice succeeded him in the county representation in 1584. In his second Parliament Vaughan could have attended the subsidy committee appointed 26 Feb. 1593 and a legal committee appointed 9 Mar. His second marriage brought him little advantage, for Sir John Perrot was attainted in 1592. However, Vaughan found a powerful protector in the Earl of Essex, whose livery he wore, and who came to the defence of 'my servant' when in 1585 this 'affectionate follower' was denounced by the judges of the Carmarthen circuit for reprieving, on his patron's directions, a prisoner committed to his custody as sheriff. The Earl's intervention, however, came too late to save him from a Star Chamber fine for interference with the course of justice. In 1592 he was one of those from Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire commissioned by the Privy Council to root out recusancy and 'superstitious' practices in West Wales; four months later it came to light that he and several of his colleagues had not yet taken the oath of supremacy.6

In 1576 Walter Vaughan joined with others in petitioning for a free school at Carmarthen to replace an earlier one which had decayed. In the instrument granting the petition the Queen named the petitioners among the foundation wardens and governors of what still goes by the name of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School. Rent charges supporting the endowment were later challenged as an encroachment on common rights, which involved Vaughan's son Sir John in litigation 30 years later. Vaughan died intestate in 1598 and was succeeded by his son and heir John, afterwards Earl of Carbery.7

Ref Volumes: 1558-1603
Author: A.H.D.

His wife’s grandfather, Rhys ap Gruffydd , was a powerful Welsh landowner whose wealth derived from his grandfather, Rhys ap Thomas ‘s key support for Henry VII when he defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.  Rhys’s wealth brought him marriage into the prestigious Howard family. His wife, Katherine Howard ‘s father, Thomas Howard , was the grandfather of Anne Boleyn and great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I . He was such an important personage that he appears in two Shakespeare plays: “Richard III” and “Henry VIII”.  The Howards were key supporters of both the Plantagenet and Tudor Kings.  Thomas’s grandfather had married Margaret de Mowbray , a great, great, great granddaughter of Edward I by his wife Margeret de France. From this couple Walter Vaughan’s wife, Katherine verch Griffith ap Rhys claimed descent from William the Conqueror and Saint Louis IX , King of France.


General Notes: Wife - Katherine verch Griffith ap Rhys of Newton


Also known as Mary Rice. Her grandfather, Rhys ap Gruffydd , was a powerful Welsh landowner whose wealth derived from his grandfather, Rhys ap Thomas ‘s key support for Henry VII when he defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.  Rhys’s wealth brought him marriage into the prestigious Howard family. His wife, Katherine Howard ‘s father, Thomas Howard , was the grandfather of Anne Boleyn and great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I . He was such an important personage that he appears in two Shakespeare plays: “Richard III” and “Henry VIII”.  The Howards were key supporters of both the Plantagenet and Tudor Kings.  Thomas’s grandfather had married Margaret de Mowbray , a great, great, great granddaughter of Edward I by his wife Margeret de France. From this couple Walter Vaughan’s wife, Katherine verch Griffith ap Rhys claimed descent from William the Conqueror and Saint Louis IX , King of France.


General Notes: Child - John Vaughan 1st Earl of Carbery


He was the first Vaughan to settle at Golden Grove. He was a member of parliament for Carmarthenshire in 1601 and 1620-1622.
His biogrpahy is as follows:
Family and Education
b. c.1575, 1st s. of Walter Vaughan by his 1st w. Mary, da. of Griffith Rice of Newton. educ. Jesus, Oxf. 1592, aged 17; I. Temple 1596. m. (1) Margaret, da. of Gelly Meyrick, 1s 1da.; (2) Jane, da. of Sir Thomas Palmer of Wengham, Kent, wid. of Sir William Meredith of Leeds, Kent, s.p. suc. fa. 1598. Kntd. 1599; cr. Baron Vaughan [I] 1621, Earl of Carbery [I] 1628.1

Offices Held
Bailiff, Carmarthen 1598, mayor 1603; j.p. Carm. aft. 1601; commr. oyer and terminer, S. Wales 1601; sheriff, Carm. Nov. 1604-Feb. 1606; bailiff, Kidwelly 1608; comptroller, Prince of Wales's household 1618; commr. on moneys levied for Ireland, Carm. 1627; member, council in the marches of Wales 1633.2

Biography
Vaughan was heir to an estate estimated in 1601 at £800 a year; in George Owen's list of Carmarthenshire generosi a year or so later he stood second only to Sir Thomas Jones of Abermarlais, and by the end of his life Golden Grove had outstripped Abermarlais in the Carmarthenshire hierarchy, the primacy of the Vaughans remaining unchallenged through most of the seventeenth century. Within a year of succeeding his father, Vaughan accompanied Essex on his ill-omened Irish campaign, and was knighted by him. The tradition that the Queen 'disallowed' the honour, and that it was again conferred by Lord Deputy St. John in 1617, is contradicted by the consistent use of the title until it was superseded by the peerage; it is likely that the 1617 knight was the 'Captain Vaughan' who spent his life in Ireland, as soldier, planter, privy councillor and Parliament man, until long after the Carmarthenshire Member's peerage and even after his death.3

In 1601 Vaughan accused a fellow-magistrate in Star Chamber of 'unlawful affection' for recusants and affrays at the great sessions and Llandeilo market, and complained of the increase of popery in the area. These sound like defensive tactics, for the treason of Essex and his Welsh steward, Meyrick, made the latter's son-in-law vulnerable. In 1601-2 Vaughan was charged, in two other Star Chamber suits, with conspiring with Sir Thomas Jones to cheat a lunatic out of his lands, and with procuring the conveyance of a guest's patrimony by plying him with drink. But in the latter year he quarrelled with Jones over the manors of Hirfryn, Perfedd and Llandovery. These manors, once held by Abermarlais, had been granted by Elizabeth to their ancient lords the Audleys, and Lord Audley had conveyed them to Sir John's father; Sir John now accused Sir Thomas before the Exchequer court of interference with his manorial rights.4

More perilous accusations arose out of the Essex conspiracy. The fact that a few weeks before the revolt Vaughan's wife had conveyed her father's plate and chattels to her husband's house naturally aroused suspicion. He was even named among those present at the fateful meeting at Essex House where plans were laid, but a more credible account represents him as having 'turned back' on the way. At all events, before the end of February 1601 he was discharged 'without bonds, indictment, arraignment or fine'. He assured Cecil that the charges against him had been made in revenge for his severity towards recusants. Before autumn he was settled at Golden Grove, acknowledging Cecil's 'favours' and commending to him one of his many brothers, and in October he was entrusted with the raising of horse in Carmarthenshire to meet the Spanish landing in Ireland. In the same month he was elected knight of the shire for Carmarthenshire, which would have entitled him to sit on the main business committee for that Parliament (3 Nov.) and on the monopolies committee (23 Nov.). In the seventeenth century he was to obtain central office, and an Irish peerage. He died 6 May 1634.5

Ref Volumes: 1558-1603
Author: A.H.D.


General Notes: Child - Sir William Vaughan


Was from Tyr-y-coed in the parish of Llangendwrn, Carmarthenshire. He, also, had lands in Newfoundland. He was a highly educated poet and writer, with a religious/mystical bent. His best known work was "The Golden Fleece" published in 1626 and written in Newfoundland, making it one of the earliest works of English literature written in America. His religous/msytical bent is said to have started with the death of his first wife, when their house was struck by lightning in January 1608. In 1630 he wrote “Newlander’s Cure” in which he discussed the duel he believed hs great grandfather Hugh Vaughan had with Sir James Parker and further states that Hugh had died by the age of 50.  I think Sir William was in error about the duel. He probably read John Stow’s account in his book “Annales of England” of the duel that a different Hugh Vaughan participated in. Stow’s account was published in 1605 so Sir William might well have read it by 1630 and made a wrong assumption that the jouster was his great grandfather.


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Sir William Vaughan and Elizabeth verch David ap Robert

 




Husband Sir William Vaughan



 
         Born: 1577 - Carmarthenshire, Wales
   Christened: 
         Died: Aug 1641 - Carmarthenshire, Wales
       Buried:  - St. Cyndeyrn Church, Llangendeirne, Carmarthenshire, Wales



 
       Father: Walter Vaughan (      -1598)
       Mother: Katherine verch Griffith ap Rhys of Newton (      -Abt 1640)



 
     Marriage: 

 
 Other Spouse: Ann Christmas(Abt 1592-1672) 1 - Abt 1610 - Colchester, Essex, England



Wife Elizabeth verch David ap Robert



 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: Jan 1608 - Carmarthenshire, Wales
       Buried: 



Children



General Notes: Husband - Sir William Vaughan


Was from Tyr-y-coed in the parish of Llangendwrn, Carmarthenshire. He, also, had lands in Newfoundland. He was a highly educated poet and writer, with a religious/mystical bent. His best known work was "The Golden Fleece" published in 1626 and written in Newfoundland, making it one of the earliest works of English literature written in America. His religous/msytical bent is said to have started with the death of his first wife, when their house was struck by lightning in January 1608.


General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth verch David ap Robert


only child and heir of David ap Robert of Llangendeirn, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
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John Ventris

 




Husband John Ventris



 
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1 F Elizabeth Ventris



 
         Born: 1712 Whitby , Yorkshire, England
   Christened: 
         Died: 1785 - Whitby, Yorkshire, England
       Buried: 3 Mar 1785 - St Mary the Virgin, Whitby, Yorkshire
 
       Spouse: Francis Lee (1708-1760)
         Marr: 15 Aug 1736 St Mary the Virgin , Whitby, Yorkshire




General Notes: Child - Elizabeth Ventris


Her approximate birth year is established by her age set forth in the Yorkshire Burial record in the North Yorkshire County Record Office ref # N-PR-WH1-9 page 28. Whitby Parish records list two Elizabeth Ventris born about that time. However the one born to Nicholas Ventris in 1711 died in 1719. This means the correct one is the one born to John Ventris in 1720.
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Lord of Dinas Bran Gruffydd Vychan and Margaret Verch Gruffydd Ap Cadwgan

 




Husband Lord of Dinas Bran Gruffydd Vychan



 
         Born:  - Glyndyfrdwy
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       Father: Griffith Ap Madog Lord of Dinas Bran (Abt 1200-1269)
       Mother: Emma De Aldithey (1218-      )



 
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Wife Margaret Verch Gruffydd Ap Cadwgan



 
         Born:  - Eyton
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1 M Madoc Crypl Ap Gruffydd Vychan



 
         Born: 
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         Died: 1324
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       Spouse: Margaret Verch Rhys Vychan Ap Rhys Mechell (      -      )




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Griffith I Williams and Eva Verch Gruffydd Ap Dafydd Ap Tudur

 




Husband Griffith I Williams



 
         Born:  - Penrhyn, Llandegai, Caernarvonshire, Wales
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         Died: After 1353
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       Father: Heilwyn Ap Sir Tudur Ap Ednyfed Vychan (      -After 1281)
       Mother: Annes Verch Bleddyn Ap Owen Brogontyn (      -      )



 
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Wife Eva Verch Gruffydd Ap Dafydd Ap Tudur 4



 
         Born:  - penrhyn
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Children


1 M Gwillym Williams



 
         Born:  - Penrhyn, Llandegai, Caernarvonshire, Wales
   Christened: 
         Died: After 1389
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Iorwerth Y Penwyn and Angharad Verch Heilyn Ap Sir Tudur

 




Husband Iorwerth Y Penwyn



 
         Born:  - Bettws; p 376
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         Died: After 1343
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Wife Angharad Verch Heilyn Ap Sir Tudur 5



 
         Born:  - Nant and Llangynhafal
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       Father: Heilwyn Ap Sir Tudur Ap Ednyfed Vychan (      -After 1281)
       Mother: Annes Verch Bleddyn Ap Owen Brogontyn (      -      )




 
 Other Spouse: Dafydd Goch(      -      ) 5

Events

1. Alt. Birth: Anglesey, Wales.


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1 M David Llwyd Ap Iorwerth Y Penwyn



 
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         Died: After 1343 - P 376
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2 M Llewellyn Ddu Ap Iorwerth Y Penwyn 6



 
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3 M Goronwy Llwyd Ap Iorwerth Y Penwyn 6



 
         Born:  - Bettws
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       Spouse: Leuki Verch Madog Ap Einion Ap Iorwerth (      -      ) 6



4 M Iorwerth Ddu Ap Iorwerth Y Penwyn 6



 
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5 M Tegwared Ap Iorwerth Y Penwyn 6



 
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6 M Ieuan Ap Iorwerth Y Penwyn 6



 
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Lord Of Cydewain Cadfael Ynad and Arianwen Verch Iorwerth Ap Traharn Ap Iorwerth

 




Husband Lord Of Cydewain Cadfael Ynad 7



 
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         Died: Abt 1216
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Wife Arianwen Verch Iorwerth Ap Traharn Ap Iorwerth 7



 
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       Father: Iorwerth Ap Trahairn Ap Iorwerth (      -      ) 7
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1 M Samuel Ap Cadfael Ynad 7



 
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       Spouse: Eigwr Verch Madog Ap Cadwallawn Ap Madog (      -      ) 7




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Maelgwy Vychan and Angharad Verch Llewellyn

 




Husband Maelgwy Vychan



 
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         Died: 1257
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Wife Angharad Verch Llewellyn 8



 
         Born: Abt 1215 - Caernarvonshire, wales
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         Died: 1257
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       Father: Llewellyn Ap Iorwerth the Great (1173-1240) 9
       Mother: Joan Of England Plantagenet (Abt 1191-      ) 8





Children


1 F Ellen Verch Maelgwn



 
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       Spouse: Maredudd Ap Owain (      -1265)




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Prince of North Wales Ednyfed Vychan and Gwenllian Verch Lord Rhys Ap Gruffydd Ap Rhys

 




Husband Prince of North Wales Ednyfed Vychan



 
         Born:  - Penrhyn, Llandegai
   Christened: 
         Died: 1233 - Of Tregarnedd
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     Marriage: 

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1. Alt. Birth: Tregarnedd, ANglesey.




Wife Gwenllian Verch Lord Rhys Ap Gruffydd Ap Rhys



 
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       Father: Lord Rhys Ap Gruffydd Ap Rhys Ap Tudur Mawr (      -1197) 10
       Mother: Gwenllian Verch Madog Ap Meredydd (      -      ) 11





Children


1 M Grono Ap Ednyfed Vychan



 
         Born:  - Trecastell in Anglesey
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         Died: 1270
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       Spouse: Morfydd Verch Meyrick Ap Ithel (      -      )



2 F Gwladys Verch Ednyfed Vychan



 
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3 F Gwenlian Verch Ednyfed Vychan



 
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4 M Gruffydd Ap Ednyfed Vychan



 
         Born:  - Of Henglawdd, Denbigh Wales  p121
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       Spouse: Verch Howel Ap Evan Ap Trahaiarn Goch (      -      ) 12




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Adles Verch Richard Ap Cadwalladr Ap Griffith

 




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Wife Adles Verch Richard Ap Cadwalladr Ap Griffith



 
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       Father: Richard Ap Cadwalladr Ap Griffith Ap Cynan (      -      ) 13
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Children


1 M Heilwyn Ap Sir Tudur Ap Ednyfed Vychan



 
         Born:  - Penrhyn, Llandegai, Caernarvonshire, Wales
   Christened: 
         Died: After 1281
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Annes Verch Bleddyn Ap Owen Brogontyn (      -      )



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Sources


1 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 292.

2 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 197.

3 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 291.

4 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 186.

5 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 370.

6 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 376.

7 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 126.

8 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 178.

9 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 328 and 305.

10 j e griffiths pedigrees of anglesey and caernarvonshire families, j e griffiths, 301.

11 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 301.

12 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 121.

13 Griffith J.E. Pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families, 26.


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